Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4) [Mass Market Paperback]

Arthur Byron Cover (Author)

Book Description

Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Pocket Paperback Numbered) | Publication Date: March 1, 1998

"A History Lesson?

"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 to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers.

As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking, now Buffy has begun to "dream about slaying! Night after night, it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail of a witch. What can it mean?

Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like "they have ancient alter egos. Now the stage is set for a symbolic replay of the night the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension.

Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending -- for himself. Buffy and her friends must pervent the Master from rewriting the script and escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale becomes history!

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment; First Edition edition (March 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671017152
• ISBN-13: 978-0671017156
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,695,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps just another collector's item..., July 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

Arthur Byron Cover's "Night of the Living Rerun" is my least favorite book in the series to date. As a fan of the television show, I found numerous discrepancies when reviewed in parallel. Not only was the book difficult to read (I had to go back and reread portions of the book to follow the plot), but I think some of the characters were not portrayed accurately when compared to the television series. The plot centers around past lives and recurring history... basically a plot that has been gone over many times before. History repeats itself and so on. I do have to mention that Cover mentioned Cordelia and Angel, which seems to be a first in the history of this series... of course, the mentions are small and don't contribute to the plot. If you're a collector of the Buffy series, you'll want to get this book, but others might find it a hard read with an unsatisfactory plot.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not True to Buffy, but fun for the Horror and S&S Buff, July 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

I didn't have trouble following this book, but I've been reading horror stories for over 30 years. The author doesn't have a good handle on the characters, but I didn't care. I've been an H.P. Lovecraft fan since I was 16, so I got a kick out of seeing the middle name of his good friend, Clark Ashton Smith, showing up, not to mention Giles consulting Eibon (A true Lovecraftian Evil Old Recluse will have the Book of Eibon amongst his forbidden tomes collection. Another of Lovecraft's friends, Robert E. [Ervin] Howard, is most famous for creating Conan the Barbarian, but he also created a fanatical Puritan adventurer who fought supernatural horrors. The name of that Puritan was Solomon Kane. That's why I laughed in delight over the dreams about the Puritan Slayer Samantha Kane and her Watcher, Robert Erwin. As a fan of "Kolchak the Night Stalker" [starring Darrin McGavin] from its first TV run, I chortled with glee when the even more hapless reporter Darryl MacGovern came on the scene. Readers who dislike Cotton Mather for his role in the Salem Witch Mockery-of-Justice will enjoy what happens to him in this book. Many of the other character names tease at my memory, but I haven't yet taken the time to look them up (worse, I left my notes at home!). Ooh -- almost forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the Master's dream of "Old Scratch." I found this book a very amusing romp and I suspect other horror fans will, too.

BTW, the scene where Samantha Kane is stalking after escaped witch Dim[n?]sdale [name from Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER?], before she's gruesomely attacked by various body parts that refuse to be slain, it says Kane didn't even have a captor to keep her company. Shouldn't that have been "captive"?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Best for casual Buffy fans, August 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Night of the Living Rerun (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Book 4) (Mass Market Paperback)

I just finished reading this book and was disappointed by it. The author obviously didn't know the show and the characters well so he chose to write more about characters and events from the past than he did about the characters of Buffy. There were a few interesting parts. The showdown with the Master and the possessed characters wasn't bad although I wouldn't have staged it at a steakhouse. I don't know what that was about. But on the whole, if you are looking for action, you will find it. But if you are truly immersed in Buffyness, I would try another book.