Immortal (Buffy novel)

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name = Immortal
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Nancy Holder
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country = United States
language = English
series = Buffy the Vampire Slayer
genre = Horror novel
publisher = Pocket Books
release_date = October 1999
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 309 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-671-04175-4
preceded_by = Doomsday Deck (Buffy novel)
followed_by = Prime Evil (Buffy novel)

Immortal is an original novel based on the U.S. television series Buffy.

Plot summary

Veronique is an immortal vampire that continues to return in the body of a newly dead person every time she has been staked. However, she wants to become truly immortal by summoning an ancient demon called the Triumvirate. And of course her choice spot to do so would be in Sunnydale, especially with the extra magical vibes emanating from the Hellmouth. Unfortunately, while Buffy is trying to keep Veronique's vampire henchmen at bay, she also has to deal with the fact that her mother is sick in the hospital. There's a chance that she has cancer, but they won't know for sure until they've performed surgery on her. Buffy has to decide where she's needed most: with her mother, or to stop the end of the world.

Trivia

*Tagline: Strike her down and she will rise again.
*Characters include: Buffy, Angel, Giles, Joyce, Xander, Willow, Cordelia, and Oz
*A key theme of the book is learning to cope with the uncontrollable factors of life.
*This is the only novel to have an audiobook format also available. The audiobook is abridged and is narrated by Charisma Carpenter:

Continuity

*Joyce's illness is foreshadowed
*In the UK, this was the first Buffy novel to appear in hardback form.
*Supposed to be set in an alternative Buffy Season 3. The book shares continuity with the Gatekeeper trilogy. For example the slayer, Lucy Hanover appears.

Canonical issues

:main|Buffyverse canon

:Buffy novels such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other fans consider them as taking place in an alternative fictional reality. However unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising their story, written early in the writing process, were 'approved' by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), and the books were therefore later published as officially Buffy merchandise.

Timing

*Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

ee also

*Buffy Novels
*Angel Novels
*“Tales of the Slayer”

External links

Reviews

* [http://litefoot1969.bravepages.com/sf/buffy/novels2/07.htm "Litefoot1969.bravepages.com" - Review of this book by Litefoot]
* [http://www.teen-books.com/Immortal__Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_0671041754.html "Teen-books.com" - Reviews of this book]
* [http://www.nika-summers.com/Library/novelimmortal.php "Nika-summers.com" - Review of this book by Nika Summers]
* [http://www.shadowcat.name/book0125.html "Shadowcat.name" - Review of this book]