Customer Reviews
Of shapeshifters and skin walkers - By: , 20 Sep 2005 
The seedy carnival looks like just the thing to give buffy & her friends, a break from staking bloodsuckrs. but then buffy senses something evil behind this carnival & the way john vornholt writes this is tremendous!
xander & willow aren't sure. they don't buy buffy's notion that the carneys are somehow connected to the corpses turning up around sunnydale. it doesn't help that her two best buds are both interestedin somebody at the carnival.
can she find out what's going onin time to save her friends or has the slayer become the prey is the question this fantabulous writer has written on everyones lips!
GREAT! 10 out of 10!
The most realistic portrayal of the Scoobies as teenagers - By: , 16 Jan 2002 
As if there is not enough fun stuff happeningin Sunnydale, a carnival comes to town. Buffy, Xander & Willow head out for some serious rest & relaxation only to discover things are not as they seem & now the corpses popping up around town bear the marks of coyotes not vampires. But while Buffy is suspicious, Xander is smitten with Rose, a seductive siren from the carnival midway, while Willow has caught the eye of Lonnie, the barker. Somehow, you just know all the pieces are going to come together & it will then be Slayer time.
My complaint, such as it is, is that John Vornholt has made Buffy, Xander & Willow more like real teenagers than they appear on the show, which ends up being something of a tradeoff with the show's trademark humor. I know how ironic it is to judge his realism by the standard of a television fantasy. This is still an above average Buffy novel. It is also rather interesting to read this book & know that Willow is going to end up dating Oz down the road, since our favorite gal pal spends some serious timing kissing a carney guy who turns out to be a werecoyote. Of course a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, but the true Buffy fan still remembers when.
Excellent! - By: sarahwombat@aol.com, 11 Apr 2001 This book would have made a great Season One episode & will be enjoyed by Buffy fans of all ages.
confusing but a good twist at the end - By: , 09 Oct 2000 this is a great book with an even better twist at the end. it is confusing if you haven't read any older buffy books!
Good - By: , 20 Aug 2000 
I am a really big fan of Buffy & i have read all the Buffy books but this one disappointed me a bit. Although the middle & the end was good, the beginning was boring & nearly made me stop reading it but i didn't & found the book quite good at the end.
