Life's too short to waste your time reading this book.If youinsist on disregarding the above, then at least don't read the last 30pages or so. That way, you can maintain the illusion that the author actually wrote an ending. The flashbacks only served to break the story's continuity, or allow the author to write off her vacation to Indonesia as research, I'm not sure which. So many of the story threads weren't resolved, and what was resolved was done so poorly, it was better left unread. ...The author would've been better off writing "The good guys win. The end." I'd seriously question the intelligence/objectiveness of any reviewer who gave this more than 2 stars.While a rabid Buffy fan myself, and one who's been pleased with the author's other works in the Buffyverse, I found this book to be pure drivel. Never having reviewed a book on Amazon before, this book was so bad that I felt a need for a forum to vent my disgust.