Seven Crows (Buffy/Angel novel)

Infobox Book
name = Seven Crows
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image_caption = 1st edition cover
author = John Vornholt
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country = United States
language = English
series = Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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genre = Speculative fiction
publisher = Pocket Books
release_date = July, 2003
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 278 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-689-86014-5
preceded_by = Cursed
followed_by = Heat

Seven Crows is an original novel based on the television series "Buffy" and "Angel".

Book Description

Somewhere on the border between Mexico and Arizona lies a town where Riley Finn and his wife Samantha have been assigned to work. Their mission is to track down recent deaths in the desert area, there's a chance there might be some supernatural occurrence in relation to the deaths. But when they decide to call in reinforcements, they didn't realize that they'd be calling in backup from two different sources; Sunnydale and Los Angeles. Buffy and Angel join the married couple on their investigation and the unlikely team of Sam and Angel begins to make Riley double think their team in the first place. Riley also knows the increase in crows in the area, possible portents from a poem he remembers from long ago...

Trivia

*Tagline: 'Buffy and Angel, and . . . Riley?'.
*Buffyverse canon characters include: Buffy Summers, Angel, Riley Finn, and Sam Finn
*The book is mostly set in the desert.
*The poem goes like this: "One crow sorrow/Two crows mirth/Three crows a wedding/Four crows a birth/Five crows silver/Six crows gold/Seven crows a secret/Which must never be told".

Continuity

*Supposed to be set in the middle of Buffy Season 7, and Angel Season 4.

Canonical issues

:main|Buffyverse canon

:"Buffy"/"Angel" books 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"/"Angel" merchandise.

Timing

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

ee also

*Buffy books. These tend to surround the character of Buffy and the fictional town of Sunnydale
*Angel books. These instead focus on Angel and his so-called 'Fang Gang'
*“Tales of the Slayer” These chronicle the stories of past slayers
*All of the above can be described as “Buffyverse novels”

External links

Reviews

* [http://litefoot1969.bravepages.com/sf/buffy/novels/x_overs/05.htm "Litefoot1969.bravepages.com" - Review of this book by Litefoot]
* [http://www.teen-books.com/Seven_Crows__Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_and_Angel_0689860145.html "Teen-books.com" - Reviews of this book]
* [http://www.nika-summers.com/Library/novelsevencrows.php "Nika-summers.com" - Review of this book by Nika Summers]