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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Different..., July 19, 2001
Doomsday Deck is a good book. The Tarot is intelligent and the author seems to know alot about this subject. However, I rejected this book a 4 or 5-star rating because it doesn't explain clearly enough about Justine's paintings, the characters just aren't the same and the subject of Tarot doesn't really match slaying vampires excellently. I like stories about witchcraft and psychic people, and although this book's psychic story is interesting, the idea of people who touch Justine's Tarot cards and then become one of her paintings is totally laughable. It's hard to see Buffy taking this idea seriously in the TV show. There is a descriptive, intriguing and overall cracking conclusion that almost forgives all the film's faultS but when you look back, you remember the times when you sighed at the silliness. This is definitely a different idea, but I don't think it matches well with in the Buffy saga. Maybe as a book on it's own, Doomsday Deck would've been worthy of a higher rating.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Kali Vs. Buffy - Slayer Decked!, March 30, 2002
Gallagher's least-developed Buffy book, but not bad. It shoots out of a gun and rips right through, but everything seems to happen out of the blue without any kind of buildup. It's as light as popcorn and just as satisfying, but hey, sometimes you're in the mood for popcorn.You can't completely dislike a book with a villainess so venal, she'd sell her soul and risk the destruction of the universe just for her own New York art show. The would-be artist in question is in league with the goddess Kali, utilizing a cursed tarot deck to hasten the apocalypse. Kali! Buffy! One round only! Winner take all! Yeah, kinda fun, if you're in the mood. You've read better, but you could kill an hour or two out of your life in worse ways.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another excellant Buffy novel by Diana Gallagher., December 4, 2000
Buffy and her friends have got their hands full with helping Buffy's mother out with the annual Sunnydale Sidewalk Art Festival and patrolling to make sure vampires don't prey on the unsuspecting artists. Xander is especially eager to help out - a young artist named Justine has attracted his attention. Justine tells Xander she senses psychic powers surrounding his aura. Xander thinks that means he's psychic, and he allows Justine to do a Tarot card reading for him. After that, Xander begins to act more than a little strange. At first, Buffy thinks he's just infatuated with Justine, but he's not the only one acting weird - after Oz gets a Tarot reading, he begins to act like Xander. So Buffy and Willow go to investigate Justine, who acts pretty weird herself. When Willow is next to fall victim, Buffy learns that Justine struck a deal with the evil demon Kali. Justine plans to hand the world to Kali in exchange for becoming a famous artist. What Justine fails to realize is that the only way Kali can be satisfied is if the entire universe comes to an end. And not only that, but Justine's method of handing the world to Kali involves killing twenty-two people by trapping their souls in paintings of the Tarot cards - and Willow, Oz, and Xander are doomed to be her latest victims. But if Buffy doesn't find a way to stop Justine, it won't be just her friends who will be dead - but everyone in the entire world as well. This was another great Buffy novel by Diana G. Gallagher, who also wrote the excellent Prime Evil, which came out earlier this year.
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