"Spark and Burn"

[shipperx]

My copy of the Spike novel Spark and Burn arrived in the mail today. And, yes, I'm the kind of person who reads the end of the novel first. Looks like this one ends right after the chipectomy in Season 7 (odd place to stop). Although I did like this point:

"He had *always* possessed the courage and strength of character to dance to a different drummer -- even as William. {...} [He] had always rejected the lie. It had been so much harder to be true to himself, to suffer ridicule and contempt. But that persistent essence, that certainty of who he was, had driven him to find a legend and endure unspeakable torment to get his soul back. {...} If the First -- the most powerful evil ever-- feared him, and the Slayer--the powerful force of good-- trusted him, then he was the man he had always wanted to be."