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Title: No spark and it burns me that I bought it!
Review: As with many others, I was instantly captured by the thought of "an original novel" for one of my favorite Buffy characters, Spike. This book, however, is pretty much just a recap of everything known from the show. The only really original part is how Spike ended up on the Nazi submarine. Otherwise, the author rambled on about Spike's origins and repeated unoriginal themes from the show. And, personally, I did not appreciate her using Spike's supposed involvement in the other Buffy story lines (such as those about Machida and Ampata, the mummy) to fill her pages. He was not in those stories, don't bring him in now just to take up space. I have great reverence for books and can count the number of times in my life that I have destroyed a book on purpose -- this will be number 3.
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