Resurrecting Ravana

Resurrecting Ravana

-Ray Garton
-January 2000
-305 Pages

  Summary: It's midterm exam time at Sunnydale High School and tensions are rising high in the usual group. Particularly between Buffy and Willow who seem to have some sort of unspoken dislike of the other. Meanwhile, horrible murders have been occurring throughout Sunnydale; two close friends end up dead, one kills the other and then the murderer ends up as a pile of bones. The murders also coincide with the arrival of a large group of demons called the Rakshasa who seem to have a sort of wicked control over their victims. As Buffy and Willow become more and more violent towards each other, Giles does some research which indicates that the Rakshasa are in town to help with the resurrection on an ancient Hindu god called Ravana. And when Giles spots Ethan Rayne in town, he knows that something chaotic is at hand.
   
  Rating: 3/5
   
  Review: It's an okay book. Not a spectacular one, but not a crappy one either. It's one of those in between ones that's decent enough to read and you don't really get tired of it. The characters were well written enough, as were their thought processes. Buffy and Willow's dislike for each other was a bit odd at first, I didn't really like to see the two of them fighting like that. But since it was all the results of the Rakshasa, it wasn't too disturbing. To be honest, nothing really stood out about this book, and yet I can't bring myself to give it a bad rating. So it's just... a decent book.
   
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