Book Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Portal Through Time by Alice Henderson

Well, the book is really good for Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. It’s nice going back to second season Sunnydale when the characters are still so young and fresh, and the story is somewhat lighter than what it becomes later on in the show. The descriptions in this book were so well-written and thorough that I could practically see everything I was reading about right in front of me! The separate stories within the book were quite amusing, and the starting idea of killing Buffy in her earlier years so as to let the Master reign was amazing. When the Scoobies started travelling back in time I honestly thought that four time-jumps were just too many, especially because of the doomed and damp atmosphere in the first one which made the story a bit had to read. But then the pace accelerated and even though the stories were complete and long enough they felt lighter than that first one. In returning to Sunnydale after the last time-travel, I expected something quite different. Still, it turned out very nicely and quite surprising. The only thing I could not understand was: if in the French Revolution Paris there arrived two groups of Scoobies, how come only one returned to Sunnydale?