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Original Sins Lost Slayer Serial Novel part 4
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Rating: 4.57/5 from 7 reviews The Series Creaks to a FinishChallanges !She is forced to face her most difficult challenge - destroying her friend and mentor, Giles. She finds herself living in a 25 year old buffy body while her soul is still 19 here buffy faces the hardest challanges yet ... "The stunning conclusion"The stunning conclusion of the 4 part book can be considered the best of all four. Christopher Golden continues to show what a imagination he has. The book continues from where it left off. Giles is missing and Buffy finds her lover Angel. When Buffy went missing Angel went looking for her and was captured. The fait he awaits is more pain that Buffy can handle. Buffy finally finds Giles. The book is so compelling. I actually felt a tug at my heartsrings when Xander met his dire demise. And when Wesley was dramitically killed. Buffy fights with Giles in a well described scene and Buffy wins. The book is both adventerous and thrilling and at the same time stunning. Buffy manages to return to her past but she must find a way to change what happened in Prophesies. I think this is the best book out of the four because it shows that Sunnydale has really gone to hell and Buffy must go back to stop this horrible future so she can be with her friends and everyone she loved will not be gone. Like her mother. The conclusion was well done. Christopher Golden did a fantastic job on the whole series of books. If you want to settle down and read a really good book about the Scoobies, fun times, bad times and very sad times then you have to read this book along with the first 3 parts. | ||||||||||||||||||
Also on the scene are her former friends - the powerful sorceress Willow (who plays the largest part in the story after Buffy herself), the hardened warrior Xander, and the werewolf Oz hovering between humanity and animalistic tendencies. Along with the Watcher's Council and the latest Slayer Anna Keui (who doesn't play any sort of meaningful part in the action) they go up against Giles and the demon-god Camazotz, previously a dangerous foe, now just a battery for the Kakchiquels (vampires that fed on his mystical energy). Despite a rather potent scene that has Buffy fighting between what Golden describes as "the two men she loved most" - the vampiric Giles and a trapped Angel, the final showdown with her former Watcher is somewhat anti-climatic, and all that follows with Willow and former-Slayer Lucy Hanover sending Buffy back into the past has absolutely no edge to it, simply because everybody *knows* that things will get back to normal. Such is the problem with writing a book set in an already-established plot line - you can't develop anybody or anything.
"The Lost Slayer" was a vaugely entertaining read, but after volume one, there was no way you could read them out of order without becoming utterly lost. I suggest the publication that has all four books in one volume so that one doesn't have to hunt all over the place for the next installment in the series (one of the things I hate about any kind of book that isn't self-contained). There's an interesting look in the future of what *could* one day happen, but nothing we haven't seen in episodes in television such as "The Wish" in Season Three, and eventually Golden's killing off of practically every character for no other reason but simply because he *could* got tiring. By the end, I was skim reading in order to get to the finish. By all means, give it a try, but don't feel bad if you have to return it to the library before you're done.