Spark and Burn

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name = Spark and Burn
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Diana G. Gallagher
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country = United States
language = English
series = Buffy the Vampire Slayer
genre = Horror novel
publisher = Pocket Books
release_date = July 26, 2005
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 256 pp
isbn = ISBN 1-4165-0237-8
preceded_by = Mortal Fear (Buffy novel)
followed_by = Queen of the Slayers (Buffy novel)

Spark and Burn is an original novel based on the U.S. television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

Plot summary

Spike was born in the nineteenth century as a gentle, intellectual boy named William. As a young adult, he meets a woman called Drusilla, a mysterious vampire. William eventually becomes Spike.

He travels Europe with a band of vicious vampires, Dru, Darla, and Angelus. They show him his new existence, and from them he finds out about that most serious of enemies to vampires, one girl in all the world chosen to fight the vampires and the forces of darkness, the Slayer.

Having found a soul in Africa in the twenty-first century, Spike is tormented by the first evil and the guilt of his vampiric evils. He recalls many of the events that would lead him to the madness in a school basement.

Trivia

*Tagline: 'He's the "other" vampire with a soul'.
*Buffyverse canon Characters: include Spike, Buffy, Willow, Xander, Cordelia, Oz, Giles, Angel, Principal Wood, Nikki Wood, Darla, Drusilla, Clem, The First, Cecily, The Anointed One, Joyce, Devon, Ampata, Jonathan, Machida, Dalton, Tom Warner
*Buffyverse non-canon Characters: include Peak (shapeshifter), Otto (vampire), Pond (amphibian), Trevor, Klaus (Machida's henchmen), Jurgen Koch (Nazi demon hunter).
*Having no real story so to speak, this book is a character history of Spike's role in the Buffyverse. The author used the episode scripts, and revealed what Spike was doing when he wasn't seen on screen as well as what he had done on screen.

Continuity

*Most of the story is supposed to be set during the BtVS's seventh season episode Lessons. However the memories Spike recalls span the whole of Spike's history in the Buffyverse. For example why he was on a World War II sub (Why We Fight), and his earlier memories of the Scooby gang whilst he spied on them in Reptile Boy.

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

pike comics

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*"Spike vs Dracula"
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*"Spike & Dru"
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pike novels

*"Blackout"
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*"Spark and Burn"

External links

Reviews

* [http://www.teen-books.com/Spark_and_Burn_Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_141690056X.html "Teen-books.com" - Reviews of this book]