This is Joss's back story. I should mention that there is abuse as part of the training both mental and emotional. The Vladimir Tod series is very popular with students at my high school. I'm not sure about this series. It's a spin off of the Vladimir Todd series. But the perspective is from the counter point of the slayer rather then the vampire. The story does also fill in gaps left from the first series. I suppose I would add it to the collection. Joss does get beaten up quite a bit in his training to be a slayer and also a lot of vampires end up getting killed by the slayers.
