A review by desiree_mcl
Coyote Moon by John Vornholt

4.0

4 stars.

Coyote Moon is a very good Buffy novel. It's set during the summer of Season 1. Buffy never left Sunnydale to visit her father in this novel though.

I really enjoyed the shifter aspect and I wish they did something with that on the show.

The relationship between Xander & Buffy is strained, which is a nice continuation of what happened in the finale of season 1.

There were a couple things here and there that I either didn't catch or it wasn't there for me to catch. Why the shifters wanted to raise
SpoilerSpurs from the dead, it didn't seem like working in his show was all that great for them? He would get the fame and glory while they got nothing or next to nothing
. It wasn't clear whether or not Xander and Willow were under a spell, at times it did, especially with Xander who was very single minded and obsessive about Rose, while at other times it seemed like a normal attraction. So I wish that had been cleared up a little more.

Other than those things, this was a very enjoyable post season 1 book and it broke the pattern for me when it comes to Season 1 novels, last 2 were about 2 or 2.5 stars.