Rating: 
Summary: Violence doesn't usually bug me this much.
Review: I love vampire movies, I love every Buffy thing ever, but this book was a little much for me. You could consider this a job well done on the part of the authors, because that's what they must have been going for. Personally, however, I don't like horror that gets that personal. I don't want to read more than a few words about a couple being killed one at a time so the second one watches the first die, for example. That's too much. I know the vampires are evil--"That's why one slays them."
Everyone reacts differently, of course, so this same thing probably doesn't even faze most folks. For me this book was pretty good, but also crossed the line of what makes my stomach knot up (much like the opening scene from "Scream" did) and I can only rate it 3 stars because of that.
Rating: 
Summary: A Job Well Done!
Review: These two authors are the most overrated in the series, but Immortal is definitely a winner. It is also one of the more genuinely adult Buffy entries.One of the problems the book series has is coming up with sufficiently powerful foes for Buffy to face. The T.V. show has an entire season to develop them. The books don't. Immortal's Veronique is one of Buffy's more memorable opponents. Veronique is a lamia, an immortal vampire spirit hitherto imprisoned on a Greek island. Unlike other vampires, she has no true body of her own. For that reason, she can't be "killed." She can migrate from one corpse to another, continuing to face the best champion the world has to offer: Buffy. And each time around, Veronique has learned a few more of Buffy's moves. Eventually, by simple law of averages, Buffy can only lose. Compounding the Slayer's appreciable problem, Veronique plans to resurrect the demon source of all vampires, which even Buffy would be powerless to defeat in its proper form. The characters are more substantially and interestingly developed than usual, the plot is brisk and involving, the action harrowing. This is a good horror novel, in addition to being a good Buffy novel.
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