Door To Alternity

 Unseen: Volume 1: Door To Alternity

-Written by Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte
- 301 Pages
- July 2001
 

Summary: In Los Angeles, Angel and Buffy compares notes and realize that both of them are dealing with cases of missing teenagers - most of them are children of the rich and powerful. Coincidence? They don't think so. But when Buffy checks in with Giles, she learns that prime time doomsday has hit Sunnydale, taking precedence over the gang warfare in LA.

Back in Sunnydale, Buffy finds the gateway through which the monsters are gaining all access passes to our universe. These gateways are controlled by renegade scientists who have discovered how to manipulate time and dimensional portals from one reality to the next, which could explain where the teens are hidden. But something goes wrong and nothing ever comes out of these gateways the same way that they went in. Now they come out bent and destroyed.

Alina is the only child that can control these portals but either she's lost her control or something in the Hellmouth is breaking these barriers. Buffy and Angel must go into the portal and see if they can salvage any of the children left on the inside.
   
  Rating: 2.5/5
   
  Review: Unfortunately, this series isn't really drawing much of my attention. I don't really have much interest for portals that lead to other dimensions. But we don't really know where these portals lead so maybe it could turn out better in the third book. These books seem to be lacking something; I think it may be the characters which don't seem to be written too well. This novel as well is slow, not as much as the first one was but still a little slow with the pick up. The end does hold some promise because Buffy and Angel are going into the portal together. But in all honesty, I'm not too excited about picking up the third volume in this trilogy.
   
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