Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24447558-20140701205038/@comment-6383956-20140702014139

Nearly all of the Buffy tie-in novels are non-canonical though -- and while Nancy Holder did write some really good Buffyverse stories they don't allow work with the established canon of the show, though they're pretty close.

I don't take issue with saying something like that isn't canon. I do, however, think that if you're going to actually say it's not canon there should be a reason given -- like, "we're explaining all this stuff and it doesn't match" or "the backstory is all correct, but these events never happened", something like that. Or, like in the case of the Buffyverse, there should be tie-in works that are called canon and a big gaping silence about the ones we're not considering canonical.

The way this novel was handled just leaves us with all these questions!