Bad Bargain (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) by Diana G. Gallagher
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Book Summary Author: Diana G. Gallagher Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2006-12-26 ISBN: 1416919198 Number of pages: 208 Reading Level: Young Adult Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
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Book Reviews of the Bad Bargain (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Customer Review: When a Bargain is not a Bargain
Summary: 4 Stars
First of all this is set in the post-Master, pre evil-Angel era. Keeping that in mind you will find a lot of clever foreshadowing for later episodes. It is time to raise money for the band (the year before the band candy incident). The school is holding a rummage sale and a lot of the students are forced to help out. Unfortunately the donations were stored in the basement right by the Hellmouth itself (I always thought is manifested in the library but the giant slug was in the basement). The seal on the Hellmouth has developed some minor cracks. Not enough to let anything significant through, but large enough for the Hellmouth equivalent of bugs and vermin to pass through. They have infected the donated items and the items are infecting people handling them.
Soon a crisis is looming as people begin to come down with strange symptoms and wasting diseases. The school is closed and quarantined until a solution can be found. The one hope is that there is a demon that is the equivalent of a Hellmouth dogcatcher and he is supposed to get the beasties back to preserve the Earth for the big baddies when they are ready to take over. So we need to keep the slayer from killing the demon, round up the bad beasties before people start to die, get everyone back in the Hellmouth, and seal up all of the cracks. Pretty much a typical day for the Slayer, what with fighting monsters and trying to keep people from dying. To find out how successful the Slayer is you will have to read the book.
This is a fun period in the Slayer history. Angel is not yet bad, Ms. Calendar is still around. Oz has noticed Willow but she doesn't know it yet. Spike and Dru are the big baddies. All of the foreshadowing of future episodes is clever and well done. The plotting moves with just enough plot complications to keep it interesting without getting silly. Characters are portrayed true to form so you can hear them delivering their lines. All in all a wonderful little story that would have made an excellent episode. If you like the early Buffy then this is a story for you. Check it out.