Despite my high hopes for this book, I was very disappointed in the actual reading of it. I'm a big ANGEL and BUFFY fan, and I've read most of the novels; some of them have been pretty shoddy, but this one takes the cake. The writing is awful and completely disjointed; Angel's flashbacks are thrown in like a very badly placed afterthought, and Holder obviously wasn't able to spend enough time with this book. It's easily one of the worst novels I've ever read, in any genre, and puts the actual "City Of" episode to shame.