Author: Christa Faust
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
ISBN-10: 1781163111
ISBN-13: 978-1781163115
Synopsis:
The critically acclaimed Fringe television series explores the dramatic and grotesque as impossible crimes are investigated by the government’s shadowy Fringe Division, established when Special Agent Olivia Dunham enlisted institutionalized “fringe” scientist Walter Bishop and his globe-trotting son, Peter, to help in investigations that defy all human logic – and the laws of nature.
Author Christa Faust (Choke Hold, Supernatural) is working hand-in-hand with the television writers to create new adventures uncovering the secrets of the series. The first novel revealed how Walter Bishop and William Bell discovered the drug Cortexiphan–and the alternate universe! Book two will explore how Olivia Dunham first was subjected to Cortexiphan experiments, with catastrophic results.
Faust has been given unprecedented access to stories that have not been told on-screen, but weave directly into the series canon, much as Joss Whedon’s Buffy graphic novels continue that series’ official storyline.
Fringe: The Burning Man is the second in a three part series from author, Christa Faust, that dives into the world of the television show Fringe. If you missed our review of the first book that was centered on Walter Bishop, William Bell and Nina Sharp in their college years, entitled Fringe: The Zodiac Paradox, you can find that review here. Even though this is the second book in the series, it has nothing to do with the first book in any way, so you could easily pick this up without having read the first one.
This book centers on Olivia Dunham. It starts in her elementary school years and then skips to when she is 16 and stays there for most of the story. Fans of the show will know that Olivia was the subject of drug experiments when she was a child with the drug Cortexiphan at the hands of Water Bishop. The book stays true to the cannon that she’s not aware on any special abilities as a result of those tests until she is reuinted with Walter on the Fringe team, but goes into accidental cases of her “powers” misfiring throughout her adolescence.
This book assumes that you’ve already watched the show and know what she will be eventually capable of. I enjoyed it much more than the first book, but I could strike that up to having been a girl who lived through adolescence (sadly, without any special abilities) and I can easily relate to the mind set.
Fringe: The Burning Man is a very quick, fun read that adds to the richness of the Fringe world and I would highly recommend that you pick it up if you are a fan of the series.
I give Fringe: The Burning Man Five Out of Five Stars.
Fringe: The Burning Man is available on Amazon! Here’s link!
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