Seven Crows

[Jules]

Seven Crows is written by John Vornholt and is a crossover of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It features Riley and Sam and Angel and Buffy. The concept is good. Riley and Sam have job where they need extra help and they have a few crossed wires about which one the other wanted to invite to help; Riley invites Buffy and Sam invites Angel.

The characters aren't like they are in the show, but you can kind of look past that.

As a bangel fan, I love Angel's last comment to Buffy:

''I've been addicted to blood and violence and immortality - but the hardest addiction I ever had to break was the one to you. It would be too easy to start again...and too impossible to quit.''

Aww, how sweet!!

So, who else has read this book?

[Joyce Summers]

Whoa that quote is sweetness and true love rolled into one personifiediness. Made me go 'awww'.

I haven't read this book but I've been oohing and aahing over whether to buy it or not...so all you guys out there who *have* read it- should I or shouldn't I? :raises eyebrow inquisitively much like a gameshow host:

[Keanoite]

Apart from that perfect quote I really struggle to like this book. It just isn't Buffy, the characters don't read like anything remotely Buffy and they sure as hell don't act like them. I read it twice thinking maybe I had been too harsh the first time around but on second reading I decided I han't been harsh enough! There is fanfiction out there that is light-years ahead of this book.

[Joyce Summers]

So that'd be a no then........hehe

[Jules]

Whoa that quote is sweetness and true love rolled into one personifiediness. Made me go 'awww'.

I haven't read this book but I've been oohing and aahing over whether to buy it or not...so all you guys out there who *have* read it- should I or shouldn't I? :raises eyebrow inquisitively much like a gameshow host:

Like Keanoite says, the characters aren't like they are in the show. If you can get past that then the story isn't shockingly bad, its just the characters aren't very Buffyverse :)

[Joyce Summers]

Hmm....intriguing. Thanks for the insight guys....I'm considering buying the e-book for $1.50. It would mean if I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have spent much money at all on it, but I'll get to have a read of it....hmm.....

[SpikedBuffy]

I've read this book. I did like parts of it, but I agree with the writing issues. Not only do the characters not read like themselves, but I always have a hard time trying to fit this book in continuinty wise with the show. The other books, you kind of can, but this one totally flies in the face of the show.

For example, Dawn is graduating from Sunnydale High (or maybe it's summer break late in her high school education) and it doesn't make sense because the high school was destroyed (as well as Sunnydale) And I always thought that this book took place in the somewhat distant future. It's just weird.