Buffy: The Lost Slayer: Dark Times Bk. 2 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer S.) [Import] [Mass Market Paperback]

Christopher Golden (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books (2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743430204
• ISBN-13: 978-0743430203
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,977,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the award-winning, bestselling author of such novels as The Myth Hunters, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, Of Saints and Shadows, and (with Tim Lebbon) The Map of Moments. He has also written books for teens and young adults, including Poison Ink, Soulless, and the thriller series Body of Evidence, honored by the New York Public Library and chosen as one of YALSA's Best Books for Young Readers. Upcoming teen novels include a new series of hardcover YA fantasy novels co-authored with Tim Lebbon and entitled The Secret Journeys of Jack London.

A lifelong fan of the "team-up," Golden frequently collaborates with other writers on books, comics, and scripts. In addition to his recent work with Tim Lebbon, he co-wrote the lavishly illustrated novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire with Mike Mignola. With Thomas E. Sniegoski, he is the co-author of the book series OutCast and The Menagerie, as well as comic book miniseries such as Talent, currently in development as a feature film. With Amber Benson, Golden co-created the online animated series Ghosts of Albion and co-wrote the book series of the same name.
As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies The New Dead and British Invasion, among others, and has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, the online animated series Ghosts of Albion (with Amber Benson) and a network television pilot.

The author is also known for his many media tie-in works, including novels, comics, and video games, in the worlds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Angel, and X-Men, among others.

Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great sequal to The Lost Slayer., September 3, 2001

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This review is from: The Dark Times : Lost Slayer Serial Novel part 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

In the exciting next chapter to The Lost Slayer, Buffy finds herself thrown 5 years into the furture, and she's in a jail run by vampires. As a matter of fact, most of the area aroud Sunnydale is overrun bu vampires. This is an alternative universe that Buffy is in. She has one mission, to get back to her own reality. I can't say to much about this book b/c i dont' want to ruin anything. Just trust me, if you've read the first books, then you need to read the second.

What I liked about the alternative universe that Buffy is in, is that it has the char from Buffy's reality, but they just aren't the same. That's all I'm going to say, I can't give out to much. The end was incredible!! I can't wait for pt. 3.

I highly suggest this series. If yer a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then I *highly* suggest you get started on the first book, you won't be sorry.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Willow tries to rescue Buffy now and in the future, September 22, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dark Times : Lost Slayer Serial Novel part 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

A single bad judgment as the result of a monstrous lie has catapulted Buffy into the future and a world where vampires rule Sunnydale and the Slayer has been held captive for six years. A horrified Buffy learns she is now known as "The Lost Slayer," forgotten by the Watcher's Council. The most dramatic scene in this book comes early, when Buffy stages a chilling escape from her cell after resolving the cliffhanger that ended Part One, when August, the recently imprisoned second Slayer called to replace Faith, decided to kill Buffy so that a new Slayer could be called. This is definitely one of those sequences that is too intense for small children. Meanwhile, in the present, Giles is still being held hostage while Willow and the Scoobys discover something is not right with Buffy.

A photograph of Willow appears prominently on the cover of "Dark Times," because Buffy's best bud is a significant figure in both of the time periods in which this tale is told. Christopher Golden might have gone back to the start of Buffy's freshman year at UC-Sunnydale (i.e., the beginning of Season 4 of "Buffy"), but he is obviously setting up Willow's growth as a Wicca on the show. The once and future Willow gets to see almost as much action as the Slayer this time around, which is one of the strengths of "Dark Times." Certainly there are some flaws in the story, having mainly to do with the fact the vampires actually put a door into Buffy's cell (without which, escape would be totally impossible), but such things are easily forgivable when Golden has constructed a storyline that is trying to work on the same sort of operatic level as the best Buffy episodes (e.g., "Becoming"). I can still nitpick the details and thoroughly enjoy the novel.

One of the things that makes "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" one of the best shows on television is that there is a dark side, a world in which bad things happen to good people and the world just might come to an end as we know it. In "Dark Times" we get to see such a world, which is as horrific as when Anyanka granted Cordelia's wish that Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale in "Dopplegangland." Unlike "Prophecies," where the book ended with a dramatic cliffhanger that made you rush to pick up the next installment in the series, "Dark Times" ends with a shattering revelation as Buffy receives some unbelievably bad news. Thus, Golden again achieves the main goal when writing a serial novel: to leave the reader dying to find out what happens next.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great sequel nothing like it, August 28, 2001

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tammy (chicago, il United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dark Times : Lost Slayer Serial Novel part 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

if you thought the first one was great, you have not seen anything yet. it starts off with buffy in an alternate future where she has been imprisoned for 5 years. when the universe is seems at it's bleakest, her captors throws in another slayer who tells buffy the only way to change the world is for her to kill buffy. they battle it out to the death and of course buffy wins. she then tricks her jailors into thinking that both of them died and escapes to find the world that she knew is now run by the same vampires that imprisoned her. people are afraid to come out of their homes, people that owned buisness that would not cooperate with the vampires were slaughtered. it seems a bleak existence but buffy does find willow who is now a very powerful sorceres, and xander is a hardened man who rarely smiles or enjoyes life. if you thought the ending to part 1 was good, you have seen nothing yet. surprise is not even cover it. christoher golden has outdone himself and i know i can't wait to read book 3. note to author(why could you not just put all this in one hardcover book and make us pay 23 dollars) the suspense is killing us.