Revenant (Buffy novel)

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Revenant
First edition cover
Author Mel Odom
Country United States
Language English
Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Genre(s) Horror novel
Publisher Pocket Books
Released January 2001
Media Type Print (Paperback)
Pages 386 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-7434-0035-6
Preceded by Power of Persuasion (Buffy novel)
Followed by Resurrecting Ravana (Buffy novel)

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

Contents

[edit] Plot summary

A Chinese gang arrives in Sunnydale and suddenly they're committing criminal acts all over the town. Immediately racial tension begin to increase and one of Willow's friends, Jia Li, is feeling the effects more than anyone else. She's discovered that her brother Lok is delving into the occult in order to learn more about their great grandfather's tragic death in Sunnydale many years ago. Coinciding with these events, a man named Zhiyong is trying to raise the men that died in a cave many years ago in order to raise Sharmma, a demon that would give him power in return. A beautiful warrior called Shing arrives on the scene at the same time and she's just as strong as Buffy. Xander feels an immediate attraction for her but there's something about her that he doesn't know...

[edit] Trivia

  • Tagline: 'A foreign evil has a new address'.
  • Characters include: Buffy, Joyce, Giles, Xander, Angel, Cordelia, Willow, and Oz

[edit] Continuity

  • Supposed to be set in an alternative late Buffy Season 3, more specifically April 1999. Wesley and Faith do not appear.

[edit] Canonical issues

Main article: Buffyverse canon
Buffy comics 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.

[edit] Timing

  • Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
Location, time
(if known)
Buffyverse chronology: January 1999 - Spring 1999
(non-canon = italic)
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Uninvited Guests
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy comic: The Final Cut
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Bad Blood
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.11 Gingerbread
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy comic: Bad Dog (by Doug Petrie)
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Crash Test Demons
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Pale Reflections
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.12 Helpless
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.13 The Zeppo
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy book: The Deathless
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.14 Bad Girls
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.15 Consequences
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.16 Doppelgängland
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy book: Doomsday Deck
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy book: Immortal
Sunnydale, 1999 B3.17 Enemies
Sunnydale, 1999 Buffy graphic novel: Angel: The Hollower
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Prime Evil
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Revenant
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.18 Earshot
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.19 Choices
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Power of Persuasion
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.20 The Prom
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Resurrecting Ravana
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy books: The Gatekeeper [Trilogy]
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Return to Chaos
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Visitors
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Unnatural Selection
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Obsidian Fate
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Deep Water
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: Here Be Monsters
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy book: The Book of Fours
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.21 Graduation Day, Part One
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 B3.22 Graduation Day, Part Two
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Sunnydale High Yearbook
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 Buffy comic: Double Cross

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Buffy novels


Buffy books in order of Buffyverse chronology

Tales of the Slayer | Pretty Maids All in a Row | Blackout | Halloween Rain | Coyote Moon | Night of the Living Rerun | How I Survived My Summer Vacation | Keep Me In Mind | The Suicide King | Colony | Night Terrors | After Image | Carnival of Souls | Blooded | Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary | Sins of the Father | Child of the Hunt | Ghoul Trouble | Paleo | The Evil That Men Do | The Deathless | Doomsday Deck | Immortal | Prime Evil | Power of Persuasion | Revenant | The Gatekeeper | Resurrecting Ravana | Return to Chaos | Visitors | Unnatural Selection | Obsidian Fate | Deep Water | Here Be Monsters | The Book of Fours | Sunnydale High Yearbook | Lost Slayer | Oz | These Our Actors | Unseen | Tempted Champions | Little Things | Crossings | Sweet Sixteen | Wisdom of War | Cursed | Blood and Fog | Monster Island | Wicked Willow | Seven Crows | Apocalypse Memories | Mortal Fear | Spark and Burn | Heat | Queen of the Slayers

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