Book Reviews *=ok, you can miss it **=Pretty good ***=Check it out at the
library ****Go buy it. *****=Why aren't you reading it right now!
Teen Books
Movie Tie In: Good novelization of the movie. **
The Harvest: Good novelization of first episodes
Halloween Rain: I don't remember reading this one. It's about a demon
scarecrow pumpkin dude. **
Coyote Moon: This one was fairly good I think. It was about carney coyote
people who seduce the scoobies.
Night of the Living Rerun: I loved this one. Buffy dreams that she's this
slayer from Salem 1692 named Sarah Dinsdale. ****
Blooded: Didn't Read
Visitors: This one was an ok read. It was about these wierd student teachers
who come to Sunnydale and lead to mischief. **
Unnatural Selection: I loved this one. It was more Willow related about fairy
changeling babies. ****
The Power of Persuasion: I like this one because it's about some minor Gods.
It's one of the better teen books. ***
Deep Water: Didn't Read
Here Be Monsters: It was a good book. If I remember it was about some family
vampires who are insane. **
Ghoul Trouble: This one was ok. It was about some skanky ghoul band chicks
that seduced Oz and Xander. *
Doomsday Deck: One of my favorite teen books. It's more creative than the
others and very creepy. ***
T he Angel Chronicles Volumes 1-3: Good novelization **
The Willow Files Volumes 1+2: Good novelization with some cute intros *
The Xander Years Volumes 1+2: Good novelization with cute intros **
How I Survived My Summer Vacation Volume 1: I liked this one. It was a bunch
of Buffy short stories that take place after season 1. I think they might try
to do it for each summer. You can see what happened over the summer. ****
The Faith Trials Volume 1: Haven't Ready yet.
Adult Books
Child of The Hunt: I like this one. The characters return in other books. The
books are like a different entity from the show. Like on Roswell. It's a
bunch of ghost hunter people. And if I remember a weird carnival. **
Return To Chaos: I forget about this one. I read them awhile ago. I read so
many. It was ok though,
the Gatekeeper Trilogy: Out of The Madhouse, Ghost Roads, Sons of Entropy: I
loved these. They're my favorites. They have a ton of stuff going on and they
take place in Boston. But beware the trilogies leave you hanging. It's
torture! *****
Obsidian Fate: This one was cool. My friend borrowed it and never returned
it. It was about the Atzec. History Lesson!***
Immortal: This is a good book. I got the paperback version. It's about this
evil vampire named Veronique. Not a bad read.**
Sins of the Father: Another favorite because Pike returns. We all remember
Pike from the movies.*** Jealously from Angel. Hehe
Resurrecting Ravana: This one was ok. If I remember it was an evil guidance
councilor. But that could be Prime Evil too. *
Prime Evil: One of the ones to avoid. I didn't really like this one. It's
about this witchy lady who tries to get Willow to join her.*
The Evil That Men Do: This was a good one. It's kinda sad by the title you
can tell. I liked the ancient Rome stuff. ****
Paleo: One of my favs. It's about dinosaurs and it's mostly an Oz/Buffy book.
It was less morbid and a lot Jurassic park.****
Pretty Maids All in a Row: Didn't go in sync with the show but I love it.
It's pretty graphic book about Spike and Drusilla in the 40's. I love Spike
so yah!*****
Revenant: This was a nice book. No particular reason. It was just well
written.***
The Book of Fours: I didn't like this one that much. This one jumped around
way to much and you're lost for most of the novel trying to figure out who's
who. **
The Unseen Trilogy: The Burning : Pretty good. Like watching simultaneous episodes. Can't wait to find out what happens! ****
The Unseen Trilogy: Door to Alternity: It was better than the first and it all started to make sense. I can't wait for the next one. ****
The unseen Trilogy: the Road Home: Loved it more than the first 2! (Maybe cos it got more Spike and Faith.) You have to read it! *****
The 4 Slayer Novels (Serial): Yuck season 4. Spike dies. Don't read them. They are bad. *
Tempted Champions: It's okay. It's not very exciting but it isn't bad. **
The Wisdom of War: Kinda drawn out. A little lengthy. Not enough Spike. But there is Faith. Good but not very exciting. Spike has sex with a nasty water eely demon thing. I'll give it **1/2.
Angel
City Of: Good novelization of the first episode**
Not Forgotten: A good Angel Book about immigrants and a really scary demon.
** Redemption: A lot like that episode last year when Angel became Angelus
without the Angelus. Just the Hollywood actress deal. It was pretty good. **
Close to the Ground: One of the better Angel books.***
Shakedown: I really liked this one. It's kind of funny about some rock
demons.****
Hollywood Noir: This one was ok. It was less vampireish. It was about a
resurrected private investigator.**
Avatar: This one was good. It was about an online demon guy. ***
Soul Trade: I loved this one. One of the better ones. Also helps that the writer lives in the next town from me. I plan on stalking him. j/k. It's really different and the ending is really sweet. ****
Bruja: Maybe the best Angel book so far. Mel Odom does nice work .It's along one which I love cos it continues and it's great cos everything makes sense in the end like a good mystery novel. Definitely read this one. *****
The Summoned: Read it. Don't rmeember much, But I remember it being good.****
Haunted: Not bad. Kinda not that exciting. The explanation is kinda weird. ***
Angel: The Longest Night Vol. 1: Very cool short stories even if they don't match up very well. They follow the gang on Winter Solstice and the stories are very creative. ****
Image: Creative. Fun. ***
Impressions: Do not touch at any price. Doesn't capture Angel's essence at all, boring and without supense. No stars.
Vengeance: Mediocre. A little mysterious but the concept was lacking. **
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