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Editorial Review:
The Burning is the action-packed first volume of the "Unseen" trilogy. It's also the first crossover novel linking "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel". Buffy, Angel and their friends become involved with several apparently separate problems involving black magic, runaway teenagers, street gangs and police corruption. In Sunnydale, Nicky de la Natividad, the brother of a friend of Willows, has become involved with a powerful gang, the Latin Cobras. He invokes ancient Aztec magic to render himself invulnerable to harm, but his meddling unleashes dangerous forces. In order to fight them Buffy and Willow travel to LA, where Buffy is not looking forward to encroaching on Angel's turf. Meanwhile, Angel is called in to investigate the case of Rojelio Flores, who has been wrongfully arrested for murder. Both the jail and Rojelio's home appear to be possessed, with objects flying around by themselves. While Angel is trying to protect the Flores family, Cordelia meets a group of runaway girls who want to become vampires. The book ends with Buffy and Angel arguing as they face danger together, nicely set up for volume two: Door to Alternity. There's a lot going on, and as yet very few answers, but Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte are both veterans of the Buffyverse, and the reader is free to enjoy the ride, confident that everything will come clear by the end of volume three, Long Way Home. If the other two volumes match this one, it will be an exhilarating experience. --Elizabeth Sourbut
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Good story but the details will bug devoted fans Firstly I must say that I did enjoy the book, if I hadn't I wouldn't be reading the second in the series. But there were small details which bugged me. The author hasn't kept quite to the buffy version of vampires etc, which seems silly as this is a buffy book. Major nit-pick .... Angel likes food, he likes to eat, drink be merry. Makes him feel less of a monster and more part of society. Oh and anybody noticed the peanut butter thing, nobody eats that stuff for the texture.
Not Worth The Paper It's Printed On I like Buffy The Vampire Slayer ... that I reviewed the series 1 DVD box set so positively is evidence of that. I like Angel, admittedly nowhere near as much as Buffy, but I still like it as it, being a spin-off, is set in the same universe as Buffy and adds to the overall story and interest in the Buffy universe. I also like the idea of crossovers where a particular scenario is crossed with another one in what is usually, or should be I feel, an attempt to investigate what will happen when that is done ...... more info
Buffy and Angel take on magical monsters and an L.A. gang Buffy and Angel do not learn that they are in a crossover story until fairly late in "The Burning," the first book in the "Unseen" trilogy by Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte, which is to be expected since there are two more books to go (Yes, I did not start the first book until the third one was published because I do not like to wait for the next volume). It is the summer after the downfall of the Initiative and Buffy and Willow are trying to help Salma de la Navidad, a fellow student at UC-Sunnydale, who... more info
Guess which two books are next on my wish list... If you buy The Burning then make sure you buy the other two books in this series, because I didn't put this one down untill I had finished reading it, I am now pining to find out what happens in the next instalment.
If like me you have only started watching Buffy in the last couple of series then you will be happy as this book is set between series 4 and 5, so the scooby gang is complete with Riley and Tara, and Angel's buddies include Cordy Wesey and there is even a brief reference to Gunn. Nancy Holder... more info
