The Xander Years, Volume 1

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Summary: Download the Xander years, a.k.a. the "Xander curse"
Review: The love life of Alexander Harris is not exactly a bed of roses as the three Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes novelized by Keith R. A. DeCandido in "The Xander Years, Volume 1" prove in excrutiating detail. This initial look at Xander's personal Gordian knot provides the following trips down memory lane from the show's first two seasons: "Teacher's Pet," in which Xander almost falls prey to a sexy substitute teacher who turns out to be a She-Mantis. In "Inca Mummy Girl" Xander finds love at last with a foreign exchange student who is really a, well, Inca Mummy Girl (and a Princess!) brought back to life who needs to drain the life force out of people from time to time to surive. The best of the lot is "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered," where Xander gets dumped by Cordelia and has Amy Madison cast a love spell. The course of true love or spells by teenage witches never goes smoothly and so Coredlia is the ONLY woman in Sunnydale not affected by the spell. Joyce and an ax-wielding Willow fight over Xander is certainly a memorable moment. (Note: Buffy spends most of the story as a rat because that was the week Sarah Michelle Gellar was hosting Saturday Night Live). You have to say one thing for Xander. If it wasn't for bad love the boy would have no love at all. He might be the comic relief for the Scooby Gang, but as everybody who was repeatedly shot down by the girls in high school can readily attest, there is a genuine pathos to his character.

Rating:
Summary: Download the Xander years, a.k.a. the "Xander curse"
Review: The love life of Alexander Harris is not exactly a bed of roses as the three Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes novelized by Keith R. A. DeCandido in "The Xander Years, Volume 1" prove in excrutiating detail. This initial look at Xander's personal Gordian knot provides the following trips down memory lane from the show's first two seasons: "Teacher's Pet," in which Xander almost falls prey to a sexy substitute teacher who turns out to be a She-Mantis. In "Inca Mummy Girl" Xander finds love at last with a foreign exchange student who is really a, well, Inca Mummy Girl (and a Princess!) brought back to life who needs to drain the life force out of people from time to time to surive. The best of the lot is "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered," where Xander gets dumped by Cordelia and has Amy Madison cast a love spell. The course of true love or spells by teenage witches never goes smoothly and so Coredlia is the ONLY woman in Sunnydale not affected by the spell. Joyce and an ax-wielding Willow fight over Xander is certainly a memorable moment. (Note: Buffy spends most of the story as a rat because that was the week Sarah Michelle Gellar was hosting Saturday Night Live). You have to say one thing for Xander. If it wasn't for bad love the boy would have no love at all. He might be the comic relief for the Scooby Gang, but as everybody who was repeatedly shot down by the girls in high school can readily attest, there is a genuine pathos to his character.