A review by k_wazlib
Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1 by Doranna Durgin, Mel Odom, Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, Greg Rucka, Christie Golden
4.0
I am a huge fan of Buffy and nearly everything that springs from its creative and addicting nucleus.
Therefore speaking, I completely adored this book. While it's not about Buffy per say, it's more about slayers of the past and how they met their untimely ends. Comprising of several short stories Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1 brings a lot of historics and badass slayers to the table. What happened at Roanoke? Vampires. Was Elizabeth Bathory a vampire? Who knows? This novel sheds an interesting light on some big times in history.
While there are plenty of different authors and writing styles in this book, I didn't feel myself put off at all by it, as I've seen mentioned in other reviews. Sure, I found some parts of certain stories to be a bit daunting (hence the four star rating) but, I still couldn't put the book down.
My favorite story of the lot would probably have to be The White Doe, which dealt with Roanoke. I've always been curious about the place and this story certainly fuels my historical imagination. Not to mention how legend-like it felt to me. I feel that it could certainly take its place among other legends (albeit one with vampires) because it just sounded that darn good.
I could only imagine how much more I'd have paid attention in History class if we heard stories like these about Slayers during those important eras of time.
☆☆☆☆/5
Recommend?: If you like Buffy, absolutely.
If you like reading about vampires getting dusted, possitively.
Or, if you're just up for some seriously cool supernatural historical fiction short stories, gogogo.
Therefore speaking, I completely adored this book. While it's not about Buffy per say, it's more about slayers of the past and how they met their untimely ends. Comprising of several short stories Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1 brings a lot of historics and badass slayers to the table. What happened at Roanoke? Vampires. Was Elizabeth Bathory a vampire? Who knows? This novel sheds an interesting light on some big times in history.
While there are plenty of different authors and writing styles in this book, I didn't feel myself put off at all by it, as I've seen mentioned in other reviews. Sure, I found some parts of certain stories to be a bit daunting (hence the four star rating) but, I still couldn't put the book down.
My favorite story of the lot would probably have to be The White Doe, which dealt with Roanoke. I've always been curious about the place and this story certainly fuels my historical imagination. Not to mention how legend-like it felt to me. I feel that it could certainly take its place among other legends (albeit one with vampires) because it just sounded that darn good.
I could only imagine how much more I'd have paid attention in History class if we heard stories like these about Slayers during those important eras of time.
☆☆☆☆/5
Recommend?: If you like Buffy, absolutely.
If you like reading about vampires getting dusted, possitively.
Or, if you're just up for some seriously cool supernatural historical fiction short stories, gogogo.