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redhickory's review
4.0
This is a Buffy novel as it should be!
Lots of fun, characters acting like Joss meant them to (the Spike dialogue is so good, I can hear him saying it) and some background information extended from what we have already been told during the show.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. It is about Nikki Wood (Robin’s Mum) and Spike – she is the second slayer he kills. It gives us some more info about Spike, Nikki, Robin and Dru (there is a nice scene with Dru babbling one of her prophecies and the New York vamps thinking she is nuts and this ties in to a later moment in Buffy the TV show, which is also the book’s epilogue).
I especially love the books opening, which is also set in Sunnydale – prior to it moving to New York, where most of the book is set – when Spike is walking back to his crypt, with a video – Henry V – the Branagh one not the Oliver one, because “Branagh’s battle sequences felt more real to Spike”.. highly entertaining.
Lots of fun, characters acting like Joss meant them to (the Spike dialogue is so good, I can hear him saying it) and some background information extended from what we have already been told during the show.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. It is about Nikki Wood (Robin’s Mum) and Spike – she is the second slayer he kills. It gives us some more info about Spike, Nikki, Robin and Dru (there is a nice scene with Dru babbling one of her prophecies and the New York vamps thinking she is nuts and this ties in to a later moment in Buffy the TV show, which is also the book’s epilogue).
I especially love the books opening, which is also set in Sunnydale – prior to it moving to New York, where most of the book is set – when Spike is walking back to his crypt, with a video – Henry V – the Branagh one not the Oliver one, because “Branagh’s battle sequences felt more real to Spike”.. highly entertaining.
innae's review
3.0
An enjoyable Buffy story, telling more about how Spike killed his second slayer, Nikki Woods --
lmcox's review
2.0
I love Spike. A lot. Instead of following Buffy, Blackout focused on Spike's battle to kill Nikki Wood, the Slayer in the 70s, and Nikki's life. Nikki is one of very few Slayers to have a kid - Robin Wood, who grows up to be the principal of Sunnydale High. The story of Nikki becoming a Slayer an her mission to rid lower-class Manhattan of otherworldly evils was by far the best part of the story, though I did like the outside vamps' perspectives on the insane Drusilla. I like backstory, especially well-written, unchallenging backstory.
samanthawattam's review
2.0
Don't normally read movie/tv tie in books find them dissatisfying sketchy on details. At least this book was exploring a minor character from the series so had something new to say. But ultimately knowing the outcome of the story before it happens doesn't help. Would recommend to those only really keen on Spike and the Buffy series in general who read everything that can get their hands on. Me I will stick with the series in future.
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