Post by Charlynn on Dec 16, 2010 23:14:35 GMT -5
Night of the Living Rerun
The second of the first two books from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Volume One that I previously skipped was by Arthur Byron Cover, and it pitted Buffy against her famed nemesis The Master again. In this story, The Master collected spirits from 17th century Salem to infiltrate the bodies of those close to Buffy, hoping that the spirits would re-enact the last events of their previous lives which were a series of actions that led to a ritual to raise the ultimate evil. Although I felt that this plot was developed more than the previous book, both of them lacked that certain Buffy-esque feel. There was a lack of metaphors with deeper meaning to the supernatural mysteries, and the dialogue was not as quick and zippy as it was on the show. With that said, though, speaking as someone who writes for the fandom, Buffy is not an easy show to emulate. For basic, beginner Buffy the Vampire Slayer stories, especially for those of the younger spectrum of YA readers, these would be good books to introduce the genre (and Buffy characters) with, I think.
The second of the first two books from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Volume One that I previously skipped was by Arthur Byron Cover, and it pitted Buffy against her famed nemesis The Master again. In this story, The Master collected spirits from 17th century Salem to infiltrate the bodies of those close to Buffy, hoping that the spirits would re-enact the last events of their previous lives which were a series of actions that led to a ritual to raise the ultimate evil. Although I felt that this plot was developed more than the previous book, both of them lacked that certain Buffy-esque feel. There was a lack of metaphors with deeper meaning to the supernatural mysteries, and the dialogue was not as quick and zippy as it was on the show. With that said, though, speaking as someone who writes for the fandom, Buffy is not an easy show to emulate. For basic, beginner Buffy the Vampire Slayer stories, especially for those of the younger spectrum of YA readers, these would be good books to introduce the genre (and Buffy characters) with, I think.