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A review by numinaluna
Angel & Faith: What You Want, Not What You Need by Rebekah Isaacs, Christos Gage, Joss Whedon
4.0
This chapter was hugely satisfying. The trademark one-liners are there, the humor in the face of tragedy, the angst, making fun of the angst, and of course, every single character wanting to be the one to make the 'ultimate sacrifice' in the face of certain doom. We've gotten back to our roots, and I am glad.
And GILES! It's about damned time. I'm not sure how I feel about Giles being... back to his roots. I will need to share this part of the series with a number of my Whedonverse friends who don't read the comics. The show(s) always had the most uncanny timing, and it is good to know that the books are carrying on that connection in my life, even when I read them a year or two late.
I'm not giving this chapter a fifth star, though. It cleans up a number of messes that have been needing it for years, and I am looking forward to the next chapter because of it, but it doesn't stand alone as a 5-star read. It still feels a bit too fan-fictiony for me -- albeit very good fanfiction -- and 5-star Buffy or Angel was obviously when Joss wrote and directed every line.
And GILES! It's about damned time. I'm not sure how I feel about Giles being... back to his roots. I will need to share this part of the series with a number of my Whedonverse friends who don't read the comics. The show(s) always had the most uncanny timing, and it is good to know that the books are carrying on that connection in my life, even when I read them a year or two late.
I'm not giving this chapter a fifth star, though. It cleans up a number of messes that have been needing it for years, and I am looking forward to the next chapter because of it, but it doesn't stand alone as a 5-star read. It still feels a bit too fan-fictiony for me -- albeit very good fanfiction -- and 5-star Buffy or Angel was obviously when Joss wrote and directed every line.