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Title: Obsidian Fate by Diana G. Gallagher ISBN: 0-671-03929-6 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (32 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: At the best, Okay...
Comment: This book was...in one word...disappointing. After the long awaited release of "A" Buffy book, I was extremely excited to see this one in my local Barnes & Noble. Directly when I got home, I started reading it. Almost all Buffy books start out with some history, and a droning explanation of the plot to come, so when I started Obsidian Fate, I thought that after I got past the first three chapters, I would get to some exciting action. However, not to add upon the fact that the chapters were way too long for the ideas put into them (ten different settings and people in ONE chapter, what English teacher did you have Gallagher?), it did not get more exciting until the last three, maybe four chapters. Gallagher got all the characters wrong. Willow was too much of a ditz, Cordelia was too involved in Buffy's and the Slayerettes' lives, Giles was just not Giles (I cant explain it), and Angel was definitely too involved. If you've noticed, Gallagher, Angel (even in the middle of the third season) has not even been in a quarter of the episodes. I read most books in two to three days. This one took me 3 weeks to finish, because I was so uninterested. Yeah, and another thing: Buffy and Giles are not that oblivious! Someone that is so sweet and innocent, then suddenly starts acting seductive and snippy, right after an Aztec god that's looking for slaves he can control is just set free, um DUH!!! Who do you think it is? Jeez, Gallagher, we know you were just trying to give some suspense value, but you ended up giving us the Teletubbies with an Aztec god. All and all? Beginning (as in, from page 1-250) weak. Gets a 1, Middles/end gets a 3, And ending gets a zerio because of the utter corniness (for lack of a better word) of it. Complete waste of time. Dont even bother. And for the publishing company: Dont hier Gallagher...
Rating: 3
Summary: A So-So Scoobie Tale
Comment: While the author generally has a good hold of the voices of the characters, and some of the dialogue made me smile, this novel is not one of the best. The problem comes in the plot. It's quite dull. The developement is mostly logical, but threat is not always intriguing. The plot made me want to give up on the book, but the dialogue made me want to continue reading. I expect this author could do much better with a different topic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Aztec Hell
Comment: Diana Gallagher is the best writer of the Buffy books (everyone's overrated opinion of Holder and Golden notwithstanding), and this is the best of her titles. I was ready to give up on the series altogether, until I read this one.
Most of the Buffy authors simply hew to the T.V. formula, making their entries nothing more than an episode that wasn't filmed. Such an approach is certainly acceptable, but it's much more interesting when the author can develop the characters in a more mature light, as Gallagher does.
The only criticism I have of this book is that its apocalpytic ending is a slight bit over the top, but it's quite satisfying for all of that. Buffy is up against Tezcatlipoca, the "Smoking Mirror" of Aztec mythology, who seduces the weak and the jealous into assisting his plans for recreating the world in his own image. Gallagher presents an extremely well-drawn loser character prefiguring the T.V. series' Jonathan, who manages to be both evil and genuinely pathetic.
Recommended for fans, and as a starter book to interest the newbies.
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Title: Resurrecting Ravana by Ray Garton ISBN: 0671026364 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Evil That Men Do by Nancy Holder ISBN: 0671026356 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sins of the Father by Christopher Golden ISBN: 0671039288 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Paleo by Yvonne Navarro ISBN: 0743400348 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Return to Chaos by Craig Shaw Gardner ISBN: 0671021362 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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