{"id":879,"date":"2015-05-19T03:29:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=879"},"modified":"2015-05-03T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T01:39:05","slug":"review-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-ring-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/250px-Ring_of_Fire_Buffy_Comic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-881\" alt=\"250px-Ring_of_Fire_(Buffy_Comic)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/250px-Ring_of_Fire_Buffy_Comic-193x300.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/250px-Ring_of_Fire_Buffy_Comic-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/250px-Ring_of_Fire_Buffy_Comic.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>Set during the &#8220;Angel is Evil&#8221; saga in the series (mid-late second season) Ring of Fire explains the commented on, but never really explained plot point in Undays of our Lives where Dru leaves Spike! I had always wondered on rewatching the series what exactly happened between the murderous lovers.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Dru leaves Spike for a bigger bad, the demonic samurai that Dru, Spike and Angelus set out to summon in this story.<\/p>\n<p>This book also includes a little butt kicking from the rarely seen Kendra, and also an awesome little side story of Giles trying to cope with Jenny Calender&#8217;s death. If you&#8217;re a fan this is definitely one to try to find \u00a0copy of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set during the &#8220;Angel is Evil&#8221; saga in the series (mid-late second season) Ring of Fire explains the commented on, but never really explained plot point in Undays of our Lives where Dru leaves Spike! I had always wondered on rewatching the series what exactly happened between the murderous lovers. Turns out Dru leaves Spike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,76,8,20],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-graphic-novels","category-vampires","category-ya-books","tag-buffy-the-vampire-slayer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}