Alyrenee
Potential Slayer
Kwisatz Haderach
There was a little girl who had a little curl...
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Post by Alyrenee on Feb 26, 2007 18:35:36 GMT -5
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becky
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Post by becky on Feb 27, 2007 8:00:42 GMT -5
I have already read this book, and it is my favorite of all the Buffyverse novels. I love finding out more about the mysterious Faith.
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Post by gwen raiden on Feb 27, 2007 12:09:40 GMT -5
Hi Alyrenee - How long do we have to read this before the discussion? I need to get out and get it first  |
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Post by buffysmglover on Feb 27, 2007 15:27:35 GMT -5
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Alyrenee
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Kwisatz Haderach
There was a little girl who had a little curl...
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Post by Alyrenee on Feb 27, 2007 21:37:39 GMT -5
awesome thanks for posting that interview..i will add it to the list in the first post...
I think we can start discussing right away...i am only about 30 pages into the book at this point...and plan to work it into my podcast in 50 pg intervals....so for everyone starting this now....don't talk about events past the 50 pg mark for these first two weeks....that way people won't get spoiled.
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Post by buffyfannumerouno on Mar 4, 2007 21:31:54 GMT -5
Hopefully I will have time to start reading this, I bought it and just haven't had the time to start reading it yet.
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Alyrenee
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Kwisatz Haderach
There was a little girl who had a little curl...
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Post by Alyrenee on Mar 5, 2007 8:02:12 GMT -5
The reading goes pretty fast I am hoping to finish up my 50 pgs this evening. Hope you like it...
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Alyrenee
Potential Slayer
Kwisatz Haderach
There was a little girl who had a little curl...
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Post by Alyrenee on Mar 11, 2007 2:49:52 GMT -5
Okay here is the review I did for my podcast...would love to hear what other folks thought about the book. To listen to the cast go to undeadamerica.blogspot.comPgs 1-51 Wow. This is a very different buffy book so far. I was initially struck with the tone shift. There is far more violence, sex, stong adult content etc than I have ever seen in a Buffy or Angel book.…and its also pretty honest about the lives of many high school girls. In the first fifty pages there has not been anything supernatural beyond a creepy dream or two. Having the tale be epistolary is not only a radical structure shift from previous books, but its also a major shift in voice and perspective. We only get a view of the story through faith’s eyes. So then as a reader, you have to sort through what you believe is true. How much of what faith writes in her diary is what really happened and how much is what she wants to believe is true. The most glaring example of this is the fight in the locker room where she blacks out. When faith relays the meeting with the principle in which she was expelled for fighting, she initially says it was self-defense and she was protecting her friend. But then Tommy tells faith he is scared of her and scared for her and faith does not understand. It is only in faith’s passing comment about Sam Flynn being in intensive care with a broken arm and a skull fracture that we begin to get a full picture of what really happened and the intensity of faith’s violence. The story unfolds like a mystery at points. We are left to piece together the narrative story through faith’s journal entries. I am enjoy this task immensely. In many ways, the reader is in a similar role as faith’s counselor, V. We are confidants for the young slayer but we have the added advantage of knowing where all of this leading. Yet it still does not prevent me from rooting for the troubled boston slayer in this tale. But then I have always been a huge faith fan. Mr Levy has painted a very troubled life for our girl Faith. Her mother is neglectful and drunk with a series of questionable men in her life. There is some indication that these men have attempted to molest Faith in the past. It also seems like faith has experience physical abuse at the hands of both her mother and perhaps some her boyfriends. This would support faith’s mistrust of adults and her violent instincts. She has had no role models in her life and no adults until her social worker Vt have ever taken a positive interest in her. She clearly is an outcast at school. She’s a bad girl. Faith is clearly smart but does not seem to do well at school. She lacks self-confidence and overcompensates in risqué behavior. She has sex with boys who care nothing for her and vice-versa. Sex is devoid of emotion and is just another thing to do to pass the time or as an attempt to just feel something…anything. Her only friend is tommy…also an outcast at school due to his homosexuality and association with faith. When he ends their friendship after the events in the locker room fight, faith is completely alone. She is also removed from the troubled home situation and dropped into a suspicious foster home with creepy American Gothic foster parents, the Joneses, who use their wards as slave labor. It is then that her childhood imaginary friend, Alex, starts appearing in her dreams again. Alex is a representation of all the good and innocence of childhood that faith never had. Onto speculation: When we first read of Faith’s nightmares, I immediately thought she was getting the prophetic slayer dreams. I suppose it’s a little early to speculate at this point but I am sure we will see more of this soon. There is also clearly more to the American Gothics than meets the eye. They are hiding something..maybe about their children. I am sure it ain’t good and knowing that this is the buffy-verse…it probably has a distinct demon aftertaste to it. I am hoping we will get to meet fiath’s watcher, Diana dormer is her name I believe, and perhaps Kakistos will show up towards the end. For now I am enjoying this author’s take on these formative years for Faith the Vampire Slayer. |
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Post by ilovewillow on May 12, 2007 17:51:47 GMT -5
Ooh I like the fact that there's a thread like this, could we have more threads dedicated to more Buffy novels? Anyway, I liked the book, I thought it was realistic to what Faith would have experienced back in Boston. I liked the childhood depictions also. <33 |
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