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Doomsday Deck -Written
by Diana G. Gallagher
-193 Pages
-December 2000
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Summary: Joyce Summers is running a
local art show for people from around the United States.
A girl named Justine shows up the first day to sign in
and Xander is immediately attracted to her. She offers to
do a Tarot reading for him which he agrees to. Once
Xander has touched her magickal deck he comes under her
control and has no will of his own. Justine is building a
powerful deck of Tarot cards which will allow her to
control the fate of the world with the help of the
goddess Kali, who, in return, wants ultimate peace on
Earth. Only Justine doesn't realize what ultimate peace
is and she's come to Sunnydale to collect the last four
people she needs to complete her deck of cards. Once her
deck has been completed the four people remaining needed
for the deck will die like the other eighteen she's used
to make the deck. Buffy must figure out how her friends
are being controlled and find a way to fight herself out
of the power of Justine's Tarot cards. |
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Rating: 3/5 |
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Review: I liked this book because it
was a fun, simple story to read. It was an easy read and
definitely for younger viewers of the show. It flowed
well and reading it went by really fast. What I didn't
like is that I didn't feel the characters were written
specifically for themselves. Buffy felt like a generic
powerful female character, she didn't feel
like the usual Buffy we see on TV. The other characters
were pretty decent but there wasn't enough description
about them to make an actual comment on them. The
storyline was neat and I loved the idea of Justine's
victims being pulled into their paintings. That was an
awesome idea. As well as the idea that ultimate peace is
the destruction of the world. The thing about Xander
thinking he's psychic though seemed like a big deal at
the beginning of the novel and then towards the end it
was completely forgotten about, which I found kind of
annoying because I thought it would have had more impact
on the novel. Anyway, it was fun to read, but don't go
looking for depth in this story, because it's pretty much
a straightforward story. |
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