Apocalypse Memories
By Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz
Willow is back in Sunnydale, but she's terrified: She knows her powers will be needed soon, but she's afraid that if she uses them,
it's back to being the Big Bad. She can feel something strange happening, but the other Scoobies don't seem to notice. Everybody's dealing
with their own issues--Buffy's got a new crush, Dawn and Buffy have been bickering, and Xander's intent on getting Willow to use her magicks again.Willow's instincts are right on. A wolf in sheep's clothing has set off a series of freakish events: rivers running with blood, flash storms, and the arrival of an unbelievable supernatural being. The apocalypse has begun. While the world falls to pieces around them, the Scoobies--including Giles, back from England--have to decide what is most important to them. There's one hope: a secret spell with dangerous side effects. But is Willow ready to use her powers?
I didn't like the fact that Giles had returned to Sunnydale though. They explained that Giles had come back to check on Willow, because he hadn't heard if the Scoobies had found her, but it didn't go along with the show. On the show, Buffy hadn't seen Giles, since he left with Willow at the end of season 6. Also (***THIS IS KIND OF A SPOILER***) I thought the cause of the apocalypse was kind of stupid, though kind of funny too!
The Book of Fours
By Nancy Holder
From a place of nightmares--which Buffy and Faith share--a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off disaster. Clearly, the big evil is linkied to the Slayers' nightmares,
which revolve around four figures: one burning, one dripping wet, one covered in mud, one shrouded in windswept linen. Each carries a box of grafted skin and bone. Giles learns
that the last Slayer to encounter a similar container was India Cohen--Buffy's immediate predecessor.Strangely, Buffy has never given much thought to the young girl whose death activated her own Slayerdom, but now she must draw on the strength of those who came before her. For Buffy is being stalked by a monstrous force that journeys through time, fortifying itself by draining the primal power of a Slayer. Buffy must orient herself on a continuum against evil that predates even humanity itself...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Movie Novelization)
By Richie Tankersley Cusick
The fourth teenage girl in L.A. has disappeared in less than two months! But Buffy's oblivious. She's brainstorming a theme for the senior dance. One nightmare later, she meets a stranger names Merrick who tells her she bears the mark of the order: only she--the Pom-Pom Princess of California cheerleaders--can stop the vampires before they engulf L.A. They're everywhere... she can't even trust her best friends! Merrick has brought her knowledge, physical and mental powers beyond her wildest dreams, and a terrifying enemy: Lothos, King of Vampires, who is determined to have Buffy for himself! All she has are a stake, and a cross and a mission: destroy the evil--even if it takes her own life!
Deep Water
By Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman
Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat.
While climbing over some rocks, she discovers another unexpected victim of the spillage--a selkie, a shape-shifting seal girl who won't be able to return to the sea until the oil is removed
from her coat. Willow takes the creature back to the library so that Giles and the Slayerettes can help her restore her magickal coat. However, though "Ariel" as the posse dubs her, is endearing in her innocence, Buffy can't quite shake the innate suspicions of the creature whose nature, like the ocean, is ever changing.
Unfortunately, the spill has forced more than a selkie from the cold water. Merrows look very much like traditional mermaids-- with one important and fatal difference. As if things weren't complicated enough.
The Harvest
By Richie Tankersley Cusick
Something's wrong in Sunnydale, California...something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and stop the spread of their evil and swell of their numbers. In this
generation, she is Buffy Summers, 16 years onld and a new student at Sunnydale High. Her experiences at her last school persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life of a normal teenager. But it is no coincidence that Buffy has come to this town at this time. The area is a center of mystical energy, and all the signs point to an imminent, crucial upheaval.
Once in a century comes The Harvest: a night when the Master Vampire can draw enough power to break free and open the portal between his world an ours...unleashing havoc. With the help of new friends and a new Watcher, Buffy's back in business...
Little Things
By Rebecca Moesta
Since her mother's death, Buffy Summers has had a hard time keeping her chin up. Suddenly finding herself alone and in charge of Dawn is certainly daunting, and being responsible at the same time, for saving the world...well, it's pressure. And lately the Slayer is feeling bogged down by the
little things.Buffy has a toothache, but no dental insurance...as if her financial problems weren't overwhelming enough already. And Anya and Xander are being held hostage in their own home by a plague of ants. Everyone is determined not to sweat the small stuff- until Spike discovers economy-sized evil wrecking havoc in Weatherly Park. Mini-Monsters are perfectly capable of mega-trouble, and in order to stop them, the Slayer's going to have to think...small!
2. Susan Skidmore (9)- I loved this book. It's set after Buffy's mom died as tells of how she is coping. And Spike is there everywhere she goes and tells her about the vampire pixies.
The Lost Slayer
By Christopher Golden
2. Kayleigh (10)- I LOVED this book! I couldn't put it down. It is actually 4 books in one volume. (The one I have is!) I t was so great that I just couldn't stop reading it. And you can do so much more stuff in a book than you can on T.V!
Queen of the Slayers
By Nancy Holder
With the closing of the Hellmouth and the awakening of hundreds of potential slayers, Buffy Summers thought she had earned herslef a much-deserved break. But the thrill of victory is short-lived. The forces of darkness are not ones to graciously accept defeat, and the collective rage unites disparate and powerful parties more eager than ever to relaim dominance.Willow's magickal distribution of the Slayer essence left girls across the world discovering their latent power. Giles races to reorganize the now much-needed Watchers Council, and the Scoobies relocate to Europe. And there, in Rome, Buffy is drawn to the Immortal- a charismatic, if inscrutable, figure. But then comes word that a number of fresh Slayers are being coerced to join an army of Slayers governed by the mysterious "Queen of the Slayers," an awesome evil determined to claim the intoxicating Slayer essence for herself.
Xander is sent to Africa to learn more about the origins of the slayer essence. Instead he returns to report that, alarmingly, there's not enough good in the world to counteract the overabundance of evil and that the deciding apocalypse is drawing much too near. Alliances are formed and loyalties betrayed as it comes down to Slayer versus Slayer, leading to an ultimate battle of champions- from Buffy's past and present. And then an unimaginable gift arrives...
Sweet Sixteen
By Scott Ciencin
Buffy's younger sister, Dawn, knows how it feels to be different. So when she overhears her classmates teasing a new girl, Arianna, she steops in, and the two become friends. But when Buffy comes home one afternoon to find her sister and Arianna hanging out, she's surprised--she
encountered Arianna one night on patrol. A demon had been attacking her, but Arianna fought back on her own. What's that about?The more the gang gets to know Arianna, the more puzzled they are. She has superstrength and accelerated healing power, just like a slayer. But what she also has is a dark secret and an unusual past--and a dangerous legacy that is primed to reveal itself, just as soon as she turns sweet sixteen...
Unnatural Selection
By Mel Odom
Jessie (8.5) Willow is babysitting and it goes horibly wrong. Now she is being haunted by faeries (that would be evil ones by the way). All in the mist of major vampire excessiveness in the Park. Big bad because the Park will host the Blow-Out (yummy teenagers) right before the Park is torn down for a new amusment park (something Cordy and Willow are disagreeing on). This book has 3 plot lines. Willow's, Buffy and Giles', and Xander and his new friend Hutch.
Willow is being targeted by evil faeries and I found her arc the most engaging. This is the plot that keeps you reading because you want to know what will happen to lovely Willow. Oz of course is still holding the record for Best Boyfriend ever.
Buffy and Giles is where the "action" is. Buffy spents most of her time slaying vamps in the part. The fight descriptions were actually pretty good and you could imagine it pretty well. Giles is either at Buffy's heels or researching a fancy new artifact he's found...hum. And of course Angel is there to help out in the big battle. Him and Buffy love each other so much and it is so cute (in this book, as always sort of, you just want to take him for yourself), unfortunately there's a curse, yada yada yada.
Xander and his new comic book loving friend Hutch are sort of the outsiders of this story. They do their own thing. From the start you know Hutch has a bigger role (why would they try to throw a new guy into the gang) but the story keeps you guessing the whole time (I was always wrong, so even better). Cordelia and Xander are still going out at this point. Cordy's main purpose is to add tension to the Save the Park/Blow-out scenario and to give Xander a ride. However don't get me wrong because without Cordelia, as always, where's the fun?
The book is pretty fast paced and I never put it down because it was slow. It has a steady pace that keeps you wanting more. Plus, it's BtVS, so why not read it!
Visitors
By Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman
The paranormal forces centered in Sunnydale attract the vilest kinds of evil: vamps, demons...and student teachers? An invasion of collegians testing their teaching prowess on Buffy and her peer coincides with the arrival of a supernatural stalker. The Slayer feels the evil
entity watching her every move, and she's not the only one. But researching the beast is going to be problematic, with the student teachers setting up shop in Giles' home turf--the school library.When the stalker starts to take his malicious game to the next level, Buffy finds herself face to face with a being unlike any she's ever encountered. But can she figure out its weakness before she is forced to participate in its dance of death?
Wicked Willow I: The Darkening
By Yvonne Navarro
In the woods outside Sunnydale, Willow Rosenberg has exacted a terrible revenge for the murder of her lover Tara Maclay: She has captured Warren, the murderous leader of the Trio, and flayed him alive.
Her best friends, Buffy Summers and Xander Harris arrived too late to stop her.But the death of Warren isn't enough for Willow. Now her friends can only watch as the juiced-up witch sets off on a trail of vengence and magick-gathering to prepare the spell that will bring Tara back to life. And whoever gets in Willow's way is going to regret it... including one Slayer who is still hoping to save her best friend...
2. Susan Skidmore (9) (This review is for the entire Wicked Willow Trilogy) Very good read it goes deeper than the 3 episodes all though Spike appears in Willow's place halfway through his trials and still gets his soul some how.
Wicked Willow II: Shattered Twilight
By Yvonne Navarro
Even Willow's own coven has turned against her now. Condemned for saving Buffy from their evil phantom and for not protectig the other coven members fully, as she had promised. Willow must come up with a way to restore
herself to them-- and to reinforce her position of power, which hangs in the balance.But the truth--that she battled the phantom because the ghost of Tara told her to--will only lower Willow's status in the eyes of her coven. It is time for big magic. Infallible magic.
And as Willow turns to the elements for protection, Buffy and the rest of the Scoobies must find a way to fight back without losing Willow forever...
Wicked Willow III: Broken Sunrise
By Yvonne Navarro
The Ghost of Tara has disappeared. At first Willow thought it was because of something she'd done--or worse that the universe was again conspiring to hurt her. But it's almost impossible to keep secrets from a witch,
especially one as powerful as Willow, and ultimately she learns that Buffy and the gang are the culprits.Willow desperately wants Tara back. Not only does she miss her immensely, the spirit's presence is necassary to perform the resurrection spell Willow's been working on. Though her first impulse is to charge off and bring her wrath down upon the heads of her old friends, her coven reminds her that in the past, when Willow has allowd anger to control her, she has failed. Willow must develop an alternate plan to regain Tara's spirit and perform the spell.
Buffy and the Scoobies hope to drain Willow's power, and release Spike and Oz from the enslavement. But Willow's anger is endless, and it seems she'll stop and nothing in her fight to bring Tara back, no matter what the cost...
