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The Vampire: The Cordelia Collection Volume 1 by Nancy Krulik check out website: www.simonsays.co.uk
This novelisation is an attempt to
take three plots over the first three series of 'Buffy' and show how they affected
Cordelia. In other words they follow her development from self-centred bitch queen
to a living-breathing girl who has to exist in the real world. The plots of choice
are 'Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight', 'Some Assembly Required' and 'Homecoming'. Throughout these Cordelia develops until, when she is mistaken for Faith
and caught up in a 'slayerfest', she comes into her own becoming the character
she will be in the spin-off programme 'Angel'. The three segments follow
the original television script with description of the characters when necessary.
There are framing sequences where Cordelia sips her mocha and contemplates where
she is up to now and that's about it. It is readable, just, and coming in at 178 pages is not overly long. However, I think the readers deserve better than this cheaply made rehash of plot from the show. There are better novels in the 'Buffy' genre but most are purely to make money out of the audience that will buy all that is 'Buffy'. More effort needed, see me after school. Sue
Davies
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OTHER REVIEWS - February 2003
NEW NOVELS The
Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh Buffy
The Vampire: The Cordelia Collection Volume 1 by Nancy Krulik Tourniquet
Heart edited by Christopher C. Teague The
Devil In Green (Book One of The Dark Age) by Mark Chadbourn Angel: The Longest Night by Pierce Askegren Dark
Angel: Before The Dawn by Max Allen Collins Guilty
Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton The
Divine Comedies: Here Comes The Sun & Odds And Ends by Tom Holt The
Drawing Of The Dark by Tim Powers. Fantasy Masterworks # 33 The
Far Enough Window: The Reclaiming Of Fairyland by John Grant and illustrated
by Ron Tiner The
Ruins of Ambrai (Exiles Volume 1) by Melanie Rawn The
Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson (SF Masterworks # 51) HARDBACKS INTO PAPERBACKS Wizard's
Funeral (The Red Pavilions Book Two) by Kim Hunter Wanderers
And Islanders (Legends Of The Land Book One) by Steve Cockayne Effendi (The Second Arabesk) by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
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We
cannot get enough of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and this particular
novel is aimed at the younger viewers and readers.
It
centres on the lovely Cordelia, the shallow homecoming queen, who
eventually becomes part of Buffy's entourage and finally is mature
enough to cope with the disastrous financial downfall of her parents,
leave Sunnydale and make her way in Los Angeles.
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