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nicolemhewitt's review against another edition
5.0
This review (and a giveaway!) can be found on my blog: Feed Your Fiction Addiction
In Every Generation made my Buffy-obsessed heart so incredibly happy! I’m not even going to try to review the book without taking the original series into account because, for me, that’s impossible. Do I think that non-Buffy fans will enjoy the book on its own merits? Yes. But you’ll have to read other reviews for that perspective because I loved everything about the show. Anyway, this is my perspective as a fan.
This book has everything I’ve come to expect from the franchise: complicated family relationships and friendships, interesting demons, teen insecurities, an intriguing mystery, and—perhaps most of all—engaging banter. Honestly, reading this book was basically like watching an episode (or a season) of my favorite show. (And I can say that definitively because I actually ended up watching some of season 1 of the show while I was reading – Kendare gets it, there’s no doubt about that.) I was surprised how big of a role old familiar characters played in the book. Sure, the main MC is Frankie, Willow’s teen daughter. But Willow, Spike and Oz are all featured front-and-center and they feel just like the people I’ve come to know and love.
The new characters fit right into the Buffyverse as well, though. Frankie has a lot to live up to, being the daughter of a legendary witch and the “niece” of the greatest slayer of all time. And she isn’t at all confident that she can fill those shoes. Things are complicated by the fact that everyone is upset about the possible-deaths of all the slayers and watchers (but trying to think positively that they might still be alive—they don’t get to the point of actual mourning, which I kind of would have expected). So, Frankie also has a weird sort of guilt over becoming the slayer as well. Her personal Scooby gang is made up of Jake, Oz’s werewolf nephew, who is dealing with absentee parents; Hailey, who is fighting to find out what happened to her sister, one of the missing slayers; and Sigmund, a half Sage Demon who can turn on the charm (literally), but prefers his bookish side to his demon side. I’ll be happy to read more about this band of friends in future books!
Yes, this is definitely the start to a new series, so things don’t get wrapped up all neatly at the end of this first book. But, I’m excited to see what else Blake has in store for us!
***Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via Rockstar Book Tours so I could provide an honest review. No compensation was given and all opinions are my own.***
In Every Generation made my Buffy-obsessed heart so incredibly happy! I’m not even going to try to review the book without taking the original series into account because, for me, that’s impossible. Do I think that non-Buffy fans will enjoy the book on its own merits? Yes. But you’ll have to read other reviews for that perspective because I loved everything about the show. Anyway, this is my perspective as a fan.
This book has everything I’ve come to expect from the franchise: complicated family relationships and friendships, interesting demons, teen insecurities, an intriguing mystery, and—perhaps most of all—engaging banter. Honestly, reading this book was basically like watching an episode (or a season) of my favorite show. (And I can say that definitively because I actually ended up watching some of season 1 of the show while I was reading – Kendare gets it, there’s no doubt about that.) I was surprised how big of a role old familiar characters played in the book. Sure, the main MC is Frankie, Willow’s teen daughter. But Willow, Spike and Oz are all featured front-and-center and they feel just like the people I’ve come to know and love.
The new characters fit right into the Buffyverse as well, though. Frankie has a lot to live up to, being the daughter of a legendary witch and the “niece” of the greatest slayer of all time. And she isn’t at all confident that she can fill those shoes. Things are complicated by the fact that everyone is upset about the possible-deaths of all the slayers and watchers (but trying to think positively that they might still be alive—they don’t get to the point of actual mourning, which I kind of would have expected). So, Frankie also has a weird sort of guilt over becoming the slayer as well. Her personal Scooby gang is made up of Jake, Oz’s werewolf nephew, who is dealing with absentee parents; Hailey, who is fighting to find out what happened to her sister, one of the missing slayers; and Sigmund, a half Sage Demon who can turn on the charm (literally), but prefers his bookish side to his demon side. I’ll be happy to read more about this band of friends in future books!
Yes, this is definitely the start to a new series, so things don’t get wrapped up all neatly at the end of this first book. But, I’m excited to see what else Blake has in store for us!
***Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via Rockstar Book Tours so I could provide an honest review. No compensation was given and all opinions are my own.***
iarnone's review against another edition
3.0
loved reading about the next generation of scoobies, wished there weren't so many unanswered questions at the end.
redhdlibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
It’s kind of Buffy but with me characters. Has the same wit and charm. Interesting characters and kick-ass women. Looking forward to the next book as this has a lot of open plot lines….
joannabowie_'s review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
The gangs back together again <3
go_maggs_go's review against another edition
3.0
At first, this felt like really well written fanfic. Which I guess it kind of is? But by the time I got about a quarter of the way in, it felt like a natural continuation of the Buffyverse. The dialogue felt like Buffy dialogue. Willow and Oz and Spike sounded like Willow and Oz and Spike.
rozanne_visagie's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Gore
jenmat1197's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
This is the story of Frankie Rosenberg. She is the daughter of Willow, who was part of the original Buffy and the Scooby gang. These days - Sunnydale is quiet and reserved. Frankie wakes up one morning freakishly strong, and is told that there has been a horrible accident at a gathering for all the slayers and she may now be the new slayer. And the only one left. As Willow and her friends come to grips with the new reality, Frankie has to be trained to defeat an evil that has come to Sunnydale on the heals of the slayer demise. She and her friends - which include a warewolf and a demon - are now in charge of the next generation to fight off evil.
This book was not good. I finished it only because I loved Buffy back in the day and was enjoying the slight nastalgia that was between these pages. But I should have quit the book. It is 400 pages of fan fiction. It is not well written. It has horrible jokes that are the same over and over. I was suprirsed to find out that the writer was an adult and not a 17 year old teenager. The diaglogue was just okay. The characters were likable enough, but it was written too juvenile for me.
I very rarely DNF books. I think all authors who put in the work deserve to have their books finished. But I will not be recommedning this one or reading the next two in the series.
lisawreading's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars for this YA next-generation Buffy story! It's an interesting, fun kickoff to a trilogy, and I'm looking forward to reading more.