- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; Television tie-in edition edition (23 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671021354
- ISBN-13: 978-0671021351
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 338,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A travelling Renaissance fair comes to Sunnydale. Buffy and her friends are charmed by a sad-eyed boy named Roland, who serves as the court jester. But Roland is not quite human - and destined to become the vampire slayer's mortal adversary.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder write the best Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, not just because they are good writers but because they completely understand both the characters and the mythos of the Slayer. Even though the stories are set in Sunnydale, Golden and Holder have a keen appreciation for the Old World-ness of the Slayer's world. This is not just a question of Giles coming from England, Angel from Ireland and Jenny from the land of the gypsies, but rather a recognition that when you are talking about ancient evil you have to skip across the ocean because that is where our sense of vampires, demons and things that go bump in the night originates. "Child of the Hunt" represents this sensibility quite nicely.
Buffy and her cohorts are enjoying a traveling Renaissance fair that has come to Sunnydale, but while they enjoy most of what they see they do not like the way the visitors treat Roland, their court jester. That is not the only significant development in town, for roaming the countryside are the minions of the Wild Hunt, in the service of the Erl King and with a taste for flesh. Of course there is a strange and terrible secret that links Roland to the eerie visitors. The Slayer wants to get involved, but Buffy must beware the awful curse, which dictates that no one can see the face of the leader of the Wild Hunt and live. Unless, that is, they join the hunt and take an oath to serve the Erl King.
This is not a story about the end of life as we know it, like a Buffy season finale or Golden and Holder's justly celebrated Gatekeeper Trilogy, but then that is not the point. This is a more intimate story, where Buffy is fighting to save Roland more so than she is to stop the Erl King. Consequently, there is a complexity here that she just do not find in your average Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel. This is a serious story, with less of the humorous lines and cultural allusions than you find in most Buffy novels (usually to excess, I must add), that captures the spirit of ancient, Old World evil that provides such a provocative counterpoint to the essentially Post-Modern Slayer (there's a dissertation topic if ever I heard one). Actually, all you need to know is that if you are like Buffy then you should just read all of Golden and Holders novels. There is ample reason to believe they are genetically incapable of writing anything less than a great one. When you go to download a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" book, make it easier on yourself and look for anything they have written, either in tandem or individually.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I now have most of the Buffy books and i must say that this is probably the best one. The story is both imaginative and gripping. It revolves around a mystical hunt who take the souls of the weak, helpless and anyone who looks at them. The end of the book is great but i wont spoil it sufice to say that there is a twist to the tale both near the end and right at the end. If you have not got any of the books but llove the series i would say go for this one. But be warned it occurs after the end of the second series and is actually in the third series content although it is not an episode. So what more can i say this book is excellent.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Would make a great Buffy film (Cert 18). Darker than the series but the characters are spot on. Not recommended for younger Buffy fans.
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Don't even bother!
I ordered this book becuse I love the program (who wouldn't) and because evryone I've talked to has said that this is the best one. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2000
Excellent - Do NOT miss!
I have all the Buffy books and even though most of them are very good this has got to be the best one up to now. Must not miss it - could not put it down.
Published on 4 Feb 2000
One word: ACE
Just read it Chris Golden & Nancy Holder are the best Buffy fiction authors around
Published on 11 Jan 2000
Incredible.
This is definitely the best Buffy book I have read. With unusual twists all the way through the story, plus the usual charm of Buffy books this is an amazing book. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 1999
Dark sometimes disturbing but excellent
This so far my favourite of the Buffy books, exceptionally well written the characterisations are spot on. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 1999
This was a brilliant novel again by Nancy Holder.
I thought this novel was great. And it was good to see Buffy and Angel sort of back toghether again after their earlier break up. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 1999
Pretty Good!
This book started well and ended well and the middle was good too, if a little long winded. Once I started reading, I could hardly put it down.
Published on 16 July 1999
This is the BEST Buffy book yet!
I was absolutley amazed by this Buffy book. It is very original but could easily be an hour long episode. Read more
Published on 4 July 1999
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