Love and Death (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) [Paperback]

Jeff Mariotte (Author)

Book Description

Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Publication Date: October 4, 2004

A vigilante mob is killing demons in Los Angeles -- and they can't tell the bad from the good.; Incited by an outspoken radio host, a mob of vigilantes has descended Los Angeles intent on ridding the city of the demons which they believe have overrun it. To Angel and his fellow fighters of evil, the vigilante killers are more of a hindrance than a help. Intent on solving a grisly and harrowing murder, at first they fail to realise that the angry mob is becoming a serious issue -- let alone how much danger they themselves are in. Then Lorne is attacked and almost killed and Connor disappears. The mob isn't stopping to ask which demons are on the side of good and which are not. Or maybe they just don't care. Maybe anyone with a trace of demonic blood is fair game to them -- and that includes the vampire with a soul...

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About the Author

Jeff Mariotte is Senior Editor at D.C. Comics and creator of the cult comics Desperadoes and Countdown. An experienced tie-in author, he has written novels for Angel, Star Trek and CSI. Before he became a writer he was a partner in a speciality bookstore, Mysterious Galaxies, which his wife still runs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books (October 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743495543
• ISBN-13: 978-0743495547
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,566,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the multiple award-winning author of more than forty-five novels, including original supernatural thrillers Cold Black Hearts, River Runs Red and Missing White Girl, horror epic The Slab, thriller The Devil's Bait, and the Stoker-Award nominated teen horror quartet Dark Vengeance, as well as books set in the universes of Supernatural, CSI, Spider-Man, Superman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Conan, 30 Days of Night, and more. He is also the author of more comic books than he has time to count, including the horror graphic novel Zombie Cop, the original Western series Desperadoes (some of which have been nominated for Stoker and International Horror Guild awards) and the bestselling Presidential Material: Barack Obama. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Western Writers of America, and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. With his wife, Maryelizabeth Hart, and partner Terry Gilman, he co-owns Mysterious Galaxy, a bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror. He lives on the Flying M Ranch in the American southwest with his family and pets in a home filled with books, music, toys, and other examples of American pop culture. More information than you would ever want to know about him is at jeffmariotte.com, where you'll also find a link to his blog.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, August 20, 2005

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Glenda "Crazed" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love and Death (Angel (Simon Pulse)) (Mass Market Paperback)

Okay i really enjoyed this book i coulden't put it down. I loved how everybody had a different reason for comming to L.A to help out i thought that was neat and there own thoughts on the situation a also really liked how Angels protective Parantal instincts come into place when Connor is stabbed. (Thought it was darn cute)Overall i enjoyed the book and reccomend it to anyone who enjoys a good reading!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Streets of L.A., June 18, 2005

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This review is from: Love and Death (Angel (Simon Pulse)) (Mass Market Paperback)

When one of those late night, seat of the pants, radio stations suddenly decides to take on all the demons and vampires in Los Angeles, it almost sounded too good to be true. Angel was busy trying to solve the case involving a house that killed its inhabitants and vampires who died, but didn't dust. But then reality sank in - to the vigilante teams now wandering the streets, guys like Angel and Lorne were just more monsters. If L.A.'s nightlife was dangerous before, it's a disaster now.

Of course, something else is rotten, and it's up to the team to figure it out in this late-in-the-series mystery from Jeff Mariotte. Gunn and Fred aren't talking, Cordy reports that Connor is missing, and Wesley is hung up on Lilah. And in the middle of all this emotional turmoil something old and incredibly alien is working a whole new kink on Valentine's Day.

Something in me wonders when the various spin-offs of Buffy and Angel will finally seek their own quietus. With both series over, books like this are overshadowed by the fact that everything in them is close ended. It's quite hard sometimes to read a story like this and not see the characters in their final setting. Especially when the story, as is the case here, takes place only a bit before that end.

Mariotte has done well in the Buffyverse, and this is almost a very successful not. Unfortunately, there is not was to resolve the undercurrent of tension in the character's relationships. Mariotte must resort to a climactic hack and cast spells ending followed by some vague moralizing to bring the book to catharsis. It left me feeling a bit sad for both the characters and the monsters.