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Buffyverse Novels #12
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Suicide King
As a series of student suicides jolts Sunnydale High, Buffy Summers and her gang begin to suspect that there is something supernatural behind the deaths and race against time to uncover the truth and to defeat an ancient evil known as the Suicide King before one of their own falls prey, in the first volume in an all-new series of interactive adventures. Original. (Tie-in to the syndicated television series, created by Joss Whedon, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, & others) (Horror)
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 8, 2005
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November 21, 2016
Students at Sunnydale High are killing themselves at an alarming rate. At first, the Scooby gang thinks that life on the Hellmouth is getting to their classmates, but anybody who has ever watched the show knows there's more likely a demonic explanation for what's going on. That's the setting for this Choose Your Own Adventure style book set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Universe.
My first reading of this book lasted about twenty pages before I died. I thought that I was making the choices the characters on the show would make, but my first death involved following up on alleged death by peanut allergy by a fellow student but that somehow led to me investigating a warehouse and confronting Spike and Drucilla on my own. That was fairly frustrating, as it seems like there are a few interim choices I had to make to get at that point that were unrelated to the peanut allergy kid.
When I tried again, I tried to go the opposite route of Buffy (including going to a movie with Cordelia, something I doubt either character would ever have done on the show) and ended up doing much better (though aided with some knowledge of clues that I had found my first time through. This second trip through allowed for me to survive at the cost of one poor soul being sacrificed to entrap the Suicide King.
On my third time though, process of elimination made it a fairly easy path to survive until the end, for a happily ever after while patrolling the cemetery with Angel. This story taking place during season two of the television show allows for some fun insight by the reader into how things really turn out between Buffy, Angel and Spike. For fans of the tv show I thought this was a pretty fun entry into the novelization series.
My first reading of this book lasted about twenty pages before I died. I thought that I was making the choices the characters on the show would make, but my first death involved following up on alleged death by peanut allergy by a fellow student but that somehow led to me investigating a warehouse and confronting Spike and Drucilla on my own. That was fairly frustrating, as it seems like there are a few interim choices I had to make to get at that point that were unrelated to the peanut allergy kid.
When I tried again, I tried to go the opposite route of Buffy (including going to a movie with Cordelia, something I doubt either character would ever have done on the show) and ended up doing much better (though aided with some knowledge of clues that I had found my first time through. This second trip through allowed for me to survive at the cost of one poor soul being sacrificed to entrap the Suicide King.
On my third time though, process of elimination made it a fairly easy path to survive until the end, for a happily ever after while patrolling the cemetery with Angel. This story taking place during season two of the television show allows for some fun insight by the reader into how things really turn out between Buffy, Angel and Spike. For fans of the tv show I thought this was a pretty fun entry into the novelization series.
August 7, 2020
This one was short and sweet. This particular adventure didn't give you as many choices, but each choice you make is very important and has a few pages worth of narrative that corresponds to it. The only part I didn't care for was that many of the deaths were by the same method which felt very formulaic.
There are two main endings to this story, so you'll want to work your way through it at least twice to see if you can get to them. You can tell you've seen them when you're shown an epilogue. That's how you can tell the "official endgame endings."
There are two main endings to this story, so you'll want to work your way through it at least twice to see if you can get to them. You can tell you've seen them when you're shown an epilogue. That's how you can tell the "official endgame endings."
February 25, 2019
Choose your own adventure? I'm in
May 7, 2020
Short and fun. Fans of the series looking for a Buffy fix would enjoy it.
June 4, 2022
A cute chose-your-own-adventure style Buffy book. I think had I read this as a teen I'd of enjoyed it more. I went through a the different solutions/endings you could get. You play as Buffy herself trying to solve the monster of the week mystery.
February 2, 2014
It was never going to be a great work of literature, but it was fun to re-visit early Buffy (Principal Snyder!)and I quite enjoyed picking which option to take next. Appeals to the massive nerd in me basically. Sadly my choices led to my beloved Willow being left mentally scarred and in a psychiatric hospital, so apparently I'm not good Slayer material.
Fun stuff though.
Fun stuff though.
August 16, 2014
It is what it is, a book aimed at kids. Remember this,if you want to make the right choice in this book, pick the event with the lowest page number. The higher the page number, the closer to the end you are. Are there any "pick your destiny" books for adults?
September 18, 2007
Sure I know the author. Sure he's one of my best friends. Does that mean that I can't love this little choose your own adventure Buffy bookette?
February 2, 2010
u cant cange destiny
April 18, 2011
Fun book for Buffy fans. Setting is during season two befog Buffy's 17th birthday.
January 26, 2015
I loved these type books as a kid and there still fun now. I lost and got killed I enjoyed vistying willys though.
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