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Buffy The Vampire: The Cordelia Collection Volume 1 by Nancy Krulik
01/02/2003 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 178 page paperback. Price: £ 5.99 (UK). ISBN: 0-7434-5060-4. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.simonsays.co.uk
We cannot get enough of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and this particular novel is aimed at the younger viewers and readers.
It centres on the lovely Cordelia, the shallow homecoming queen, who eventually becomes part of Buffy's entourage and finally is mature enough to cope with the disastrous financial downfall of her parents, leave Sunnydale and make her way in Los Angeles.
This novelisation is an attempt to take three plots over the first three series of 'Buffy' and show how they affected Cordelia. In other words they follow her development from self-centred bitch queen to a living-breathing girl who has to exist in the real world. The plots of choice are 'Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight', 'Some Assembly Required' and 'Homecoming'.
Throughout these Cordelia develops until, when she is mistaken for Faith and caught up in a 'slayerfest', she comes into her own becoming the character she will be in the spin-off programme 'Angel'.
The three segments follow the original television script with description of the characters when necessary. There are framing sequences where Cordelia sips her mocha and contemplates where she is up to now and that's about it.
It is readable, just, and coming in at 178 pages is not overly long. However, I think the readers deserve better than this cheaply made rehash of plot from the show. There are better novels in the 'Buffy' genre but most are purely to make money out of the audience that will buy all that is 'Buffy'.
More effort needed, see me after school.
Sue Davies
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