BUFFY
Child of the Hunt
Unfortunately, the people from the fair are not the only visitors in Sunnydale. Roaming the countryside are nasty little creatures with a taste for flesh: the dark faerie. They are minions of the Wild Hunt, servants of the evil Erl King.
Buffy's challenge is to annihilate the king and his murderous horde. But the path to his destruction leads straight to Roland, who is not quite human...and destined to become the Slayer's mortal adversary.
Time Period: Events take place at the start of Season Three (before The Wish).
Author: Chrisopher Golden and Nancy Holder (these two authors also wrote The Gateway Trilogy and Immortal).
Starring: Buffy, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, Oz, Angel, and Giles.
Supporting Cast: Roland, Brian/"Shock", Joyce, The Chases, The Rosenbergs, The Harrises, the Erl King, Connie/"Treasure", and Jamie Anderson.
Review: This book and Return to Chaos were probably one of the first Buffy novels written for young adults--and it's slightly evident. Although this is a good novel that takes place at the start of Season Three (including the Cordelia/Xander relationship--which gets left out of a lot of the S3 novels), and it deals with several events that took place at the start of the season, including Joyce dealing with Buffy being the Slayer and Buffy running away. The overall story is quite interesting--figuring out who is who and what is what, it's a good read. The ending's all right, not the greatest, but it was one of the first books. It gets 3 stars.
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