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The Gatekeeper
Trilogy Volume 1: Out of the Madhouse -Written
by Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
-367 Pages
-January 1999
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Summary: While Giles is in Manhattan
for a librarian's meeting, the Scooby Gang finds that
Sunnydale is suddenly overrun by demons. Meanwhile Giles'
hotel room in Manhattan is ransacked and he gets
assaulted, which leads to him ending up in the hospital.
Miss Tomasi, a fellow Watcher, tries to warn him of
something but disappears. Eventually Giles makes it back
to Sunnydale. There they discover that portals from
another realm are opening in Sunnydale which caused the
drastic increase in the demon population. Giles figures
that there must be something wrong at the Gatehouse, a
huge mansion that is infested with demons but kept under
control by Jacques Regnier, a wizened sorcerer called the
Gatekeeper. Giles, Buffy, Xander and Cordelia fly to
Boston where the Gatehouse is located, while Willow, Oz
and Angel remain in Sunnydale to ward off demons and the
Sons of Entropy that seem to be stalking the Slayer.
After Angel captures two Songs of Entropy, he learns, by
beating them, that their boss, Il Maestro, is planning on
opening the gates to other dimensions to let the demons
run loose on the earth with the sons of Entropy as their
kings and their immediate plan is to take over the
Gatehouse in order to do this. Oz takes off to Boston to
warn Buffy of the Sons of Entropy. Meanwhile in the
Gatehouse the gang is fighting off hordes of demons and
they somehow manage to survive. Xander locates the
Gatekeepers who manages to regain control of the
Gatehouse by securing the demons in their rooms with his
magick. The Gatekeeper is frail and on the verge of
death, only by immersing himself in the Cauldron of Bran
the Blessed, can he continue to live past his 142 years.
To keep the Gatehouse in order they must find his son who
is somewhere in Europe. They decide to take the ghost
roads, which are wrinkles in time, but they only allow
beings touched by the supernatural to travel them. Oz
takes the ghost road back to Sunnydale to get Angel, when
they make it back to the mansion they discover that it's
under attack. The spell fueled by her friends and Angel's
love must work its magick with the Gatekeeper's help in
order to save Buffy's life |
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Rating: 4.5/5 |
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Review: Awesome story! It would have
been awesome to see this on TV! Or even better, maybe as
a trilogy of movies. Beautifully written and absolutely
captivating with wonderful ideas thrown into the mix. I
loved the ghost roads and how Oz saw Kendra and Angel saw
Jenny. It was startlingly saddening to read Angel weeping
tears of blood for Jenny, not to mention touching. Oz,
for the first time that I can recall, was well written
and fit exactly into his character mold that had been set
out by the TV show. There was so much atmosphere in this
novel and all this magick stuff made for an extremely
interesting book. I'm looking forward to the next two
books in this trilogy as there are so many questions and
very few answers! |
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