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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
More satisfying than The Secret History, if only because it is entirely concerned with familiar Twin Peaks faces and not retro-fitting historical UFO lore with a TP connection. Fills in some blanks between the two series (Where's Donna? What kept Ed and Norma from getting together during the intervening 25 years?) and fixes some discrepancies created by the Secret History (why did SH say Norma's mom died in the early 80s when she showed up in the original series? Did Annie get written out of the narrative altogether?) but creates at least one new one (Annie was born in 1973 per the Final Dossier, but is in her early 20s in the original series, set in 1989). An autopsy performed by Albert in 1989 (I won't say whose) is filled with anachronistic language like "trigger warning" and "craft brewery" (or did Albert also spend some time "unstuck in time"?).
Your big questions from the new series (what's up with Audrey? what's the deal with the final episode?) are not authoritatively answered here, but you will receive some gentle nudging towards Frost's preferred reading of events.
In all, a pleasing - if very brief (Goodreads suggests this is 176 pages, as a librarian I catalogued it at 137, with a small handful of unnumbered pages) - final(?) glance at this universe for fans, though as with the Secret History calling it a "novel" is a bit charitable.
Your big questions from the new series (what's up with Audrey? what's the deal with the final episode?) are not authoritatively answered here, but you will receive some gentle nudging towards Frost's preferred reading of events.
In all, a pleasing - if very brief (Goodreads suggests this is 176 pages, as a librarian I catalogued it at 137, with a small handful of unnumbered pages) - final(?) glance at this universe for fans, though as with the Secret History calling it a "novel" is a bit charitable.
Between three and four stars. Although I still wish this would have been a richer telling of the events in Twin Peaks, it filled in a lot of gaps and helped me be okay with the bothersome moments in the new series. Regardless of explanation, I will forever be pissy about how vile they made Audrey in the reboot, but at least I have a bridge to what led her there.
dark
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
A worthwhile expansion of Season Three of Twin Peaks -- not necessarily revealing anything new so much as shading in some of the background. Okay, to be fair, it DOES answer some questions -- where was Donna this whole time? What's Audrey's deal? What happened to Harry? -- but the BIG questions from the show... those are left, quite pointedly, up to you. There's some development that does happen here, particularly in the last few entries, but it keeps things unclear and that's for the best. As I was reading this, it did the best thing that a tangential literary addition can do for a TV series: it made me recall how much I loved the show, and made me just want to watch it over again. Again.
Another fun read for a Twin Peaks fan. Not quite as much fun of a read as The Secret History of Twin Peaks but still worth the read. Fills in a few very important pieces of TP mythology. Doesn't necessarily answer any of the questions you may have from Season Three's finale but I wouldn't expect it to.
This doesn't explain everything, but it sure explains a lot. It's a just-right balance between keeping the central mysteries of the show alive, while also providing enough detail to satiate the curious. It just feels like Frost and Lynch decided to do all the basic exposition at the end of the show with this book instead of at the beginning. Pretty sure any diehard Twin Peaks fan was planning to read this anyway, but I hope you don't mind if I add my voice to the choir saying this was a fitting epilogue to the show we all love so much.
informative
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"Hello, Agent Cooper. I'll see you again in 25 years."
The Final Dossier tells us what happened to key characters in the 25 years in between the events of the second season and the third and we get details and insights to those characters which were left unknown after the second season.
I'm very happy with this book, it was again; compiled very well and easy to read. I was also glad to find out more about certain characters some of which were key characters and some minor - I was glad to find out more of them all.
The Final Dossier tells us what happened to key characters in the 25 years in between the events of the second season and the third and we get details and insights to those characters which were left unknown after the second season.
I'm very happy with this book, it was again; compiled very well and easy to read. I was also glad to find out more about certain characters some of which were key characters and some minor - I was glad to find out more of them all.
Fills in some gaps on characters that The Return didn't touch on, but otherwise doesn't add a whole lot to the tapestry of Twin Peaks.
