These Our Actors

 These Our Actors

-Ashley McConnell & Dori Koogler
-September 2002
-308 Pages
  Summary: Even though Buffy decided to drop drama class to concentrate on her slaying and taking care of Dawn, Willow still decided keep the class on her course list. She becomes engrossed in it, especially when the teacher, Professor Addams, begins discussing about rituals and chants involved in old dramatic works. Unfortunately, the professor, realizing that Willow has some power of her own, decides to use her for his own ways. He needs to locate a particularly powerful book used to summon the Fates, which he believes is located somewhere in Sunnydale. Meanwhile, this novel also takes us back to the time where Spike was shunned by Cecily Addams and turned into a vampire by Drusilla. Spike, as a vampire, decides to take his revenge on the weak Cecily...
 
   
  Rating: 5/5
   
  Review: This was absolutely amazing. Right up there with one of the best Buffy novels out there. I have no idea who these writers are, but they did an amazing job. If you're looking for a novel that centers on Buffy, then this isn't the one for you. It focuses specifically on Willow and Spike and their own adventures. Buffy and the rest of the gang are rarely mentioned. However, that doesn't mean that it lacks for adventure. I absolutely adored how they took us back to Spike's past, when he was made into a vampire. And the descriptions of the gory events and how Spike and Angelus planned to destroy Cecily was absolutely fabulous. It was absolutely page turning and I could barely put this novel down. There really needs to be more novels written like this particular one. Both Spike and Willow were wonderfully characterized and I couldn't think of a better pairing for this novel. (Not in the romantic sense, but just two characters who can interact really well with each other.) The only issue I had with this novel was that Cecily was killed (which, btw, was in an AWESOME twist ending, I was really not expecting her own father to kill her!). Now, there's been speculation that Cecily is also Halfrek on the show (though she's now been killed.) And if that were true, it tends to disclude this novel as any real fact in the Buffyverse. However, pick this novel up. It'll be certainly worth your while.
   
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