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 […]
Bloodline by Kate Cary
May 22, 2013Razorbill, 2005 ISBN: 1595140123 Available: New and Used Set in World War I, Bloodline tells the tale of the descendants of the the characters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The story follows John Shaw, a British soldier fighting under the mysterious Captain Quincy Harker. Sent home after he is wounded, Nursed back to health by the […]
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 […]
High School Bites by Liza Conrad
May 15, 2013Penguin Group, 2006 ISBN: 0451217527 Available: New In High School Bites, Liza Conrad breathes a little fresh air into the growing subgenre of “chick-lit with fangs.” The bones of the story aren’t original- teenage girl with friends slightly outside the norm discovers she’s a vampire slayer, and a master vampire, with unimaginative minions, is out […]
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 […]
Uninvited by Amanda Marrone
May 8, 2013Uninvited by Amanda Marrone Simon Pulse, 2007 ISBN: 1416939784 Availabile: New Uninvited is a much darker story than the typical YA vampire fare. Jordan, a troubled teen, is being visited by her ex-boyfriend Michael, now a vampire, who waits outside her window every night begging her to invite him in. This isn’t a love story, […]
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: Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee
May 3, 2013Tanaquil was born in a fortress, to a powerful sorceress who rules the desert land. And it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. She’s a failure as a sorceress herself. Her mother’s magic leaks all over the castle making life one chaotic inconvenience. Speaking of which, she’s little more than an inconvenience herself, unable […]
Mirrorstone,2008 ISBN: 9780786950287 Available: New In Sucks to Be Me, Mina is the teenaged human daughter of a pair of vampires, who have hidden her existence. Once she’s discovered, the regional vampire council is adamant that Mina decide if she wants to be turned into a vampire. As if the stress of attending “vampire class” […]
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 […]