Mortal Fear

by Denise Ciensin and Scott Ciencin

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743427718
• ISBN13: 9780743427715
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Loved the Book

I loved this book it was great espically when dawn was being bad and i liked when buffy had a date and trying to fix everything right again oh but they had a mixed up though the story taked place in the 7th season and they wrote 6 season because the story they wrote was in the 7th season.

*Great Characterization*

Despite what the historian tells you, Mortal Fear is set in the seventh season before the appearance of the First but after Selfless. Mortal Fear is one of few books that allows Dawn to play a active role. For those that hate Dawn, this book may confirm your feelings. The plot of the story revolves around Buffy, Dawn, Willow and Xander so don't expect much from Anya or Spike though they do make an appearance.The main story of this plot is that the scoobies are in a slump. Dawn (hormonally charged teen) is acting distant from Buffy and starts dating a troublesome guy. Willow struggles to hold back her dark side. Xander, although now very successful, is brooding over women troubles. Meanwhile, Buffy is running around town after demon attacks, collecting pieces to a soulsword told to her by a mysterious tipster called Simon. Things start to look up for the scoobies when they like the other Sunnydalers start to feel well...fearless. However without fear, the residents start to turn aggressive and both friend and family turn against Buffy. Vampires are also in the slump as their food turns out to be dangerous and Slayer and vampire work together, quickly before they are both killed by the humans of Sunnydale.For those that missed the simple day to day life detail of season seven, you'll love this book. It focuses much on the characterization of the foursome and you'll get to see their day to day life and moments that you wished had happened on the show. Overall a great book with great characterization and plot. Although the plot gets sci fi and complicated sometimes, it is very well written.

well written story

a mysterious person by the name of simon is telling buffy about demon attacks via phone right before they attack. buffy does not like having people tell her what to do but she knows she cannot let innocent people die either. among her problems, the people that she love start to act funny. dawn has a major crisis. she starts hanging out with a bad crowd and all of a sudden she is a changed girl who won't take orders from anyone least of all her sister.as buffy looks into the problem with dawn, it seems that the whole town of sunnydale has lost their minds. willow and xander are not there when she needs them the most and if she does not figure out what is happening she will have a town full of dead people.this forces her to make strange alliances and it makes for a long but rather interesting book. it is nice that dawn has a better part in the story and is not on the sidelines. i liked the book and hope the authors write more.

Simon Says, "Apocalypse Now..."

Buffy's running ragged around Sunnydale. She keeps getting anonymous tips, concerning demon attacks round and about town - in advance. Her mysterious source stays hidden in the shadows, and cloaked by magic. He calls himself "Simon," and Buffy does whatever he says - though she doesn't much like it. After all, how does this "Simon" character know so much? Is he sending the demons out to lunch on the Sunnydale citizenry himself, just to put Buffy through her paces for some agenda of his own? Why do the slain demons all dissolve into so much goo, and form themselves into more and more pieces of a lost legendary sword? And just what is "Simon's" admitted interest in this particular weapon?Complicating matters is the fact that Sunnydale itself seems to be growing more collectively insane, by the day. Kids, adults and senior citizens all seem to be developing a remarkable lack of inhibition, leading them to commit outrageous acts on nothing more than the impulse of the moment. Xander and Willow are being subtly targeted and preyed-upon by an unknown force, bent on unleashing their innermost desires and unlocking a strange power within them. And Dawn is literally turning renegade - and superhuman - in the throes of teenage hormones run wild.Even the vampires are willing to call temporary truce with the the Slayer, until Sunnydale's burgeoning crisis can be contained. They have to - something is poisoning their food supply, at the same time as it drives the mortals of Sunnydale crazy. With Xander, Willow and Dawn ganging-up on her, and no one but the mentally unbalanced vampire, Spike, and Xander's ex-fiancee, Anya, to help, can Buffy decipher the riddle of "Simon's" identity, and stop his - or someone else's - diabolical plan, before Sunnydale erupts in a kind of apocalypse, the like of which even Buffy Summers never could have dreamed?The Ciencin's write a first-rate Buffy tale, long, involved, well-developed and absorbing. I actually didn't think the plot to this one sounded all that promising, and was delighted to discover my preliminary judgment was greatly mistaken. Mortal Fear is one of the best of the Buffy books. It's well worth the read, and a real keeper.