Rating: Summary: "Buffy's slender form hung from the cat-beast's grasp" Review: Right on, evil Willow! What a story... I have many of the Buffy books and this one may be my favorite. As an avid fan of both the Buffy TV series and the Buffy books, I have been waiting for a female foe to definitively defeat Buffy in a fight and witchy Willow has done it! She is more powerful than Faith or Glory! Actually, their battle is not much of a fight. Willow beats her so bad that it makes blond Buffy look like a cupcake! The ONLY thing that stops Willow from finishing Buffy off is a ghostly intervention at the last second. This book is very special!
Rating: Summary: A Great start to a trilogy Review: This being an Alternate universe book grabbed my attention. Ms. Navarro's characterizations are great. I could actually have seen this as an episode if Joss had decided to go this way with Willow. I don't want to give to much away, there are a couple of surprise guests (I'm going to leave it at that), but the book ends with you wanting more and wondering if things will completely work out once book three comes out. I can't wait for the next book to come out in a few months. I hope it's just as good as this one
Rating: Summary: Like a bad bad fan fiction Review: This book is a spectacularly amateurish level of writing. It boggles the mind anyone would have let this go to print. I recomend searching the web for anyone elses fan fic on the topic and save 6 bucks. In fact, I would beg you to do this..
Rating: Summary: Something wicked this way comes Review: This idea, an alternate reality to the usual Buffyverse, could have gone horribly awry (read any Buffy fanfiction?). Instead, the publisher put it in the hands of an author who not only came up with an intriguing plot, but who pursued some fascinating characterizations. Yvonne Navarro has always been a great writer of action, but in this she gets to demonstrate that she's remarkably adept at crafting quieter moments as well. And in the end, she accomplished the two most important goals of all: She entertained me, and she left me hungry for more.
Rating: Summary: Worst Buffy serious ever Review: This is BAD rewrite of the Season 6 finale when Willow went bad.
She sets up a place of her own and hangs out with other witches (who arent really witches) and does nothing. She is supose to be all evil but it's not happening. Tara's ghost starts hanging out with her too, and then Willow send all kinds of stupid monsters to attack the Scoobies.
Then blah blah blah it drags on and then finally a few months later she is rescued by Xander just like in the Tv series. The whole part in between is a huge waste of money and time.
Don't buy this book, at least not new. Wait for the newer ones to come out, they might be better.
Rating: Summary: Black Sceary Willow ALL the Way Review: This is pne of the best books on Willow. When Dark Willow first had screen time back in season 6 I was a little affarid but then I thought they needed to do this to show a main charter hitting rock bottom. But when it was for only a few episodes a was sad but now they are makeing up for it in 3 books can't wiate for all three to be out this will nodought be the hotest book's over the summer
Rating: Summary: When She Was Bad Review: This is such a great book. I acutely don't read a lot of Buffy books because the show covered so many things. However, this book is really worth reading. It's an alternate universe of when Willow went all evil and dark after Warren killed Tara. The writing is very well crafted and the suspense is great. I thought that Yvonne Navarro did a great job taping in to the characters. Yvonne really isn't afraid of asking the dark 'what if' questions. Really worth looking in to.
Rating: Summary: Worse. Book. Ever. Review: Well, maybe not that bad, but it is fairly awful. ME did enough damage by killing one lesbian and making the other go insane with Season Six of Buffy. Navarro here just makes matters worse allowing her to work out her latent homophobia here. She has commented before on how much she hates Tara. A completely rotten book with nothing more than a "wouldn't it be kewl if..." plot device. I can't understand how she wrote one book on this premise, let alone three. But the one redeeming quality of the this book is that it is tacit admission that Dark Magic Willow was handled very badly. Also anything that nullifies the even worse Season Seven is not so bad. Don't waste your time or money. There are so many great books out there. This is not one of them.
Rating: Summary: And When She's Bad... Review: What if Willow didn't return to being a good witch? What if, after stealing all of Giles' power Willow didn't respond to the pain of the world, and didn't decide to destroy the earth? What if, instead, she became so fixated on bringing Tara back the nothing else mattered? What if she really, really liked being a dark witch? One thing is certain, the Scooby Gang would be in a world of hurt.These are Yvonne Navarro's assumptions in her new alternate history trilogy about the Buffyverse. Despite Buffy's best efforts and being haunted by Tara, Willow is intent on draining the world of enough power to defy the rules and return Tara to life. Never mind that Tara doesn't want to come back, never mind the folks who used to be her friends. Wiillow is going to have her way. The first part of the darkening rehashes episodes 20 thru 22 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer right up to the confrontation in the Magic Box. Then, where the original Willow heads for the temple on the bluff, this Willow sets up a luxury pad in a warehouse and assembles a coven to help her work the dark arts. Throw in a few surprising pets and an extremely bad attitude and trouble, thy name is Willow. For those of us bloodthirsty types Willow never really got a fair shake when Tara died. Her friends barely noticed Tara's death, and then are so concerned about Willow's eternal soul that they never quite got the idea that Willow was in an excruciating amount of personal pain. If Zander had not finally realized that he had to get through to Willow the person the world would have cooked. This time that isn't an option. This is the first volume of a trilogy, and Navarro leaves us with no hint about whether there is a path to redemption for Willow. Now her only connection to her humanity is the ghost of Tara and that is tenuous at best. Much hangs in the balance, and Navarro has certainly got my attention for the duration.
Rating: Summary: This is a good book Review: While I liked it enough to give it five stars you have to seperate the show from the book a little while reading it if you can do that you will like this book
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