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Control Issues Buffy Summers is being run ragged all over Sunnydale these days. Working from clues some mysterious power is providing her with, the Slayer's chasing down different baddies to gather pieces of a soul sword before it can be reassembled and fall into the wrong hands. While she resents following someone else's orders, at the same time it is oddly comforting to her to have a clear goal, and someone else making all the plans. Without Giles around, and with her relationships a mess, show more Buffy's at a point in her life where she could use some direction. Her friends are also searching for control in their lives, looking for areas they can excel in -- without magick or destruction. Xander and Willow figure there has to be a better way to get by, to get ahead for a change. But just when it seems as if their dreams are coming true, both are felled by a strange virus that has been sweeping through Sunnydale -- and thus "poisoning" the food supply for the local vamps. With lives at stake, Buffy must broker a truce with the vamps, find the rest of the sword, and locate her mysterious benefactor. All while fending off a rash of vicious attacks from the resident population -- and her friends and family! If Buffy was looking for a goal, she has one now: survival! show less

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Canonical title
Mortal Fear
Original publication date
2003-09-01
People/Characters
Buffy Summers; Dawn Summers; Willow Rosenberg; Xander Harris; Spike [vampire]
Important places
Sunnydale, California, USA
Dedication
To Jim and Lauria Bush-Resko, Tom Hurxthal, Martin and Michele Nicholas, and Renelle Desjardin, with love
First words
The skulking vampire shifted his gaze from the bright, bulbous moon, which lazily drifted up over the gently swaying, leaf-filled treetops of Weatherly Park, to size up this evening's dinner.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They walked away, together again. A family.

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Teen
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
LCC
PS3551 .W55Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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Rating
½ (3.38)
Languages
English
Media
Paper
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2