Language: PG-13 (32 swears, 0‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG-13 (vampires, fightings, killings)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
As the daughter of Willow Rosenberg, Frankie has always known about the Slayers and all things Buffy related. But her mom is more like any middle aged suburban mom – not a bad-ass witch or anything. Then when all of the slayers created when Buffy unleashed the slayer power are killed at their annual retreat (Slayerfest, they call it), the power of the slayer seems to have reverted to Frankie. Now she has Spike as her Watcher (oh the irony) and Hailey, who is the little sister of a (now former) slayer is with her at Sunnydale High – which for some reason was rebuilt on the site of the (hopefully) closed Hellmouth. Enter Jake, who is the protégé of Oz and the next generation of Scoobies is assembled. Now that the slayers are gone and Frankie has zero training, some big, bad, ancient vampire has big plans for opening the Hellmouth and pouring evil all over Sunnydale again.
I have to say – I prefer Kiersten White’s Buffy reboot. Frankie is clueless and inept – though she is supposed to have slayer power, it seems to be buried really deep. I mostly enjoyed watching Spike flail as the high school librarian and Hailey would have made a way better slayer. Maybe in book 2 Frankie will have more of a spine.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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