It is important to note that this book is not a continuation of the series. If you are interested in reading season eight or nine, that story is told in the comics. These stories are all at least a couple of years old. Coyote Moon and Night of the Living Rerun were written during season one. Portal Through Time was written after the series ended, but takes place during season two.

I have already read a lot of the Buffy novels. I love that they are compiling them into volumes like this, and I look More...

Although I read the first two books included in this volume earlier this semester [before the blog], I wanted to talk about the third one as I just read it. Portal Through Time by Alice Henderson, I thought, was the best of the three offerings Volume One presented. It had the most complex plot (devotes to the Master were attempting to go back in time to kill slayers in order to change the slayer timeline and prevent Buffy from ever coming into power so as to allow the Master to rise), a deeper m More...

These three books have everything: vampires, humour, romance, shapeshifters, zombies, time travel, alternate dimensions and Xander getting possessed by a past-life spirit – a young witch called Sarah. What’s not to love?
The characters in the books are the ones from the series are captured by three different authors, and yet manage to stay the same all the way through. You really can get a sense of them, and know they’re the characters from the show. My favourite is Willow, I think, the strange, More...

I didn't get to become a fan of this hit TV series when it was in its prime. That said, I wanted to have a chance to appreciate it with this compendium volume. Unfortunately, I was vastly disappointed. Not only is there no presence of the back story I was hoping for but this volume proved to be in no order whatsoever. It reeks of really bad writing on the part of the authors involved that I can't believe "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" would even deign to be associated with these writers.

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Meh.

I love Buffy, so it was easier to overlook some negatives in this book, but it really could have been much better. The first story, Coyote Moon, had some pretty awful writing. It was very simplistic and felt like a mediocre fanfiction, though the actual story was decent. Not great, but entertaining enough.

The other two stories were better. The stories were more developed and in depth and the writing was an improvement as well. Still not great, but I think that maybe trying to capture the dia More...

Publisher jumping on vamp craze with this re-issue.
Coyote Moon - definitely a season one filler episode. Not a lot of weight to this one.
Night of the Living Rerun - Much better use of the scooby-gang. Season 2 episode - and zombies!
Portal Through Time - takes place during season two; but it involves time travel (!) so "during" is a little fuzzy here. Great story! good time. This one made the other two worth it.

So... Buffy did it before twilight and is infinitely cooler. take that. More...

This book is chock full of Buffy wow factor. It was actually quite an odd reading experience because I wasn’t forming the character in my own imagination but rather watching an episode of Buffy in my mind. Sarah Michelle Geller kicking butt left, right and centre. It had me laughing out loud with the teen talk and I have to say this was just such a fun and retro cool book to read. It is a bind-up of three Buffy stories, so I’ll tell you a little about each.


In Coyote Moon the carnival comes to Su More...

I like the Buffy series, the clever script writing but these stories, left a lot to be desired. The one thing JK Rowling has shown the world is that young readers can handle big words in a book and big themes. These stories insulted the intelligence of a ten year old with their simplistic writing style. I am sure the repackaged covers are to cash in on the paranormal romance genre but .... really. If we had the Buffy series as a tome that gave greater depth to her character and built the stories More...

Buffy Summers is the 'chosen one' of her generation, meaning that she has to kill vampires, demons and all sorts of other monsters that she comes up against living over the hellmouth. Buffy, Willow and Xander are enjoying the end of their summer at the carnival when Buffy discovers the carnival owners are more than what they first seem, and they have deadly plans for Sunnydale.

I've just recently finished re-watching the seven seasons of the show, and so really enjoyed reading some of the fiction More...

Night of the Living Re-run receives a generous one star. Full review here.

Coyote Moon is a 3.5 star read. Click for full review.

Unfortunately I never got around to a review for the best story in the volume, Portal Through Time, which is a solid four-star read.

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2 stars because of the 3rd story; 1.5 without it...

It's well-known (to Buffy fans at least) that Joss Whedon wrote 'Hush', an entirely silent episode of Buffy, in response to a review that said the only good thing about the show was it's witty dialogue. Sadly, the dialogue in this book is in no way comparable to that of the series. The writing is shocking, and in places downright embarrassing - like a middle-age man trying to pretend he's a teenage girl. All 3 are littered with clumsy references More...

Coyote Moon by John Vornholt: Absolutely ridiculous. The story was ludicrous (werecoyotes?? ...and Giles confirms the past existence of werealligators??) and Vornholt had clearly only ever watched one episode of BtVS, ever... and that episode was probably 'Go Fish'. The characters most out of whack were Giles and Xander, but Buffy and Willow were not that far behind. This story read like the author had what he thought was a good idea for a YA book, and somehow got the green light on using the Bu More...

So far this rating is for only Coyote Moon and Night of the Living Rerun. I'll read Portal Through Time sometime in the future.

Coyote Moon: 4 stars. This is a very good Buffy novel. It's set during the summer of Season 1. Buffy never left Sunnydale to visit her father in this novel though.

I really enjoyed the shifter aspect and I wish they did something with that on the show.

The relationship between Xander & Buffy is strained, which is a nice continuation of what happened in the finale of s More...

Well, first let me talk about the "layout" of this book. It is a compilation of three Buffy the Vampire stories by different authors. Which would normally be fine for me, but with the number "1" on the cover, and no other indication that the stories will be out of order, it disappointed me when I started reading and found I was starting somewhere in the middle, and none of the stories following were in any sort of sequence. I got over it though and pretended each was an episode I had flipped to More...

I kind of blame my self for this one I should have known that this was going to be bad simply based on the fact that Joss Whedon was not involved in the construction of this book writing wise, his offices may have approved the book but wheden have said before that he never read a single buffy book completely furthermore wheden knows little of the final product or the quality of such a product

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Since this book is three stories, I am going to review each story individually.

First, 'Coyote Moon', though reminding me somewhat of the season 1 Buffy episode where the teenagers are turned into hyenas, certainly kept me spooked the entire time. I will say that this story was the most predictable of the three, and had the element of everything seeming to happen too conveniently. I realise this has to happen some time in every story, but the lucky breaks were frequent in this story. The carnival More...

Before I start this review you have to know that I am a Buffy fan (I don’t know many people who aren’t) so please bare with me ;)

It’s good, very good in fact, each of the stories feels like I’m sent back to when the series was first airing (or watching the DVD Box set) and feels exactly like an episode. All of the characters sound and act just like they would in the series. From Xander’s sometimes pointless but witty comments to Buffy’s kill the bad vamp attitude – it’s all there. The voice for More...

These three stories of Buffy Summers, which occur during and just after the first season, make a girl feel good. Life has never been the same since the series ended, and works such as these allow an addict her fix, as reruns can only go so far.

Each story is enjoyable and fun. Coyote Moon captures the characters' personalities the best and was the most entertaining and well written of the three. Night of the Living Rerun and Portal Through Time gave us some insigt into other slayers, but the scop More...

I love me some buffy, but I couldn't give the book (which is actually 3 books in 1 volume) 5 stars bc the 1st book was just not that good. The story wasn't that interesting & the dialogue & behavior of the main characters were not consistent with the show. The 2nd 2 books more than made up for it though. The 3rd book was soooo good, & I really got into it (but angel was also in that one so I might be biased). This was the first buffy book I ever read. I'll definitely be getting the More...

Oh god did this book drag on and on. It took me about two and half months to finish and i was completely disappointed. The actual layout of the book was very strange and there is honestly no reason as to why they should have done it like that. Don't let the #1 on the side fool you, the stories are not in order and are all written by different authors. Even with that, all the stories were equally boring, plain and the writing was so simple that it resembled mine when i was in fifth grade. Xander, More...

Loved it, was a fan of the series but this is even better. The bad thing about tv shows is that you can't take them with you anywhere unless you buy one. Books you can cart anywhere. This was my sole companion when the power totally blacked out last summer in wv. If I hadn't had the book I believe I would have died of boredom.. But while the plots are great I thought a couple were badly written which is why I rated it a three.

I bought this book on a whim, having been a fan of the show for a while now. I thought the stories got better as the book progressed. The first was okay; I thought it was written like mediocre fan-fiction and used too many cliches. The second story was better, but could still use some work. The third story was the best and kind of awesome. It was well written and the humor was pretty similar to that of Joss Whedon's, IMO.

I wanted to enjoy this book so much, but honestly the first two pieces in this collection were just disappointing. The first one, Coyote Moon, is just bad, from the characterisation to the style, I couldn't really stand it, but I powered through, hoping for better quality in the second piece. It was better, but the characterisation was still a let-down. The third was a definitely improvement, but I felt the end let it down quite a bit; it felt rushed, and that was disappointing, because up until More...

I loved the TV series, so I started the books. I loved how each author had their various ways of writing their books in the book, each sort of has it's own various details and points of view on the characters personality, except for Xander, who can never change.

Pretty much the watching the TV show in book form; at least, so I imagine. I've never actually seen the show...yeah yeah I know. I put it on my list of things to watch. My long, long list...

I ♥ Angel so bad!!!!!!!!! He is such a James Stark ♥♥♥

Fun fan fiction at its finest... The stories tried too hard to include tidbits from the show to prove the author's knowledge. The first two stories were okay, nothing special. The premise of the third story was the best, but it was long-winded trying to validate three historical time periods. All in all a "meh" sort of read.

Fun to read but they were more fun when I was a teenager. Still, it was a nice break from more heavy reading. The authors really try and they do (well, some more than others) recreate the character chemistry and language fairly well. Gotta love the Buffy lingo!

Though nothing compares with actually watching Buffy on television, the three books contained in this novel are strikingly close to the way the characters acted on the show. The best one was "Portal Through Time", and any Buffy fan would enjoy this novel for the banter between the characters and the unique baddies.