The Supernatural Novels

[starrylizard]

Are they any good?

I never really thought to pick one up before, but since I'm doing a rewatch, I was thinking I could read them as I rewatch. I read all the XFiles novels back in the day and the Primeval novels were action-packed. But I never read fan fiction for those shows.

So now that my Kindle is finally working again, is it worth buying any of them, or would I be better off just downloading more fanfic off A03? Are some much better than others? Do they really fit into canon? If they're even half decent I'll likely give them a go.

Thoughts welcome from anyone who has read them and has any opinion on them. No spoilers though, please. :D

Comments

[smalltrolven.livejournal.com]

I have not read them all, and don't plan to. I found a couple were okay, but they were not canon compliant with the show which took me right out of the story trying to work out how the details fit together within the ongoing story of the show. Several of the plots were great though, things they couldn't do on a tv show. The characterizations of the brothers vary wildly from book to book and are not at all consistent. I honestly have enjoyed some of the better casefic fan written stories. ymmv

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear you. I've bought one to try (and avoided Keith DeCandido) as mentioned above. The other shows I bought novels for, I wasn't really into the fic, so I had no comparison for them. Should be interesting. Thanks for your input! :D