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[doyle]

My adventures with the Buffy tie-in novels continue apace. Thanks to my local library and a couple of charity shops (for 40p I don't *care* how bad the book is) I have in my grubby paws Seven Crows, These Our Actors, The Xander Years (1 AND 2!), The Angel Chronicles 2, City Of, Stranger to the Sun, Unnatural Selection, Resurrecting Ravana, Shakedown, Oz: Into the Wild, Pretty Maids All in a Row, Unseen, and Endangered Species. That's a stack of paperbacks to go with me to Belfast this week, then.

I've read one chapter of Resurrecting Ravana (by Ray Garton) and it's fairly painful going, what with the stilted, redundant writing.

She slammed the stake into its throat. The hellhound sat up with a startled growl. The stake remained in Buffy's hand... with the silver pointed tip pointing at her. She'd stabbed the hellhound in the throat with the wrong end of the stake.

I love how in the last sentence he recaps what she just did, the fact that it was to a hellhound, and that it was with a stake. Because we wouldn't otherwise know that from the previous two sentences. I'm having flashbacks to Sunset Beach (cue the sound effect of flashbacking)

Seven Crows (John Vornholt) is a book I should like - it's Rileycentric - and at least it acknowledges it completely screws with canon. The preface says it takes place in 'an alternate season 7', by which they mean the summer after Grave, except Angel's not stuck under the sea and Cordelia and Connor... well, so far, they don't seem to exist, but maybe they get a mention later on. Bored with the first couple of pages, I flipped ahead, read the section where Buffy whispers "goodnight, sweet prince" after Angel leaves their motel room, and hurt myself giggling.

These Our Actors - it's centred around Spike and Willow, set in season 5 but with a good chunk of it set prior to Spike's turning. so far, I'm loving it. Fingers crossed.

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

"These Are Actors" is one of the few books I could honestly say that I enjoyed. The author is Dori from BAPS and you can tell she actually watches the show and pays attention. Kudos for her.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I love that it has Willow taking the drama class we heard mentioned. It's so obvious the author's a fan of the show (whereas with Seven Crows, I'm also certain that John Vornholt has never seen an episode of Angel)

[liliaeth]

or Buffy for that matter.
If you read Seven Crows without watching the show, you wouldn't even know that Spike exists. Or Cordy, or anything other than B/A.

Vornholt seems to have little or no clue of what Buffy is about and just wrote something that had little or no actual connection to either shows...

(well he might, just might, have seen one or two eps with Riley, but I'd say that's the most of it.)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I just wish they'd get people who are actually fans of the shows to write these things...