Product Description

All her life, Faith has been a loner. Growing up in a broken home in south Boston, the only friend she could talk to was an imaginary companion called Alex, who helped her to escape to a fantasy world of monsters, far from the grim reality of her everyday life. But when social services take her away from her mother, Faith discovers all too soon that monsters themselves are real. When Diana Dormer, a representative from the Watchers' Council, comes to prepare her for her destiny - to be the Slayer, the Chosen One; to stand alone against the forces of darkness - Faith is better equipped than most for the task ahead. Then her childhood companion, Alex, returns to bring her a warning in her dreams. Something is coming for her, something beyond her wildest nightmares: a force so deadly and unforgiving that it has inspired fear for a thousand generations - and its name is Malice. As memory and fantasy begin to merge, Faith's two world's collide, with cataclysmic results - and a violent battle begins for the Slayer's soul.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #177611 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Better than the average Buffy-book standard
I see Buffy-books as glorified fanfiction. If you want fanfiction you can get it free and a lot better than these souless novels all over the net. However, this book is different. With painstaking attention to the details of canon and a surprising understanding of Faith's character, Levy has written a suprisingly enjoyable novel.

Written in diary-form, it begins several months before Faith is called as a slayer. We learn about the life she had which was only hinted about in the show. Levy's Faith is much more vulnerable than any version seen previously, but is instantly recognisable. Her voice and behaivour is spot-on.

I tend to find reading fight scenes very boring, but seen here, through Faith's perspective, they get much more interesting. We see her as a girl torn between a longing for security and a need to rebel, torn between love and hatred, and, most of all, between sanity and what she sees insanity.

Tha language of the book is nothing spectacular, but Levy has a reasonable handle on what a teenage girl sounds like. The diary-form does make it fairly unique from other Buffy-products, and the short and pithy enteries make for compulsive reading.

Even if you're not a fan of Faith, I'd reccomend this book. After reading it, I saw her as a much more interesting character, someone who I could feel real sympathy for. All the less important characters are well drawn too - Faith's watcher, her boyfriend, and the rather scary villain.

A Fantastic Homage to the Dark Slayer
I'm been getting Buffy books for years hoping that they would be as good as the show, and so far, no luck.

Until I found this one.

I make no secret of being a Faith fan, more so that of Buffy, but I say this unbiased - this book is well written with an interesting style - almost epistolary with the notes she writes to herself in her diary - with a fantastic plot and an intuitive knowlege of Buffy canon. The details about Faith's past which were exluded from the show are explained here and it's enough to keep you thinking about it for days.

Fascinating!
I found this book to be unputdownable. Absolutely fascinating. It begins with Faith's start in life and her first encounter with a vampire even before she knows what a Slayer is, let alone have become one. It's a novel unlike any of the others written based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer because it's written in the first person as a diary.

All of our questions about Faith are answered because it brings us up to the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, just before Faith arrives in Sunnydale. We learn why she uses the phrase "five by five", we learn why she hates her mother so much, why she doesn't ever talk about her father, why she hates men, why she is so messed up and why she is so afraid of Kakistos.

This is a brilliant read if you really want to get into the heart and soul of Faith the Vampire Slayer. Strong recommendation for all those Buffy fans!