The Book Of Fours – Nancy Holder

When tidal waves and burning forests bring mayhem to the streets of Sunnydale at the same time vicious attackers appear with mystical axes, the Scooby gang knows that something is up. While Buffy and Faith try to keep the town, and each other, safe, a woman named Cecile Lafitte has put plans in motion to bring forth the Gatherer, who wants to kill both slayers and bring destruction to all of Earth.  To defeat the Gatherer, the two slayers must look for help from their immediate predecessors, along with Willow and Cordelia, to stop Cecile before he can come forth.

It’s been nearly 3 years since I travelled back to Sunnydale to visit our old friends from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.  The Book of Fours, from prolific Buffy writer Nancy Holder, brings us a tale of multiple slayers, many of whom have been sacrificed to the same evil.  What I thought would be an easy read turned into a bit of a disappointment.  There were a few unnecessary plot threads that looked like they were going somewhere, only to be abandoned for the remainder of the book and resolved in passing in the epilogue.  Was this the fault of Holder or is what they say about not being able to go home again true?  Who knows?