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Keith R.A. DeCandido, who
worked on The Watcher's Guide turns his hand to the
fiction side of Buffy with these three
novelised episodes from Buffy's first two seasons.
It's the usual Pocket Books'
format of three episodes revolving around a particular character, some
linking material (which somehow reminded me of The
Rachel Papers - probably the fact that it's supposed to take place on
one night while the rest of the book is a look back at previous events), and eight pages of familiar photos.
This time it's
Xander Harris who takes
centre stages with adaptations of Teacher's Pet, Inca Mummy Girl and
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
All three episodes also
feature our hero's fumbling attempts with the opposite sex - Ms French in Teacher's
Pet, Ampata in Inca Mummy Girl and the female half of
Sunnydale in Bewitched...
Neither of the first two
episodes can be ranked amongst the best Buffy
episodes, so they don't really lose anything on the printed page. And,
there's the advantage that it possible to get through them in novelised form
quicker than watching them, unfortunately, the superior Bewitched... doesn't come off quite as
well.
Still, at 227 pages, this is
longer than some of the other novelisations and there's the odd link here
and there across the stories that wasn't in the televised episodes.
However, as with the other novelisations, if you've got them on tape and you're not a
completist, then
you're not really missing anything by giving The Xander
Years, Volume 1 a miss.
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THE
XANDER YEARS, VOL. 1
Written by KEITH R.A. DeCANDIDO
POCKET BOOKS
$4.99
Rating
6/10
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