'Tis the Season

Beverly Hills 90210 #5

by Mel Gilden

While the Walsh family tries to make the best of a California Christmas, Dylan struggles to forgive his father and Donna wrestles with her romantic feelings for David.

Genres: Young Adult, Christmas

Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Mel Gilden is the author of many children's books, some of which received rave reviews in such places as School Library Journal and Booklist. His multi-part stories for children appeared frequently in the Los Angeles Times. His popular novels and short stories for grown-ups have also received good reviews in the Washington Post and other publications. (See new publications under his name at the Kindle Store of Amazon.com.)
Licensed properties include adaptations of feature films, and of TV shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210; and NASCAR Racers. He has also written books based on video games and has written original stories based in the Star Trek universe. His short stories have appeared in many original and reprint anthologies.
He has written cartoons for TV, has developed new shows, and was assistant story editor for the DIC television production of The Real Ghostbusters. He consulted at Disney and Universal, helping develop theme park attractions. Gilden spent five years as co-host of the science-fiction interview show, Hour-25, on KPFK radio in Los Angeles.
Gilden lectures to school and library groups, and has been known to teach fiction writing. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where the debris meets the sea, and still hopes to be an astronaut when he grows up.

Reviews

[Danielle Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little corny but it sure took me back to my 90210 days!

[Karschtl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Habe ich bei den vorherigen Büchern dieser Reihe angemerkt, dass es sich ausschließlich um Brenda und Brandon dreht, geht es in diesem Band 2/3 der Zeit nur um Steve. Ein bisschen viel. Und um "Herzklopfen" geht es auf keiner einzigen Seite, der Titel ist absolut falsch gewählt. Im Original heißt das Buch "'Tis the season", und das passt zu 100%, denn alle Ereignisse finden rund um Weihnachten statt. Und passend zum Feiertag wird es auch äußerst schmalzig und rührend und noch mehr schmalzig. Auch davon gab es für meinen Geschmack etwas zu viel.

[Katt Hansen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah Christmas, the time of year for all the characters of your best beloved TV show to grapple with heavy problems that they all try to carry alone for the sake of Story and then because they are grappling so hard in lonely places they wind up inadvertently creating massive amounts of Drama until they come together and realize that the solution to all their problems lies with each other.

Yes, by now I'm cynical. I have no idea why I read this series. I'm done. Seriously. I quit now.

[Jesse Adler-Wheeler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an all around good book. Had a very happy message at the end and of course the gang never disappointed!

[Nicolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite of the novelizations, but I love 90210 and Christmas books, so I still had a good time. I did enjoy the focus on Steve in this one.

I got the chance to interview author Mel Gilden on his 90210 books for the 9021 Here We G0 podcast. Find it here: https://soundcloud.com/9021hereweg0/i...

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[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Drama, drama, drama!!!!! So much drama going on for a group of high school kids. It was like a regular high school on steroids but it did touch on a lot of problems kids can face. It was very entertaining.

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