Prophecies

By Christopher Golden

Buffy Summers' adjustment to life at U.S. Sunnydale has not gone smoothly. She feels awkward, insecure, and a bit jealous that Willow's all over the college life. So when the spirit of deceased Slayer Lucy Hanover appears to Buffy in a dream with news of impending danger, the timing couldn't be worse.
Besides, there's plenty of evil afoot as it is. A unified troop of vampires has descended upon Sunnydale, operating with a cohesion unusual to most bloodsuckers. Giles thinks a spell will help the gang combat these foes, but tension between Buffy and Willow gets in the way of demon hunting.
Before long, a single moment of bad judgment catapults Buffy into an alternate future dimension where vampires reign supreme. Imprisoned in the body of her 24-tear-old self, the Slayer must uncover her past misstep and correct it -- or risk facing a terrifying monster that she herself has created...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Release date: Sep 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781534421288

Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Of Saints and Shadows, The Myth Hunters, Snowblind, Ararat, and Strangewood. With Mike Mignola, he cocreated the comic book series Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. He lives in Bradford, Massachusetts. 

Reviews for Prophecies

[philsyphe · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Believe I read this novel during the latter part of 2002.Thinking back 13 years, I recall Buffy's "present" soul being transported and trapped into her future self when she's in a world turned sour. It was like a tragedy on some ways during the scenes set in the future, but the reader knows Buffy will find a way to return to the present and sort out all the problems, and finding out how she does so is the interesting part.I was engaged rather than enthralled by this, but it certainly was worth reading.

[emscape · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The first in a quadrilogy entitled "The Lost Slayer" begins like your average Buffy plot: new Big Bad shows up in town with freaky acolytes and tries to take on the Slayer. Giles even gets knocked out! But then, in the last chapter the story turns incredibly interesting. I won't spoil it for you, but it's incredibly tantalizing. And nearly impossible to have portrayed on the small screen. A big complaint I've had with several of the Buffy novels is that it's either a novelization of an actual episode with just a little extra thrown in (deleted scenes, if you will) or that it could've been an episode but didn't make the cut, for obvious reasons. But this, this is something different, and I'm very interested as to how it plays out. It's also gratifying that Golden writes these characters so well. You can almost hear the actors voicing the dialogue.