The reason I picked this up is that I wanted to see characters who never met on TV get to interact in some way. Tara and Fred were instant weirdo BFFs, which was fun, and I liked the various characters' introspective observations of the way certain other characters had changed since high school. You know what else hasn't changed since high school? The boringness that is Buffy/Angel. Even though this was set during the period of 'Angel' where he was all in love with Cordelia and during the period of 'Buffy' where she was hating life and having destructive, creepy sex with Spike, we were right back to the supid "star crossed lovers gaze longingly but cannot be together" high school BS. So stupid. I mean, Buffy even flat out admits several times throughout the book that she doesn't know anything about Angel's life now (and doesn't know all that much about his past either), they have nothing to talk about with each other, and Cordelia and Wesley are actually his closest friends, but still with the angsty gazing? Why? Major pet peeve of mine. But that aside, it was still plenty interesting.

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