Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about yet another chosen one so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read Slayer by Kirsten White.

Joining us to discuss this Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Y-A novel that came out 16 years after the show's finale is Talia, musician, copy editor, and Buffy enthusiast.

Hey guys, thank you so much for having me.

I'm really excited to talk about some Slayer with you.

Talia, welcome.

Glad to have you.

So this is an interesting follow-up, I think, for us,

because our previous episode was a flashback summer vintage Buffy novel.

And this one, if you didn't guess by what I just said about

it coming out 16 years after the show, is a more recent book that came out in 2019.

For who, I don't know. And I feel like that will be something that we need to discuss.

Yes. So I guess a good place to start.

We did talk a little bit about this in the last episode is how much Buffy is everyone

familiar with?

So I am pretty familiar with Buffy.

I watched the show a number of times. I don't know. I can't quite know for sure. Maybe like 10 times overall, which is, I can't tell if that's like a lot or not a lot. But it's 10 times more than me. I'll tell you that.

And I think I saw it for the first time, like, my last year of college.

So I might have been a little bit of a latecomer.

I also have read the comic books, or some of them anyway.

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