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 Verfasst am: Mo Aug 29, 2005 12:20 pm Titel: Buch: "Queen of Slayers" |
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Seit einiger Zeit gibt es ja eine virtuelle 8. Staffel in Buchform, geschrieben von Nancy Holder.
Hab in einem anderen Forum eine Kurzzusammenfassung gelesen, bei der sich mir alles zusammengezogen hat. Und ich war sehr froh, dass Buch nicht bestellt zu haben.
Aber wie sieht's mit euch aus. Schon wer gelesen? Und wenn ja, was haltet ihr davon?
Mfg jaret 
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| Verfasst am: Mo Aug 29, 2005 1:03 pm Titel: |
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Nee, noch nicht gelesen. Gibt es das Buch in deutsch... oder wieder nur auf englisch? Wenn es das Buch in deutsch gibt, ann werde ich es mir vielleicht kaufen.
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| Verfasst am: Mo Aug 29, 2005 2:34 pm Titel: |
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Hi!
also, ich hab auch schon einiges über das buch gelesen.. aber bestellt hab ichs mir noch nicht..
hier die beschreibung von amazon
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No vacation. No benefits. And the only retirement is an early death.
With the closing of the Hellmouth and the awakening of hundreds of potential slayers, Buffy Summers thought she had overturned the Slayer's self-sacrifice and earned herself a much-deserved break. But the thrill of victory is short-lived. The Forces of Darkness are not ones to graciously accept defeat, and the collective rage unites disparate and powerful parties more eager than ever to reclaim dominance.
Willow's magickal distribution of the slayer essence left girls across the world discovering their latent power. Giles races to reorganize the now much-needed Watchers Council, and the Scoobies relocate to Europe. And there in Rome, Buffy is drawn to the Immortal -- a charismatic, if inscrutable, figure. But then comes word that a number of the fresh slayers are being coerced to join an army of slayers -- governed by the mysterious "Queen of the Slayers," an awesome evil determined to claim the intoxicating slayer essence for herself.
Xander is sent to Africa to learn more about the origin of the slayer essence. Instead, he returns to report that, alarmingly, there's not enough good in the world to counteract the overabundance of evil, and that the deciding apocalypse is drawing much too near. Alliances are formed and loyalties betrayed as it comes down to slayer versus slayer, leading to an ultimate battle of champions -- from Buffy's past and present. And then an unimaginable gift arrives... |
und hier eine detaillierte kritik die bei amazon.com stand
| abt1950 hat folgendes geschrieben: | I wanted to like this book. I really did. The idea of a post-Sunnydale Buffy adventure was pure joy to this Buffy addict. Holder is reputed to be one of the better Buffy novelists, so I figured "Queen of the Slayers" was worth a read. It wasn't.
"Queen of the Slayers" begins immediately after the destruction of the Sunnydale Hellmouth, as the few survivors are leaving the scene of the battle. They think they're home free, but--surprise!-- another apocalypse is brewing. After a few preliminary adventures, the group disperses to where they're needed--Faith, Robin, and a changing cast of new Slayer cannon fodder to the Cleveland Hellmouth; Giles to do damage control at the reconstituted Watchers Council; and Buffy et al. to Rome, where she oversees the training of the new Slayers gathering under the auspices of the Immortal. While there she must deal with a personality cult of "Queen Buffy," her growing attraction to and suspicion of the Immortal, the rise of an evil "Queen of the Slayers" and prevent the next apocalypse as well. To say she has her hands full is an understatement.
The book's strength is the way it combines its story of post-Sunnydale Buffy with the events of Angel, Season Five, adding detail to the little bits we were given then. There were also occasional flashes of humor reminiscent of the series. Unfortunately, these aren't enough to overcome the book's problems. Holder's prose tends toward the pedestrian, with too many patches of "this happened and then this and then this" gliding over events that should have be described more fully. Frankly, if the book's length were an issue, I would rather have less going on but have it handled better. "Queen of the Slayers" reads like a combination of several free-standing novels condensed into one. The villains were over-the-top, but they lacked the complexity of the best Buffyverse villains. Almost everyone of any importance to the Scoobies makes an appearance, which makes everything just a bit too tidy. As for the Immortal, this supposedly charismatic character comes across as pretty bland, and Holder manages to destroy any potential he might have had as a player in an ongoing Buffyverse.
Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on Holder, since I don't know what kind of restrictions she was given by her publishers. When you write a media tie-in book, the characters are not your own and you can't always do with them as you wish. As another reviewer noted, part of the problem with this novel is that it's written as a Young Adult novel, and complexities of plot and character are "dumbed down" to the supposed level of a YA reader. This "dumbing down" make it difficult to do justice to the characters Joss Whedon created, and it isn't even necessary. The best YA books can and do deal with difficult themes--Holly Black's "Tithe," for example deals with some very dark issues in a sophisticated way. Much of Buffy's appeal has been the intelligence with which the shows were written. Unfortunately, "Queen of the Slayers" doesn't reflect this. My suggestion--take a pass on this book and read some fan fic instead. Some of it's better written.
P.S. A note to the book's editors: you don't put someone "enthrall"-- you put them "in thrall." |
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jaret
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| Verfasst am: Mi Aug 31, 2005 1:04 pm Titel: |
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@Marina:
Den Artikel hab ich irgendwo im Buffy-Online-Forum gefunden. Hat aber massive Spoiler, also falls du dir das Buch kaufen willst, vielleicht nicht lesen.
Mfg jaret
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