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A review by quasinaut
Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
Informative and thorough, if sometimes repetitive. I think this could have benefited from a different structure -- earlier chapters recapped each season one by one, while later chapters delved into specific topics like sexuality and race and language. I liked how interviews and quotations were threaded throughout, but I think it would have worked well to also interweave the plot summaries and commentary together rather than go through them separately.
It was interesting to see which characters and elements were given more attention while others were barely mentioned (like, I'm not saying we need to spend a lot of time on, say, Wesley, but I think he was mentioned maybe once, in passing?). It felt like we were at the whims of the author and his interests -- which is fine! It's his book! -- but I was looking for something a little different.
It was interesting to see which characters and elements were given more attention while others were barely mentioned (like, I'm not saying we need to spend a lot of time on, say, Wesley, but I think he was mentioned maybe once, in passing?). It felt like we were at the whims of the author and his interests -- which is fine! It's his book! -- but I was looking for something a little different.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse