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    <body><![CDATA[What you should know from the get go is that this book has nothing to do with Buffy or anyone around her, it is about Spike and Drusilla only.<br/>Spike negotiates with a demon, he will get a powerful necklace in exchange for killing off all the potential slayers.  Once the current slayer finds out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34539051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, but there is something wrong with it.  The author changed Spike's history.  When he first shows up in Sunnydales, he mentions that he has killed 2 slayers.  They were the chinese chik during the Boxing Rebelion and Nikki in Chicago.  Well in this book he kills one in Europe.  That...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14065893">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a great book for spike and/or dru lovers. it's quite good but it'd be better if the story was told more form dru and spikes POV (point of view). dont get this book if you just love buffy, or if you love angel, because they're not in this book! angel is mentioned once or twice but he's never actually...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50708248">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved everything about this book. I loved spike and Dru, i loved the slayer and her watcher, (not buffy and Giles), i loved the villain of the piece, and i loved learning about the slayers to be waiting for their time.<br/>Skrymir Rocked as a villain. Both Entertaining, action packed, chilling, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15820797">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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