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Its even better than what came before: more exciting, with richer characters and a stronger final-act twist.
Echo Ridge, we learn, is a community infamous for terrible things happening specifically, women going missing.
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Another teenager, Lacey, the homecoming queen of merely five years ago, was also found dead.
These mysteries have gone unsolved.
People will go missing.
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Fingers will be pointed.
Fun, for the reader at least, will be had.
But who am I kidding?
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Theyre merely glimmers of what shes reaching for in this large, unknowable world.
To write successfulBuffy the Vampire Slayerspin-offs, you must know your stuff.
(Unless you want fans of the cult 90s TV show to come after you with wooden stakes.)
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While the series focuses mostly on the Watchers, there is still a titular Slayer.
Nina, the quieter twin, ends up as the lastSlayerever (!)
after some magical tampering by the one and only Buffy Summers.
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Ninas father died while protecting Buffy.
It takes theBuffyromance blueprint and queers it up even more!
The gray area whereBuffys characters have always existed is part of what makes them so damn memorable.
Who didnt both love and hate Buffy while she went on her post-death season 6 path of self-destruction?
Case in point: She hates Buffy.
I just dont have the proper temperament.
So every time I start a new mystery book (because Im always enthralled by their promise.
The mystery box waiting to be opened, the Rube Goldberg plot machinations ready to snap into place!
The Truly Devious series will be a trilogy, and its structured like one single, long mystery novel.
But, of course, our detective cant stay stranded in the suburbs for long.
And like any installment in a series, it answers some questions and leaves you with new ones.
