Return to Chaos

Return to Chaos

-Craig Shaw Gardner
-293 Pages
-December 1998

  Summary: When four Druids arrive in town everyone knows that something is going on. Three of the Druids are brothers and the other is their uncle. They're in town to try a spell on a certain night to close the gateway in the Hellmouth so that demons would not be allowed to pass through. They'd done it a year before with their father but the spell was not completed and the brothers lost their father in the midst of the spell. Giles is a little put off by the uncle and feels that he's not being told everything that he should know. Also gathering is a large community of vampires run by Eric and his apprentice Naomi, who has been playing nasty tricks with Cordelia's mind by hypnotizing her. Things start to go wrong; magic appears everywhere and the brothers turn against their uncle. On the night of the spell Buffy must manage to fix the spell or deter the uncle from his task as well as figure out what is going on with Eric and his gang.
   
  Rating: 1/5
   
  Review: Ugh... not really a story I'd want to read again. I don't really know what it was about it. The whole story appeared to be kind of flat and without emotional impact on anyone, characters and reader included. I finished it and left me with no reaction, just a sort of "Blah, yeah, now it's over, on to the next" kind of feeling and that really isn't a good thing. Some of the stuff about the uncle was way too repetitive and didn't make me any more interested him or what he'd been through. Too boring and uneventful.
   
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