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Angel: City of (Angel) >
Customer Review #1:
 Angel, the Beginning
"Angel, City of", is a novelization of the first episode of the series. Angel has recently moved to L.A. and is saving random victoms. He then meets Doyal, who has a message from The Powers That Be. He is sent to help a potential victom from a particularly nasty vampire. He also meets fellow Sunnydale transplant Cordilia, who is strugling as an actress. I liked the book better than the episode better because it gives a lot of back ground on Angel, even if it mostly referes to episodes from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". I also liked that he drinks the blood of a victom he failed to save, that showed how confliced he still is. All in all I liked this book a lot, short though it is. I recomend it to any fan, even though most fans have probably already read it.
Angel: City of (Angel) >
Customer Review #2:
 Excellent Work by Nancy Holder
This is a great book. A must read for fans of Buffy and Angel. The only problem was a slip up where the author said the Drusilla changed Spike. (It was Angel who did it. A quote from the ep School Hard.. Spike: "You were my sire, man. You were my Yoda!") I rest my case. But it was a really good book, outlining the first episode with some flashbacks set it. A good read, I finished it in about 3 hours..
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Customer Review #3:
What To Do In Los Angeles
By now Angels exodus from Buffy at the end of season three to start again is Los Angeles is cold news. Even so, this novelization of the Angel series premiere still has a considerable amount of power. Here is the initial gathering of Angel, Doyle, and Cordelia - still not quite sure what to do with themselves, but on the road to help the helpless.One of the things that I didnt notice when watching the show, and even on the first reading of Nancy Holders excellent rendition, is that Angel really does recapitulate is initial time in Los Angeles. Not quite as down and out, obviously, but footloose and unsure of himself. He wants to do something, but his past seems to keep his present from happening. Not just his immediate past with Buffy, but his whole experience as a vampire, from Darla and Drusilla onwards. So my first reaction, which was that the script has way to many flashbacks was right, but for the wrong reason - something has to wake Angel from this reverie before he falls into complacent, bad habits and yields to the temptation of human blood. Of course, that is Doyles purpose. Holder manages to fill in the inner details of motivation that are missing from the screenplay. When we watch we have only the spoken word and the expressiveness of the actor to work with. What we have here is a novelization that really does dig beneath the surface to uncover something of the inner workings of Angels mind - as well as provide an impressive amount of history. Ive read my share of novels based on scripts, and, too often, they simply attempt to redeliver the dialog with barely narrative to fill in the action. Holder goes well beyond this simple approach, and this story would live on its own, even if the series premiere never had happened. Whether you saw the season start or not, City of is worth reading.
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