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If You Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, take 2
Booklists, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Collection Development, Reader's Advisory
|I am a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan. Huge. So when I read books, I often find myself thinking, “Fans of Buffy will like this.” Sometimes it is because of the plot: a feisty, chosen heroine who kicks supernatural butt. Sometimes it is because of the writing style and dialogue, snarky, witty and full of […]
Do Kick Butt Heroines Really Need to Kick Butt? A guest post by author Dawn Metcalf
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawn Metcalf, Harlequin Teen, Indelible, Katniss, Strong Heroines
|Strong female protagonists: we love them, we admire them, and we want more of them! Give us more Buffys and Xenas, more Katsas and Katnisses, more Trises and Tallys, and more like our beloved Keladrys of Mindelan. We want our girls to be active, fighting for their lives and the lives of their friends, to […]
Book Review: Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride
Book Reviews, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fantasy, Humor, Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone, Paranormal
|The Brief Review: I love this book hardcore and if you don’t read it minions will die and dragons will torch the Earth. It will be all your fault. Plus, you will be missing one of the most laugh out loud reading experiences you will ever have. People will sit around at dinner parties talking […]
The Sunnydale Project, a celebration of all things Buffy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon, The Sunnydale Project
|Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a whole bundle of awesome. There are few other shows that have tapped into the zeitgeist so perfectly an explained with humor, pathos and vampires – yes, vampires – the suck that can sometimes be the teenage years. Although the TV show has ended, the vision of Buffy lives on […]
Buffy and the Reversal of Halloween, a guest post by Nancy Holder
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Halloween Rain, Joss Whedon, Nancy Holder
|Fangirl Moment of Introduction: You are probably aware that I am a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. I have read almost every book and one of the worst days of my professional life was when I had to finally discard the collection because it was quite literally falling apart. The first book I ever […]
Top 10 YA Books that Buffy fans will want to read . . .
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daniel Kraus, Full Tilt, Neal Shusterman, Rachel Caine, The Sunnydale Project, Vampires
|As you know, we are in the midst of our Sunnydale Project here at TLT, where we are discussing all things Buffy blah blah blah. Today I share with you some of my favorite must reads that will definitely satisfy Buffy fans.Rotters by Daniel Kraus Buffy has spent her fair share of time hanging out […]
Buffy, off the screen and on to the page: seasons 8 and 9 (guest post by Maria Selke)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, The Sunnydale Project
|Buffy the Vampire Slayer appeared on TV for 7 seasons, but that is not the end of the story. In a unique twist, Joss Whedon continued the story of the Buffy verse in comic book seasons. So far there has been a season 8 and 9. They are released as serial comics and then compiled […]
I watched my first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer my freshman year of college. I went home for a weekend because I was distraught after breaking up with my high school boyfriend. My younger sister, in an attempt to cheer me up, said, “at least your ex-boyfriend isn’t going around killing your friends,” and […]
Who watches the Watchers? (a guest post by Ashes author Ilsa J. Bick)
Ashes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ilsa J. Bick, Shadows, The Sunnydale Project
|For the last two Saturdays, as part of The Sunnydale Project, I have shared with you some of my favorite Buffy read alikes. Today, I share with you a guest blog post by an author of another amazing Buffy read alike, Ilsa J. Bick, author of both Ashes and Shadows. One of the key characteristics of […]
Embrace the Slayer: Embrace by Jessica Shirvington (TheSunnydaleProject)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Embrace, Entice, Jessica Shirvington, Sunnydale Project
|“It’s time for you to know who you are . . . ” – Jessica Shirvington Last Saturday I told you about my absolute favorite Buffy readalike, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride. Today, I am going to share another readalike with you – the Embrace series by Jessica Shirvington (technically called The Violet […]
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