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Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How To Hold On

by Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs
St. Martin’s. Apr. 2025. 256p. ISBN 9781250286246. $28. TV
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At loose ends after a move from New York City to Los Angeles, spouses Youngs and Russo decided to busy themselves with a creative project: a podcast about Buffy the Vampire Slayer called Buffering the Vampire Slayer. In it, the two began recapping and dissecting all seven seasons of the 1997–2003 TV series, and their podcast soon gained a massive audience. But a few years later, Russo and Youngs were struggling through homesickness, a miscarriage, and divorce. Keeping the events of their private lives from upending their public work on Buffy became a challenge. Both women take turns in this memoir to describe the winding paths of Buffering and their relationship. They focus on the strength and inspiration they drew from the show they both loved, their podcast, and their thousands of devoted listeners.
VERDICT An enthusiastic and emotional account of how personal lives and a fandom community can entwine. Potential readers should know that while the authors convey much love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the amount of content focusing on the TV show is relatively small, resulting in a book more likely to satisfy fans of the podcast specifically than Buffy fans in general.
Reviewed by Kathleen McCallister , Mar 21, 2025
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