It's sort of sad how these Watcher's Guides have faded through the seasons. The first and second volumes consisted of the first seasons episode guides, (two in each volume), but they also had an awesome monster guide (before they put out the big official Monster Book), and guides to the main relationships and even in depth backgrounds on everyone from Marti Noxen and Joss Whedon to the stunt doubles and make up guys.

But, with Volume Three, not only did it stuff three seasons into the book, but instead of some sort of interesting minutia from the show, or even just the episode guide, this volume had the most vapid and sorta uninspiring essays by what seemed to be fans. Some of the essays were better than others of course, but with the other two volumes having so much amazing info and this one simply having some essays (and none of them really touching on the topic of Willow, Tara or hell even Kennedy or the Potentials, it just seemed like a let down.

So, for the episode guide in it, which was a good as usual this gets two stars, but the rest of the book gets no stars at all. It was horrible. ( )