Supernatural: Nevermore
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Titan Books Ltd Number of pages: 336 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) |
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Could do better
Review date: 2008-01-02 Rating: 4 out of 10
I was really looking forward to this novel, being such a big fan of the show, and Edgar Allen Poe. However, I was really disappointed.
Dean Winchester is my favorite character in the show, and he was portrayed as moody and childish. The scene in the bar, when he's trying to avoid talking to Janine, just makes him come off as stupid. The character has more depth than that, and deserved better treatment.
Sam was written better, but in some scenes came of as priggish towards his big brother. This hasn't really been the case since season one.
In all, I felt DeCandido was writing the Winchesters from a description given to him, and not so much from watching the TV show.
But, it's hard to write something like this - especially when you're the first to be published. So I kept with it, hoping the plot would deepen.
It didn't. The idea was a good one; take some of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous tales, and make them into something for the Winchesters to hunt. That's pretty creepy - especially with tales like 'Murder at the Rue Morgue' and 'The Tell Tale Heart' being adapted here. But the author didn't freak me out at all. Maybe because I was already familiar with the stories, I don't know. But about half way through, I stopped giving a crap.
The only reason I managed to finish this, was a friend of mine told me it filled in more of Sam and Dean's background. We do get some nice touches about stuff Sam got up to at uni, but aside from that, nothing memorable.
Honestly, I've read better stuff than this on fan fiction sites. I'd say it was more for teenage readers, than adult fans of the show.
Reviews
Great novel
Review date: 2007-10-07 Rating: 8 out of 10
I really enjoyed this book it was written really well. From the first page you get the idea and image of the two brothers in your head. This book is for any die hard fans of the show and it does tie in well into the programme and you believe that the brothers would do this job, it would work well as an episode for the show. The only down side would be that it did get slow in places and didnt flow well, but apart from the odd bit very enjoyable
quoth the raven
Review date: 2007-10-01 Rating: 6 out of 10
an original novel based on the tv series supernatural, featuring brothers sam and dean winchester who travel the backroads of america dealing with supernatural creatures.
In this story sam and dean head to new york to hunt a ghost for a friend of a friend. at the same time, murders are taking place that seemed to be inspired by the work of edgar allan poe. What sinister forces are at work?
I'm always a bit wary of tie in books as they can either be very good or quick cash in jobs that don't resemble the shows at all. However this is written by keith ra decandido who has done some very good tie in novels in the past, and that was enough to make me buy it.
He writes a superb introduction that summaries why the show is so great, and a great afterword listing the music that's great to listen to whilst reading and that dean might like.
And the writing gets the characters and feel of the show perfectly, with some typically funny dialogue and interplay between the two brothers.
As a story though, this is slightly lacking. it's great for the first one hundred pages, but gets stretched out in the middle with the ghost plot, and then the main one is wrapped up rather quickly at the end. and you will have no trouble guessing who the villain is.
The other big problem is that neither plot line is very scary.
This is a good supernatural novel. It's just not a great one. But it has moments that fans will enjoy
Slightly lacking
Review date: 2007-09-23 Rating: 6 out of 10
I adore the series Supernatural, and thought a tie-in book was an excellent idea... however, whilst the book was an enjoyable enough read it was very standard, lacking the atmosphere and the emotional punch found in the series - especially between the brothers Sam and Dean.
In all honesty, I've read better tie-in stories online.
Winchesters in New York...
Review date: 2007-08-02 Rating: 8 out of 10
It can't be easy to be writing the first tie-in novel for a series that has ended up with such... ahem... 'dedicated' fans as Supernatural, but this turned out to be a very readable book. For the casual viewer of Supernatural, the early chapters might come across as a bit continuity heavy as there are several references to events in the series but it does the job of placing the events in the book between the season 2 episodes "Crossroad Blues" and "Croatoan".
The story is set in New York, something far easier to accomplish in a novel that on a film set in Canada, and one of the fun things in the book was to see the roadtripping Winchesters' reaction to the Big Apple. For the most part, DeCandido's characterisation of Sam and Dean is reassuringly close to how they appear in the series, a detail that writers of tie-in novels too often seem to slip up on. The original characters introduced in the book, including some friends of Ash, don't detract from the focus on the Winchesters. The plot, based around the writing of Edgar Allan Poe (hence the title: Nevermore), is suitably macabre.
It's not literature, and there are a few places where it jars, but for the most part the book keeps close enough to the tone and feel of the series to be an enjoyable read.
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Recording label: Titan Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd
EAN: 9781845769451
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1845769457
Number of pages: 336
Publication date: 2008-06-27
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
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