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wyrmbergmalcolm's review against another edition
3.0
This is a pretty straightforward novelisation of three episodes from the TV show: Teacher's Pet, Inca Mummy Girl and Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered. Three fun episodes made for three fun stories to read. Unfortunately, the book doesn't add anything that's not already on screen, but is well written that they did feel a lot like the episodes. Frankly, if you've time to read this, you might was well watch the show. The three stories are loosely tied together with short interval pieces featuring Xander as he thinks back over his failed love life.
alexampersand's review
4.0
Another quick little novelisation of 3 episodes, this time centred around Xander - arguably the least interesting of the core Scoobies. But the episodes covered here are fun episodes (Teachers Pet, Inca Mummy Girl (apart from the racist aspects...) Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered)
I find Xander as a character troublesome, but I felt like there was just enough self deprecation throughout the inner monologue here that for the most part I didn't want to throw him out of the window.
I will give this one credit for the fact that the "between-episode" narrative (ie Xander sitting wistfully and reminiscing on each episode) actually did feel realistic, had a minor plot to it, and worked with the episodes functioning as "flashbacks". Especially compared with The Angel Chronicles, which felt like the interludes were there purely for page filling.
There were also a few times where it felt like the author took the tiniest bit of creative liberty to make the book read better than it would as a direct-from-screen novelisation - filling in some minor blanks where the episode sometimes threw us into the middle of a scene, or occasionally switching up the order of things when the episode cut between two different locations, the book instead just followed one location, then followed the other. So I enjoyed that.
My one critique of the writing would be that especially in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered there were a few times (too many times) when the author just shoehorned in a quote from a different episode of the series, and had a character think "As this person once said..." which just felt a little too much like the author wanted to add in some wit and humour from the show.
Anyway, overall it was a fun read, especially one that only took me about 3 hours to read.
I find Xander as a character troublesome, but I felt like there was just enough self deprecation throughout the inner monologue here that for the most part I didn't want to throw him out of the window.
I will give this one credit for the fact that the "between-episode" narrative (ie Xander sitting wistfully and reminiscing on each episode) actually did feel realistic, had a minor plot to it, and worked with the episodes functioning as "flashbacks". Especially compared with The Angel Chronicles, which felt like the interludes were there purely for page filling.
There were also a few times where it felt like the author took the tiniest bit of creative liberty to make the book read better than it would as a direct-from-screen novelisation - filling in some minor blanks where the episode sometimes threw us into the middle of a scene, or occasionally switching up the order of things when the episode cut between two different locations, the book instead just followed one location, then followed the other. So I enjoyed that.
My one critique of the writing would be that especially in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered there were a few times (too many times) when the author just shoehorned in a quote from a different episode of the series, and had a character think "As this person once said..." which just felt a little too much like the author wanted to add in some wit and humour from the show.
Anyway, overall it was a fun read, especially one that only took me about 3 hours to read.
carbinara's review against another edition
3.0
It was fun, stan cordelia chase <3 wish it didnt have the last line tho, although i think it was just for comedic affect lol xx i will also say i liked how this book made me feel for some of the side characters that show up just to get killed in the show x
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