Despite the last three volumes having different writers they’ve all held deliciously true to the Buffy-verse while not letting the storyline becoming dull or repetitive. With this addition the story moves the focus back to Buffy and to the large story arc, Buffy vs the mysterious Twilight. Except it moves at this plot from a […]
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Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate
May 17, 2013Likely my favorite volume of Buffy so far, Book Three starts off with Buffy finding out about the major plot from the last volume, the lingering number of Slayers who have escaped her tutelage and have become something other than the first line of defense against evil. But before Buffy and the gang have time […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You
May 10, 2013If Buffy, the petite pop-modern vampire slayer wasn’t enough for you this second volume from Joss Whedon’s “Season Eight” of Buffy brings tortured, anti-heroine slayer Faith back into play in a role even more suited to her than vampire and demon slaying. Part of the draw of the Buffy-verse is the balance of darkness and […]
The Long Way Home doesn’t start exactly where the last television season of Buffy left off, instead it starts a little past that, after Buffy and her crew have restarted their lives. In some ways, things are very different, but in others, they’re exactly the same. Each character seems to have taken a level of […]
Review: Ghost Heart by Yvonne Navarro and Weston Ochse
April 29, 2013What to say about Ghost Heart? It’s so hard to review a book that’s genuinely more of an experience than a read. It’s the story of Matt, a boy facing the break up of his parents and watching his friend’s ghostly guardian spirit fade as she grows up, as he tries desperately to stop time […]
Review: Bloody Valentine by Melissa de la Cruz
April 9, 2013Bloody Valentine isn’t a full book in the Blue Bloods series. It’s a side book, fan service and an effort to fill in some empty blanks in the story. There are three novelettes between these covers. Just Another Night in Suck City deals with Oliver, his struggle to fight both the bond between he and […]
From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender
August 9, 2012Hyperion, 2011 ISBN: 9781423134718 Available: hard back & multi format digital If anyone was likely to fall in with a cult of beauty-enhancing Donna Reeds it wouldn’t be Alexis. Even less if it was lead by an evil spirit, because Alexis just started recovering from the trauma of last year, when her sister was possessed […]
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
February 29, 2012I remember when my Theater Arts teacher recommended Weetzie Bat (side note, he also recommended Poppy Z. Brite to me, both of whom significantly shaped my fiction and writing tastes). I remember thinking what a weird title and giggling. But then he let me borrow it. What a weird tale. Weetzie Bat is a teen/young […]
Night World #8: Witchlight by L.J. Smith
February 23, 2012Keller is a werepanther born in half form who never really knew a loving family. She was rescued by Circle Daybreak and their cause. Now as teen she’s thrown herself into trying to be the perfect Circle Daybreak field agent. She has little room for anything else, which is probably why she’s rather annoyed that […]
Night World #7: Black Dawn by L.J. Smith
February 21, 2012Smith tries to keep her Night World books interesting, despite the presence of the soulmate principle as a major plot point in each one. In Black Dawn things get shaky (for me). Maggie, an ordinary-type teen who adores her older brother, knows something’s wrong when her brother goes missing with only his girlfriend’s word detailing […]