Product Description

The vampire Angelus flees to Sunnydale where he restricts his feeding to blood banks. Then 16-year-old Buffy Summers, the vampire slayer, arrives in town to battle the Forces of Darkness, and so begins their star-crossed love story. This volume contains three tales from the TV series.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #611998 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 224 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
This novelization is based on three second-season episodes: Surprise, Innocence and Passion, and includes 8 pages of colour stills. These stories develop the darker side of the vampire Angel's nature. A gypsy curse returned his soul to him so that he would suffer remorse for his evil deeds and he has been helping Buffy in her fight against evil ever since. Over time, the two have fallen in love. But the curse specifies that if he experiences even one moment of true happiness, he will lose his soul once more. This happens when he and Buffy sleep together for the first and only time and he reverts to his demonic nature.

His ensuing actions are truly brutal. Buffy is already racked with guilt for sleeping with him and his transformation seems to confirm the depth of her mistake as she realises that her mother, Giles and all of her friends are now in mortal danger.

These three stories are very dark and very powerfully told. The novelization follows the TV versions faithfully, filling in the thoughts and feelings of the tormented characters. These stories are about passion and some of its darker consequences and the book, like the original episodes, leaves the reader with plenty to think about. --Liz Sourbut

From the Author
Angel is definitely an intriguing character!
The Angel Chronicles, Volume 1, is a novelization of three episodes: "Angel," "Reptile Boy," and "Lie to Me." This is the second book I've written (the first with Christopher Golden) about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I was delighted to have the chance to novelize three of my favorite episodes. The scripts are beautifully written by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt, and I hope fellow Buffy enthusiasts enjoy my novelizations of them.

Customer Reviews

A must for any Angel fans out there!
This has to be the best summary book I have ever read. Being a huge Buffy and Angel fan I would definatly recommend this one. The book encompasses my three favourite episodes and includes all the quotes from the episode Passion, that have you glued to the book. All in all I give this a thumbs up. It encouraged me to buy Angel chronicles Book 1 and 2.

Awesome
I love this book and I love the romance, danger,love and feeling all mixed up together, it is soooo good. I love Angel(aka David Boreanaz) and I think he is gorgeous, so I have all 3 Angel chronicles, I love the first one but this is also really cool. Nancy Holder is an excellent author and she writes with such true and believable emotion that I was in tears. I am only 13 but I appreciate the depth of the love the characters feel for each other. I must admit I prefer the good Angel, I don't like him being cruel and evil, but I still love him. This an excellent book, a must for die hard Buffy fans like me.

I loved this book
I loved this book, in my opinion its the best of the angel chronicles. It shows a completely different side to the angel we know, also its uncovers more of Angels old relationship with Drucilla which was a bit misty before.