This book offers a very quick and humorous read that any Buffy fan is sure to enjoy. It's not labored down with detail but instead leaves much up to the reader's imagination.
HERE ARES SOME QUANTITATIVE EXAMPLES:
(P. 51): As Merrick, who trains vampire slayers, told Buffy to sit besides the 3-day-old grave belonging to deceased Robert Berman, whose about to emerge for his first time as a vampire, Buffy, whose never met a vampire before, suddenly asks:
"Do you have any gum?" (Obviously she doesn't take this vampire-hunter assignment very seriously. It's also possible that she assumes the vampire will look desirable as Vampire Eric Northman, of True Blood fame, and perhaps then she'll need fresh breath to get lucky).
HOW SOME VAMPIRES DIE: (p. 55)
As Buffy rams a stake clean through a she-demon's heart (referred to as "woman" here) ... "The woman gave one final scream, her repulsive face still smoking even as she died." (That's the extent of it - no bursting into a puff of smoke or slowly dying in agony as the vampire and slayer talk long about the things they wished they'd achieved before one of them kicked the proverbial bucket.)
SOME VAMPIRES ARE JUST TERRIBLY RUDE - Like Vampire Lothos :(p. 62)
"Listen," Cassandra babbled desperately, "You don't want me. You want bodies, I'll help you. I won't say a word. I swear to God --."
Lothos grabbed her so swiftly and suddenly that she didn't even have time to gasp before he broke her neck.
"I wish you wouldn't mention Him," Lothos sighed, profoundly annoyed.
THOSE WHO TRAIN VAMPIRE HUNTERS CAN SEEM RATHER IMPATIENT:
Page 89: Merrick, who thinks Buffy is not taking her training seriously, scolds her, shamelessly.
"What did you think, that being about to jump about and hit people makes you a Slayer?"
CONCLUSION:
Anybody whose even half-way cool will love reading this book. I found my copy at a local charity store (bought the paperback used for $2.99).
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