The Harvest [Loose Leaf]

Richie Tankersley Cusick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2001

NEW SCHOOL.

SAME ASSIGNMENT.

Something's wrong in Sunnydale, California...something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find them where they gather and stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. In this generation, she is Buffy Summers, 16 years old and a new student at Sunnydale High. Her experiences at her last school persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life of a normal teenager. But it is no coincidence that Buffy has come to this town at this time. The area is a center of mystical energy, and all the signs point to an iminent, crucial upheaval. Once in a century comes The Harvest: a night when the Master Vampire can draw enough power to break free and open the portal between his world and ours...unleashing havoc. With the help of new friends and a new Watcher, Buffy's back in business....

Product Details

• Loose Leaf: 160 pages
• Publisher: Gallery (August 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743431073
• ISBN-13: 978-0743431071
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,131,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction!, December 2, 1999

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This review is from: The Harvest (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (Mass Market Paperback)

The first novel based on the WB series introduces you to the characters. It's an exact copy of the pilot episode were Buffy comes to Sunnydale and meets Xander, Willow, Cordelia, Giles and Angel as they learn more about The Master and his harvest plans. This is an excellent book for all who missed the pilot, but also for those who watched it, it's still a good read. I gave it 4 stars. It lost 1 star due to the fact that it's an exact copy.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Into Every Generation ...., March 23, 2001

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This review is from: The Harvest (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a latecomer to the Buffy mythos. The show had already been on TV for a year when I finally rented the videotape. And it wasn't until the end of the second year that I started watching it regularly. As a result, there is a huge gap in my knowledge of Buffy lore, which can only be made up by studying the ancient tomes. "The Harvest" has eluded me for some time.

One of the problems with being a middle-aged Buffy fan is that your friends look at you strangely when you mention it. Not only did I have no idea how Buffy got to Sunnydale, how she met the rest of the Scooby gang, etc., I had no one to ask about it. "The Harvest" is a fun, easily read book that covers the first episode perfectly. For me, it brought a lot of the puzzle pieces together. It lacks much of the pain and anguish of the Buffy of the later years and so is quite a bit of plain good fun. Buffy's quips at vampires seem quippier and Xander's antics still have their charm. Willow's honesty is winning, and Cordelia is, well, Cordelia is Cordelia. Giles doesn't get as much play as he should, but that may be a bit more characterization than it's fair to expect from an 146 page retelling of a TV episode.

As a matter of fact, it's amazing just how fresh this book is, even after countless Buffy books and episodes. We get to follow Buffy as she makes new friends and discovers that she didn't quite manage to leave Slaying behind. Right of the bat (bad pun) she is embroiled in the battle with the master that spills over into many episodes. This is necessary reading for beginning Buffyites. Be prepared for entertainment, suspense and a whopping good finish.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Novelisation of the first episodes..., June 23, 2001

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Alaria (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Harvest (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) (Mass Market Paperback)

"The Harvest" is a novelisation based on the first episodes of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. We are introduced to Buffy Summers, the vampire slayer of her generation, as she arrives in Sunnydale hoping to escape from the vampires and start a new life. It soon becomes apparent that she has picked the wrong town...

This was an easy-to-read, well written novelisation. It kept me hooked and I read it straight through in an hour. I have seen both episodes it is based on - Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest - but that didn't stop me from enjoying it. Even though it's pretty much a transcript of each episode, it's interesting to be able to read what the characters are thinking. I recommend this to all Buffy The Vampire Slayer fans.

~Jenna~