Rating: 
Summary: An OK read, but lacking a little
Review: "Coyote Moon" is the first Buffy, the Vampire Slayer book I have read. I have been following the series since it started. "Coyote Moon" seems boring, if not corny, at first. But the book gets better by chapter 3, when Buffy notices that the carnys at the carnival are very strange. From then on, the book becomes a good read, save for the fact that the characters are lacking. Buffy, Willow, and Xander are off a little, saying and doing things that they would probably not say or do in the series. The book has a good plot, I would recommend reading it, but don't read it if you are expecting it to be the same as the TV series. The plot is very good...the characters are lacking, and have no real depth.
Rating:
Summary: The most realistic portrait of the Scoobies as teenagers
Review: As if there is not enough fun stuff happening in Sunnydale, a carnival comes to town. Buffy, Xander and Willow head out for some serious rest and relaxation only to discover things are not as they seem and now the corpses popping up around town bear the marks of coyotes not vampires. But while Buffy is suspicious, Xander is smitten with Rose, a seductive siren from the carnival midway, while Willow has caught the eye of Lonnie, the barker. Somehow, you just know all the pieces are going to come together and it will then be Slayer time. My complaint, such as it is, is that John Vornholt has made Buffy, Xander and Willow more like real teenagers than they appear on the show, which ends up being something of a tradeoff with the show's trademark humor. I know how ironic it is to judge his realism by the standard of a television fantasy. This is still an above average Buffy novel. It is also rather interesting to read this book and know that Willow is going to end up dating Oz down the road, since our favorite gal pal spends some serious timing kissing a carney guy who turns out to be a werecoyote.
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