Books

‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Love and Death’ (2004) (Book review)

Jeff Mariotte probably didn’t know “Love and Death” (October 2004) would be the last “Angel” novel when he wrote it, but it plays pretty well

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Book of the Dead’ (2004) (Book review)

As she did with “Buffy: These Our Actors” (2002), co-written with Dori Koogler, Ashely McConnell writes an “Angel” novel – “Book of the Dead” (July

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Monolith’ (2004) (Book review)

John Passarella completes a solid three-for-three among Buffyverse novels with “Angel: Monolith” (June 2004). As with “Buffy: Ghoul Trouble” (2000) and “Angel: Avatar” (2001), this

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Dark Mirror’ (2004) (Book review)

There was never an “Angel” young-adult book line, but Craig Shaw Gardner’s “Dark Mirror” (April 2004) gives a sense of what those books would be

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Nemesis’ (2004) (Book review)

Scott and Denise Ciencin deliver another messy yet surprisingly enjoyable page-turner with “Angel: Nemesis” (February 2004), their final work in the Buffyverse. Similar to the

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‘Buffy’/ ‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Heat’ (2004) (Book review)

I’ll say this for Nancy Holder’s “Heat” (June 2004), the seventh and last of the “Buffy”/ “Angel” crossover novels: It’s certainly ambitious. This 456-page beast

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‘Buffy’ flashback: All 8 short stories from ‘Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4’ (2004), ranked (Book review)

The fourth and final “Tales of the Slayer” collection (November 2004) is also the only one centered around a theme: specifically, the Cruciamentum – as

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‘Pirate Latitudes’ (2009) an adventurous slice of history

It’s a sign of a prolific author when even death doesn’t stop them from putting out novels, and such was the case with Michael Crichton

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Wicked Willow III: Broken Sunrise’ (2004) (Book review)

I thought the alternate-reality “Wicked Willow” trilogy was starting to get good with its second book, “Shattered Twilight,” but it comes crashing down again with “Broken

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The strangely enduring legacy of Luke Perry’s Pike in the ‘Buffy’ saga

With the tragic death of Luke Perry (1966-2019) from a stroke this past week, there’s been an influx of “Buffy” fans announcing that they loved

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