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Buffyverse Novels #20
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: One Thing or Your Mother
It's tough being a teenage Slayer. On the verge of failing her junior year -- thanks to annoying Principal Snyder, who seems to be acting even stranger than usual lately -- Buffy agrees to meet with a tutor. Not helping her studies is the fact that lately she's been exhausted, waking up each morning feeling more tired than she did the night before. To make matters even worse, she's tasked with investigating the disappearance of a child...a little girl who happens to have gone missing mere hours before a child vampire surfaced in Sunnydale, accompanied by a wheelchair-bound male who fits Spike's description perfectly.
Fighting off exhaustion and uneasy at the prospect of staking a child vamp, Buffy learns that Principal Snyder is the target of a sleep-deprivation spell that has taken over Sunnydale. Putting aside her fear that her tutor is out to get her, and hoping that the sleeping spell is affecting both humans and demons, Buffy investigates Snyder's odd behavior. She follows him to his childhood home to discover that he has arranged to have his abusive mother banished to the demon dimension. Meanwhile, Drusilla, who has been playing mother figure to the child vampire, is learning how difficult it is to be a parent. As sleep takes hold of the citizens of Sunnydale, Buffy begins to realize that unless she breaks the spell soon, the nightmare is just beginning.
Fighting off exhaustion and uneasy at the prospect of staking a child vamp, Buffy learns that Principal Snyder is the target of a sleep-deprivation spell that has taken over Sunnydale. Putting aside her fear that her tutor is out to get her, and hoping that the sleeping spell is affecting both humans and demons, Buffy investigates Snyder's odd behavior. She follows him to his childhood home to discover that he has arranged to have his abusive mother banished to the demon dimension. Meanwhile, Drusilla, who has been playing mother figure to the child vampire, is learning how difficult it is to be a parent. As sleep takes hold of the citizens of Sunnydale, Buffy begins to realize that unless she breaks the spell soon, the nightmare is just beginning.
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First published January 1, 2008
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April 15, 2023
Though this was the last novel in Pocket's long run of original prose books based on the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it's set early in the chronology, during the second season when Angel was busy being Angelus. It's a well-done, thoughtful story, before they went to the apocalypse-of-the-week format. Some nice meditations about motherhood (Drusilla!?), and I liked the skillful way there were references made to future events as well as to previous episodes. Buffy is well portrayed, with an interesting yet realistic interest in her scholastic standing, and we get to see a somewhat sympathetic side of Principal Snyder. It's a fast, fun read, and (as has been said too often about too many), it would have made a good episode on film.
July 12, 2009
Not bad for a Buffy book. This book even read like an episode of Buffy. It seemed to fit into the Buffy universe well and even made Principal Snyder a much more human character. There were a lot of little references to past and future episodes of the show that helped it to “fit,” and the characters were written just like they appear on the show. Not all fan-books (meaning Buffy or Charmed or what-have-you) can do that. Often authors will write about a show and while you are reading it you wonder if the author ever even watched more than a single episode! This one was pretty, good though.
I liked seeing Spike play his role concerning Callie – he is just plain more likeable than Angel and in this book I loved hating Angelus!
The ending kind of dragged on once everything had been “solved,” but like a true Buffy episode it had to fit in those last few witty exchanges that always take place with the Scoobies and the final bit with the Mayor was quite interesting.
I liked seeing Spike play his role concerning Callie – he is just plain more likeable than Angel and in this book I loved hating Angelus!
The ending kind of dragged on once everything had been “solved,” but like a true Buffy episode it had to fit in those last few witty exchanges that always take place with the Scoobies and the final bit with the Mayor was quite interesting.
August 21, 2011
4.5 stars.
A very good Buffy book. Shame this author hasn't written more Buffy novels, she seems to know the show very well.
OToYM takes place after the episode 'I Only Have Eyes For You'.
First off I loved that Buffy was dealing with a normal teenage problem, her failing grades and the interest of her tutor, and at the time also dealing with multiple Slayer issues. So many times I've read a Buffy novel where the author didn't put a believable or any human/normal teenage problem and it would bring the book/story down for me.
I loved Angelus (when don't I?), loved Dru and Spike, and even though I know there was no Callie on the show I wish .
Although there were a few minor issues here and there it wasn't enough to bother much at all.
I'd recommend this book to any Buffy fan, you won't be disappointed.
A very good Buffy book. Shame this author hasn't written more Buffy novels, she seems to know the show very well.
OToYM takes place after the episode 'I Only Have Eyes For You'.
First off I loved that Buffy was dealing with a normal teenage problem, her failing grades and the interest of her tutor, and at the time also dealing with multiple Slayer issues. So many times I've read a Buffy novel where the author didn't put a believable or any human/normal teenage problem and it would bring the book/story down for me.
I loved Angelus (when don't I?), loved Dru and Spike, and even though I know there was no Callie on the show I wish .
Although there were a few minor issues here and there it wasn't enough to bother much at all.
I'd recommend this book to any Buffy fan, you won't be disappointed.
November 20, 2015
BOOKSTORE BARGAIN BINS ARE DISCOUNT POTS OF GOLD AND MUST BE APPRECIATED AS SUCH. Which is how I came across this fun lil' nugget. I have read plenty of these "published fan fiction novels" and a lot of the time they read exactly like badly written fanfic, out of character, plots that simply make no sense in context of the source media or they are just cheesey to the point of unbearable. This one however, was one of the few tie in novels that I have had the pleasure of reading that played out almost like an episode from the show. Not only was everyone in character and the plot entirely believable in the realm of the show, but it managed to reference what had happened and what was yet to come in the show, considering this book was published well after Buffy finished airing and this book was set only in the beginning of the show!
What really made it special for me though was the fact that it humanised Principal Snyder in a way I don't remember the show ever trying to do. The constant descriptions of the size of his ears made me feel even more like this was an episode I was watching rather than reading, since I am a huge Star Trek nerd and always yelled PRINCIPAL QUAAAAARK whenever he was on screen. Also the sub plot with Dru, Angel and spike was excellent. Again props to the author for humanising another character, albeit Spike probably won enough sympathy by the time the show ended, this novel certainly didn't hurt my feelings for him.. heh. The little bit at the end with the mayor made me scream with delight since I did quite enjoy his time on the show, and it also did help tie pull the loose ends of the plot!
Honestly I got WAY more than the 99p I paid for this book and this is just goes to show that no clearance pile should be left untouched. I am a very happy clam about this and now I have high hopes for my other finds from that discount haul........
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What really made it special for me though was the fact that it humanised Principal Snyder in a way I don't remember the show ever trying to do. The constant descriptions of the size of his ears made me feel even more like this was an episode I was watching rather than reading, since I am a huge Star Trek nerd and always yelled PRINCIPAL QUAAAAARK whenever he was on screen. Also the sub plot with Dru, Angel and spike was excellent. Again props to the author for humanising another character, albeit Spike probably won enough sympathy by the time the show ended, this novel certainly didn't hurt my feelings for him.. heh. The little bit at the end with the mayor made me scream with delight since I did quite enjoy his time on the show, and it also did help tie pull the loose ends of the plot!
Honestly I got WAY more than the 99p I paid for this book and this is just goes to show that no clearance pile should be left untouched. I am a very happy clam about this and now I have high hopes for my other finds from that discount haul........
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May 1, 2009
Yes, I miss Buffy so much I'm reduced to reading fan fiction. Did it work with the series? I thought so. Was it good writing? Maybe for juveniles. Serious philosophers write about Buffy and they can't make a book for grown-ups?
August 7, 2020
When I first started this book, I wondered how Beyer was going to thread three apparently disparate plot lines, and also tie them up acceptably within less than 250 pages. Not only did she manage to do it, she did it convincingly and all three stories felt important and were endlessly fascinating.
First, the character voice for Buffy was 100% on point. I have read plenty of Buffy tie-ins that were not, but not only was her dialogue with her friends and her family and with the villains exactly what it would be on the show, but her inner monologue was exactly what her personality should be. This story takes place somewhere around the time frame of 2x20 "Go Fish," but the most recent visual canon event that is mentioned outright is 2x19 "I Only Have Eyes for You." Buffy is struggling with the lesson of forgiveness that she learned from living through the story of James and Grace in this novel, and I love that Beyer makes it that Buffy (even at the book's end) still has not quite reached the point where she can understand Grace's readiness to forgive James. It's very realistic and Beyer does not beat us over the head with Buffy's self pity, but we can still see how her mental state at that point in season 2 is playing into all of her decisions.
Also, I felt bad for Principle Snyder...and that is a sentence I never thought I would say or type. We get a glimpse into his childhood here, and as the novel points out, "It takes a monster to make a monster," and the monster that Snyder could be on the show had to come from somewhere. I also love that, in typical Joss Whedon humor as would be present on the show, we are allowed a moment to feel for Snyder before also laughing at the comeuppance his present monstrous self often brings to himself.
Angelus, Drusilla, and Spike also get an interesting story here. We get quite a few pages of this book dedicated to their dynamic, and the story of the child-vamp Callie also helped solidify the Spike turning against Angelus plot thread that we got in Becoming Part 2. The only part of this whole deal that made me turn my head slightly in confusion was the conversation between Buffy and Spike in the final chapter before the epilogue. In Becoming Part 2, Buffy is genuinely confused when Spike comes to her for a team-up and they manage to hold a conversation without decking each other the whole time. Given that this novel happens only a couple of weeks before that, and Buffy and Spike have a perfectly civil conversation, that makes her confusion in Becoming Part 2 make less sense because it would not have been the first time that happened. It's a small little moment, but given that this story was penned in 2008 (5 years after the show ended), I find it hard to reconcile the obvious discrepancy.
Also, there is a sentence in the book where Spike thinks (in narrative) that Buffy had been on his list of annoyances to get rid of for over a year. This is an obvious time line fault with the show's narrative and does not match up. Spike comes to town in 2x03 "School Hard," which is late September/early October of 1997 (Buffy's junior year, as stated numerous times throughout the novel). This book takes place in late May 1998. It's been less than a year that Spike has been in Sunnydale, and dialogue in School Hard implies that he had no idea a Slayer lived in Sunnydale until the Anointed One told him.
Also, what qualifies as a "child-vamp"? What's the cutoff age? The Anointed One was supposed to be about 9 or 10, and I think Callie was listed as being around 7. What made the Anointed One more acceptable as a mature vampire than Callie?
First, the character voice for Buffy was 100% on point. I have read plenty of Buffy tie-ins that were not, but not only was her dialogue with her friends and her family and with the villains exactly what it would be on the show, but her inner monologue was exactly what her personality should be. This story takes place somewhere around the time frame of 2x20 "Go Fish," but the most recent visual canon event that is mentioned outright is 2x19 "I Only Have Eyes for You." Buffy is struggling with the lesson of forgiveness that she learned from living through the story of James and Grace in this novel, and I love that Beyer makes it that Buffy (even at the book's end) still has not quite reached the point where she can understand Grace's readiness to forgive James. It's very realistic and Beyer does not beat us over the head with Buffy's self pity, but we can still see how her mental state at that point in season 2 is playing into all of her decisions.
Also, I felt bad for Principle Snyder...and that is a sentence I never thought I would say or type. We get a glimpse into his childhood here, and as the novel points out, "It takes a monster to make a monster," and the monster that Snyder could be on the show had to come from somewhere. I also love that, in typical Joss Whedon humor as would be present on the show, we are allowed a moment to feel for Snyder before also laughing at the comeuppance his present monstrous self often brings to himself.
Angelus, Drusilla, and Spike also get an interesting story here. We get quite a few pages of this book dedicated to their dynamic, and the story of the child-vamp Callie also helped solidify the Spike turning against Angelus plot thread that we got in Becoming Part 2. The only part of this whole deal that made me turn my head slightly in confusion was the conversation between Buffy and Spike in the final chapter before the epilogue. In Becoming Part 2, Buffy is genuinely confused when Spike comes to her for a team-up and they manage to hold a conversation without decking each other the whole time. Given that this novel happens only a couple of weeks before that, and Buffy and Spike have a perfectly civil conversation, that makes her confusion in Becoming Part 2 make less sense because it would not have been the first time that happened. It's a small little moment, but given that this story was penned in 2008 (5 years after the show ended), I find it hard to reconcile the obvious discrepancy.
Also, there is a sentence in the book where Spike thinks (in narrative) that Buffy had been on his list of annoyances to get rid of for over a year. This is an obvious time line fault with the show's narrative and does not match up. Spike comes to town in 2x03 "School Hard," which is late September/early October of 1997 (Buffy's junior year, as stated numerous times throughout the novel). This book takes place in late May 1998. It's been less than a year that Spike has been in Sunnydale, and dialogue in School Hard implies that he had no idea a Slayer lived in Sunnydale until the Anointed One told him.
Also, what qualifies as a "child-vamp"? What's the cutoff age? The Anointed One was supposed to be about 9 or 10, and I think Callie was listed as being around 7. What made the Anointed One more acceptable as a mature vampire than Callie?
November 26, 2020
One Thing or Your Mother did a nice thing and referenced an episode of Buffy as just happening a few days ago, so we know this story takes place in between Season 2 Episodes 19 (“I Only Have Eyes For You”) and 20 (“Go Fish”). By this point, Angel is a bad guy, Spike is faking his wheel chair injury, and Buffy’s on Snyder’s radar for possible expulsion. It’s a fun era of Buffy to set a story and author Kirsten Beyer sprinkles in some details to really make it feel like a missing story set in the show.
This one starts with a kid at Sunnydale High stealing one of Giles’s demon books and taking it home to summon a demon. It’s hard to believe Giles would leave a book out with that potential, but then again he’s not the only member of the Scooby gang that gets them out routinely. The demon that gets summoned is unusual in that it resembles an older woman that behaves like a doting mother. The second track of the story involves Drucilla deciding she’d like a child to keep her company, so she kills a little girl and turns her into a vampire. The series flirted with the idea of child victims in “Gingerbread” but never actually went there; here it’s the sort of violent event that can be better explored in prose. (The idea is borrowed straight out of Interview with the Vampire but is wholly original in the Buffy landscape.)
There are small details in these books that really make them work or fail. When they work, it’s taking something from the show and expanding on it without contradicting anything that actually happened on screen. When the opposite happens the books fail. Here, Beyer takes the catalyst of Buffy’s troubles at school and spins a story of her mom requiring her to get a tutor. She also gives a full backstory to Principal Snyder that explains his loyalty to the mayor (which pays off in season 3) and his personality quirks that expand on the version that we’ll meet in “Band Candy” later on. More than that, small details like Xander’s history of eating pig or Willow’s awkwardness at home when her mom discovers crucifixes nailed around the house actually add to actual to the story.
There ends up being a lot going on in this book, but each thing on its own is small enough that you could see it being a Sunnydale occurrence that everybody ignores by the next week. Even the big town wide crisis was resolved quickly enough that it could all be chalked up to a flare-up of mononucleosis (my explanation, not the authors). Beyer takes advantage of writing with hindsight by foreshadowing things that will happen later in the series but not contradicting them. The only time it tilts too far is during a conversation and reveal with Spike and Buffy at the very end, but it stays abstract enough that the lack of a wheelchair was the only thing that gave me pause. That aside, this was one of my favorites Buffy prose books I’ve read so far.
This one starts with a kid at Sunnydale High stealing one of Giles’s demon books and taking it home to summon a demon. It’s hard to believe Giles would leave a book out with that potential, but then again he’s not the only member of the Scooby gang that gets them out routinely. The demon that gets summoned is unusual in that it resembles an older woman that behaves like a doting mother. The second track of the story involves Drucilla deciding she’d like a child to keep her company, so she kills a little girl and turns her into a vampire. The series flirted with the idea of child victims in “Gingerbread” but never actually went there; here it’s the sort of violent event that can be better explored in prose. (The idea is borrowed straight out of Interview with the Vampire but is wholly original in the Buffy landscape.)
There are small details in these books that really make them work or fail. When they work, it’s taking something from the show and expanding on it without contradicting anything that actually happened on screen. When the opposite happens the books fail. Here, Beyer takes the catalyst of Buffy’s troubles at school and spins a story of her mom requiring her to get a tutor. She also gives a full backstory to Principal Snyder that explains his loyalty to the mayor (which pays off in season 3) and his personality quirks that expand on the version that we’ll meet in “Band Candy” later on. More than that, small details like Xander’s history of eating pig or Willow’s awkwardness at home when her mom discovers crucifixes nailed around the house actually add to actual to the story.
There ends up being a lot going on in this book, but each thing on its own is small enough that you could see it being a Sunnydale occurrence that everybody ignores by the next week. Even the big town wide crisis was resolved quickly enough that it could all be chalked up to a flare-up of mononucleosis (my explanation, not the authors). Beyer takes advantage of writing with hindsight by foreshadowing things that will happen later in the series but not contradicting them. The only time it tilts too far is during a conversation and reveal with Spike and Buffy at the very end, but it stays abstract enough that the lack of a wheelchair was the only thing that gave me pause. That aside, this was one of my favorites Buffy prose books I’ve read so far.
January 9, 2021
“One Thing of Your Mother” is Kirsten Beyer’s incursion into the Buffyverse. Kristen Beyer is well known as ‘Star Trek Voyager’ writer and later producer of the “Jesus Maria Michael (Burnham)” Show… sorry I mean to say STD (Star Trek Discovery).
I’ve read some of Beyer’s ‘Voyager’ books, they are outstanding, but let us get back to “One Thing of Your Mother”; this is a story set in Sunnydale after 2x19 ‘I Only Have Eyes for You’, at the end of the school year, and populated with characters of the show, that intends to blend three different subplots into one. The main plot follows Buffy trying to find a missing girl, which somehow ties with the arrival of a child vampire accompanied by someone that seems to be a dead-ringer for Spike in a wheelchair and her ‘mommy dearest’ (aka Drusilla). The two subplots pertain Gilles and Willow, I insist in pertain instead of follow because in fact both are GNDN to stay true to Beyer’s Star Trek roots.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good story, with a tendency to horror and psychological motherhood tropes, but it’s not at heart a Buffy story, is set in the right location, the characters have the right names and the multiple hints to episodes in the show give it a sense of belonging to the verse, it just plain and clear does not. Some critics allude to the ‘added details that were missing in the show’, which in itself clarifies the wrongness of the statement. Beyer had a very good story idea, and wrote it, I just wish it had written it by itself without trying to put the Buffyverse cast into a mold they don’t fit. It you can overlook this fact, this is a good story, with enough suspense to make it thrilling, occasionally horror moments and interesting twists. This is a book difficult to rate: by itself it would be a five, as a Buffy book merely a three, thus I will roll the dice and go with four.
Kristin Beyer frequently mentions to have written “the last Buffy book ever”, this statement has two flaws, first it doesn’t really means what she thinks it does; secondly, it is only true until the next book comes around, I know that it has been twelve years already, but that is hardly ‘ever’. If there is something Buffy does not need is an epitaph! Truthfully Kirsten Beyer has written a book set in the Buffyverse.
I’ve read some of Beyer’s ‘Voyager’ books, they are outstanding, but let us get back to “One Thing of Your Mother”; this is a story set in Sunnydale after 2x19 ‘I Only Have Eyes for You’, at the end of the school year, and populated with characters of the show, that intends to blend three different subplots into one. The main plot follows Buffy trying to find a missing girl, which somehow ties with the arrival of a child vampire accompanied by someone that seems to be a dead-ringer for Spike in a wheelchair and her ‘mommy dearest’ (aka Drusilla). The two subplots pertain Gilles and Willow, I insist in pertain instead of follow because in fact both are GNDN to stay true to Beyer’s Star Trek roots.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good story, with a tendency to horror and psychological motherhood tropes, but it’s not at heart a Buffy story, is set in the right location, the characters have the right names and the multiple hints to episodes in the show give it a sense of belonging to the verse, it just plain and clear does not. Some critics allude to the ‘added details that were missing in the show’, which in itself clarifies the wrongness of the statement. Beyer had a very good story idea, and wrote it, I just wish it had written it by itself without trying to put the Buffyverse cast into a mold they don’t fit. It you can overlook this fact, this is a good story, with enough suspense to make it thrilling, occasionally horror moments and interesting twists. This is a book difficult to rate: by itself it would be a five, as a Buffy book merely a three, thus I will roll the dice and go with four.
Kristin Beyer frequently mentions to have written “the last Buffy book ever”, this statement has two flaws, first it doesn’t really means what she thinks it does; secondly, it is only true until the next book comes around, I know that it has been twelve years already, but that is hardly ‘ever’. If there is something Buffy does not need is an epitaph! Truthfully Kirsten Beyer has written a book set in the Buffyverse.
January 28, 2018
Okay, as I said in a Star Trek Book review what I expect from a licensed book is different from what I expect from actual literature. All I ask from licensed material is that it would make a good episode (or multi-episode arc or movie) of the series it is adapting.
One Thing or Your Mother Doesn't Do that. It has a good plot going that is interesting enough. Actually it has five and it is trying to tell them all in about 300 pages. The real problem is that two of them feel like they could and probably should be in another book all together and they aren't even finish. Another tries really hard to be the main story. It makes a valiant effort. Plus the attempt to humanize Principal Snyder is cool in theory but since licensed books are often prohibited from making serious changes to the character it was ultimately pointless. On top of that, the ending of the book sort of undoes and sense of empathy for poor 'Cecil' Snyder that it creates.
As for the other two plots, well they are what Star Trek fans refer to as GNDN (Goes Nowhere Does Nothing). They could have been taken out and given room for Willow or Giles's subplots to grow a little more. Or the weird demon obsessed kid. But oh well.
One Thing or Your Mother Doesn't Do that. It has a good plot going that is interesting enough. Actually it has five and it is trying to tell them all in about 300 pages. The real problem is that two of them feel like they could and probably should be in another book all together and they aren't even finish. Another tries really hard to be the main story. It makes a valiant effort. Plus the attempt to humanize Principal Snyder is cool in theory but since licensed books are often prohibited from making serious changes to the character it was ultimately pointless. On top of that, the ending of the book sort of undoes and sense of empathy for poor 'Cecil' Snyder that it creates.
As for the other two plots, well they are what Star Trek fans refer to as GNDN (Goes Nowhere Does Nothing). They could have been taken out and given room for Willow or Giles's subplots to grow a little more. Or the weird demon obsessed kid. But oh well.
August 3, 2017
Pretty good as far as Buffy novels go. The author goes to great lengths to make the story fit with the rest of Season 2. It's also way more generous with descriptions, something most Buffy novels lack. Recommend if you enjoy the series, but if you're a fan of the Angelus days this is a must read.
March 7, 2024
Really enjoyed this. Definitely a well thought out Buffy story that could have happened. I liked the horror aspect of it with the demon descriptions etc. Dru’s … project … was interesting to read about as it’ a rarity. Characters were written really well and had the nostalgia of Buffy. Loved it.
May 17, 2019
Review to come.
July 5, 2020
I was confused the entire thing. The summary barely had anything to do with the book.
December 29, 2023
A quick fast paced Buffy book. Set in late season 2. The author does a good job getting the witty banter and character dynamics down. Reads just like an episode.
April 12, 2018
I enjoyed this Buffy tie-in novel. It was actually better than I was expecting. It was set at the tail end of Season 2 after Episode 19.
There were a few different things going on with this book including a demon that was gradually putting all of Sunnydale to sleep, Drusilla who decided she wanted a child and turned a little girl into a vampire as well as Buffy being assigned a tutor to help with her studies.
I liked this book, it was done well, everything came together nicely and it tied in lovely with the series. I especially got the right character feel for Drusilla, Spike and Angel. Season 2 was one of my favourites and this was a good tie-in novel in the Buffyverse.
4 stars. enjoyable quick read.
There were a few different things going on with this book including a demon that was gradually putting all of Sunnydale to sleep, Drusilla who decided she wanted a child and turned a little girl into a vampire as well as Buffy being assigned a tutor to help with her studies.
I liked this book, it was done well, everything came together nicely and it tied in lovely with the series. I especially got the right character feel for Drusilla, Spike and Angel. Season 2 was one of my favourites and this was a good tie-in novel in the Buffyverse.
4 stars. enjoyable quick read.
October 8, 2013
One of the thing I love most about Buffy books is the fact they are usually written by people from the show. This makes it so much easier to read as the characters mannerisms which we have come to know and love are found in every page. This particular book I enjoyed as it incorporated storyline's from Season Two and Three, I would have given it 5 stars but it fell short with a slightly weak ending involving the character Todd and Buffy. Not a bad read though and I'd recommend it to any fan of the TV series.
December 14, 2012
I'm giving this book 4 stars because it did exactly what I wanted it to do... It was quickly read, so that i could add to my goal of trying to read 100 books in 2012. :) It wasn't great, but I was able to picture the characters actually behaving the way they were portrayed in the book, and some of the quips were actually witty. Was it a great book? No. Was it fun? Sure!
December 27, 2011
This book was okay. Not the best Buffy book I've read, but still good. Was displeased by the lack of knowledge with spelling with the Order of Taraka, which she spelled "Tiracca," and Revello Drive spelled "Ravello". Good storyline and character lines.
August 29, 2013
This Buffy book by Beyer was a very good read. The characters and the plot were well developed and the story was good. This is a typical Buffy book, one that her fans will enjoy.
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the Isms" and "Wesley's Wars"
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the Isms" and "Wesley's Wars"
September 27, 2013
One of my favorite Buffy books.
There are some continuity errors, but that didn't prevent me for finishing it.
The characters are very well written and it has a nice story with multiple plot twists.
The story takes place in season 2 of Buffy (When Angel is Angelus)
There are some continuity errors, but that didn't prevent me for finishing it.
The characters are very well written and it has a nice story with multiple plot twists.
The story takes place in season 2 of Buffy (When Angel is Angelus)
February 19, 2015
Another well done Buffy tale! This time we get some background on Mr. Snyder, the principal that nobody deserves.The show may be long gone, but at least now I can work my way through the Buffy books, the Angel books, and the Unseen books.
June 26, 2011
Really well written. Great continuation of the show. The characters sound just like they do on TV.
October 21, 2013
Read just like an episode of the show.
February 25, 2019
Season 2 era, nice!
February 14, 2008
There was some specific stuff about Snyder's toes that I liked a lot.
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