Not bad but remember the Mission Statement! An enjoyable read but I found myself wondering if some of the contributors remebered Joss Whedon's words that Buffy is about girl power.
Some of the Slayers and their Watchers described here are barely competent and I couldn't help wondering if we had had a history of such in the Buffyverse then the whole planet would be overrun by vamps by now! The writers also seem to have a perverse desire to finish their Slayer off in one story which is a shame as some of the characters are interesting enough for a... more info
Into every generation a Slayer is born; meet seven of them There have been hundreds of Slayers over thousands of years of human history and this first volume of "Tales of the Slayers" begins to reveal the past. We have seen Lucy Hanover in several of Nancy Holder's books, walking the Ghost Roads and doing what she can to help Buffy and the Scoobies in the here and now, but only "Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row" by Christopher Golden and Holder's "The Book of the Fours" have dealt with past Slayer in any substantive way. Those were novels and these "Tales... more info
The varied tales of slayers from the past This is a wonderful collection of short stories foucusing on past slayers. Some of the stories focus on their calling, their major fights and alot of them, their deaths. Even though you know that one slayer dies before another is called, some of the deaths are still unexpected and disconcerted. The stories are varied, Germany, Hungary, America, England and France and set in different times - the 1920s, the French Revolution, the time of the disovery of America, 800 years BC - there are many different types... more info
not as Buffy-related as the title leads you to expect I enjoyed this book as a collection of short stories, but was disappointed that none of the stories linked in with the known Buffyverse. No mention of the Master, Darla, Angelus, Drusilla or Spike, who would have been at least known to most of the slayers portrayed. Well-written, and interesting slayer tales, but ultimately a bit of a let-down.
