Time Period: Events take place during the second-half of Season Five (before Crush).
Author: Christopher Golden (also wrote Spike and Dru, Origin, Holloween Rain, Food Chain, Child of the Hunt, The Gatekeeper Trilogy, Immortal, Sins of the Father, The Lost Slayer, The Blood of Cartha, Angel: Surrogates, Angel: Autumnal, Angel: Hollower, Angel: Strange Bedfellows, Angel: Hunting Ground, Angel: Earthly Possessions Past Lives, Oz: Into the Wind.)
Starring: Buffy, Xander, Anya, Willow, Tara, Spike, Dawn, and Giles.
Supporting Cast: Faith, Willy, Helen Fontaine, Rosanna Jergens, Baker McGee, Daniel Haversham, with Drusilla, and Quienton Travers.
Review: This is definately one of the longer Buffy books. Set during Season Five (right after Joyce got out of the hospital--even though Joyce Summers doesn't actually appear in this book). At first, the book starts off a little slow, but it picks up after acouple of chapters, but the Wisdom right hits its peak when Faith starts is released in the book (during the second-half of the story). Throughout the beginning, you're just trying to figure out what's going on, what's what, who's who. It's interest, but the fact that it's 401 pages really slows it down. And, when Faith is actually there, she only really interacts with the Council members (Helen, Daniel, and Quienton) and Buffy, which is unfortunate because it would have been interesting to see how Faith and the other Scoobies are together (there's a brief scene with Faith/Anya/Xander for about a page, but that's it). This is a good book to explore Faith's character attempting to redeem herself and seeing some levels of Faith we haven't seen before. But the overall storyline is pretty long--but the cool thing is that every single main character (except Dawn, who's not in a lot of the second half of the story, and Anya's significance revolves around Xander) shine at some point or another. So that's good. It give it a 3.