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Merchandise: The Book Of Fours 
- Added on: January 28, 2004
- Last Edited on: June 20, 2006
- Filed under: Books
The Box Says:
The third Buffy adult hardcover fills in a missing link: the Slayer who died to make Buffy the Chosen One. When an old classmate of Buffy’s in LA is killed, and Willow is severely injured in a car accident, both in the space of one week, the Slayer must yet again face the vulnerabilities of her mortal friends. At the same time, from a place of nightmares - which Buffy and Faith share - a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off a quartet of disasters. Earth, air, fire and water - each represented in the dreams by a primitive figure carrying a box moulded from skin and bone. Faith thinks she recognises the box. Research leads Giles to the Watchers’ Diaries, where he learns that the last Slayer to encounter a similar box was one named India Cohen...Buffy’s immediate predecessor. Buffy, who strangely has never considered the Slayer whose death activated her own term, is eager to contact India’s Watcher, Kit Bothwell. Kit, in turn, is excited at the prospect of working with two simultaneous Slayers. Over the years, he has honed his sorcery skills, and he thinks he can bring Buffy in communication with India, among others. And this begins a journey through history that forces Buffy to orient herself on a continuum against the evil that predates even humanity itself…
We think:
This could have been SO much better. I am NOT a fan of Nancy Holder. She may be able to write Buffy...but she can't write Faith. She doesn't even know Faith that well. There's a plot hole you can drive a truck through and it is NEVER redressed, which is very annoying. She has Faith walking around with half her face hanging off for a while too. Just because Faith has her own dress-sense and lives in that flea pitt of a motel, does NOT mean that she's happy enough NOT to go to a doctor and NOT change wiffy clothes! It does NOT mean she lays every guy she sees, either!
The story itself is actually interesting, but if you're a pure Faith fan like me, the way Faith conducts herself throughout the book is going to bug BIG TIME.
More a thing for Buffy fans, not pure Faith fans.
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