Second Buffy tie-in novel, second one-star rating. Why are they so dire? The series was awesome and scary and witty, the books are... not. They're written at such a low level. Infodump in the middle, idiotic ending. The plot is deeply unconvincing (that's putting it kindly) and full of mistakes - why is Buffy saying that she knows what death is like when the Master is still alive? And the less said about how this book presents the Master the better. I was cringing, and not in a good way.

The tone in this one is the biggest culprit - it's trying too hard to be clever and funny every second sentence, and not really succeeding at either. Buffy herself is straining for laughs every line, like she's been transformed into a one-woman gag machine. TV Buffy was witty, but it wasn't her sole characteristic and it wasn't hammered to death. That low level I was talking about? This book reads to me as if its target audience were 10 year old boys, and reluctant readers at that - this is an audience that needs more books, don't get me wrong, but it's not what I expect from Buffy.