First, let me say I really enjoyed the first two books of the City trilogy. Procession of the Dead is my absolute favorite of Shan’s books, and Hell’s Horizon was one of the best mystery stories...

OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: I was awaiting “City of the Snakes” since the moment I finished “Hell’s Horizon”. I knew that the third book would be taking a time leap and would be featuring characters from...

In City of the Snakes, the third book in author Darren Shan’s The City trilogy, readers are lead into the life of Al Jeery, a serial killer who takes on the appearance of his father in order to...

First off, I read this book without checking to see where it was in the City Trilogy. So, I read the last book before I read the second book! While reading this book, thankfully, Shan gave...

City of the Snakes is the final entry in Darren Shan’s The City trilogy. The City is so corrupt that it should have fallen to pieces when its criminal overlord, the Cardinal, died. However,...

With The City, Darren Shan seems to have filled a very particular niche. This is a dark series but well done, equal parts mystery and horror, casting a host of villains and really no traditional...

The City has been ruled by the Cardinal, but with his death Capac Raimi became in charge with one difference from his late predecessor; he cannot be killed. Capac is not human; instead he is an...

Waaaaay, way back in 1999, Orion Books published Ayuamarca: Procession of the Dead by Darren O'Shaughnessy. This was one of the last books in the 1990s wave of city-centred fantasy novels that...

THE twisted plot in the final book in international best-selling author Darren Shan's The City trilogy combines the mysterious past of the Incas, a phantom assassin and a trio of women who have a...

Starting ten years after the events of the first two books we meet up with Capac Raimi again whom we last really saw in Book One, though he was referred to in Book Two. We see that his rule as...

Darren Shan is one of those authors that you either love or hate. Personally I love the guy’s writing but that doesn’t mean that it will appeal to everyone. Within this offering is a tale that...

Well, I have to say I am very satisfied! Darren Shan’s City Trilogy is an amazing three-book ride I highly recommend! Notwithstanding my error in reading “City of Snakes” before “Hell’s...

The companion to The Procession of the Dead (2010) is set in the same strange city peopled with gangsters, villains, and blind Incan priests and ruled over by the enigmatic Cardinal. The action...

I’m so, SO glad that I was able to get my hands on the ARC for this. I really loved the first book in this series, “City of the Dead”, and it’s refreshing to see Shan’s style take a grittier turn...

☆:4/5: Shan keeps it real with more adventures in his “City” series.

Review: I’m so, SO glad that I was able to get my hands on the ARC for this. I really loved the first book in this...

Hell’s Horizon begins a bit differently than its predecessor as a murder occurs and we get to see who had a hand in it. We are then introduced to Al Jeery who is a lowly soldier in the Cardinal’s...

The Cardinal owns the City and Al is one of his guards. When assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman, Al finds it is his girlfriend Nic. Determined to get the truth, Al finds that...

With the release of the first installment of The City series, adult readers have been inaugurated into Darren Shan's peculiar, dark sense of humor. This bestselling author has a talent for...

Darren Shan's adult series, The City, makes his Cirque du Freak books look like bedtime stories! His second - and newest - installment, Hell's Horizon, is terrifying and gory (in the best way...

Darren Shan's adult series, The City, makes his Cirque du Freak books look like bedtime stories! His second - and newest - installment, Hell's Horizon, is terrifying and gory (in the best way...

Darren Shan returns to the city ruled by a mob figure, the Cardinal. It takes place at the same time as his previous tale about the Cardinal’s invented, though quite real, people in Procession of...

The Cardinal rules The City like a deity as he insures the disappearances of sundry people who don't just vanish; they also evaporate from the mind like a shaken Etchosketch.

His Party...

Second in the City trilogy, preceded by NY Times bestseller “Procession of The Dead,” this January release pursues its characters with a vengeance. Al Jeery guards the Cardinal, a person of great...

This book starts out questionable which should have clued me in. Naked woman nearly dead on bed in a gang-controlled hotel. Not quite dead so maid finishes her off.

The protagonist is Al...

Darren Shan’s Hell’s Horizon is a weird sequel — if you think it’s weird to completely ignore the hero of the first novel in a trilogy. After describing the mysterious and mystical rise of Capac...

Second installment in Shan's fantasy urban noir series (Procession of the Dead, 2010) set in an unnamed city ruled by fearsome gangster The Cardinal.

Reformed alcoholic Al Jeery is a loyal...

Shan’s second book about the City takes place during roughly the same time period as the first (Procession of the Dead, 2010) but features many new characters, only tying together events from...

Written before Darren O'Shaughnessy became a bestselling young adult author as Darren Shan, this gory companion to June 2010's Procession of the Dead is a twisting, paranormal gangster mystery....

Hell’s Horizon by Darren Shan is an ingenious thriller that will keep you turning the pages long after nightfall. Shan creates a compelling dystopian world populated with richly imagined...

The City is ruled by crime boss the Cardinal. Al "Algiers" Jeery works for the head mobster as a personal guard at Party Central. When Al’s new girlfriend Nic Hornyak is murdered in a hotel owned...

When people thought that they’d had a real ride of a journey with the first novel in this series by Darren, they’re not going to be prepared for the sheer energy as well as action exuded within....

Al is a member of The Cardinal’s mob of gangsters and has always carried out his job without question. But that’s all set to change when he is told to investigate a gruesome murder that means his...

The sequel to Ayuamarca is also set in an alternate dimension where elements of the Incan civilization emigrated to escape the invaders from Europe. In their own pocket universe, they have...

This novel follows Ayuamarca, Book One in the author’s ‘The City’ sequence [reviewed by John Newsinger in Vector 207]. I haven’t read the preceding volume but assume from the series’ subtitle...

An utterly fascinating and dark sequel to the equally compelling Ayuamarca, in which Darren O’Shaughnessy demonstrates the same quirky, imaginative style which made his first book in the sequence...

Known for YA horror, Darren Shan breaks new ground with "Procession of the Dead", a dystopian novel for adults. Fusing the supernatural, gritty realism and gangster noir, a flawed hero pursues...

Paranormal YA writer Darren Shan gives us his adult fiction debut with Procession of the Dead, the first book in his City trilogy. It is a truly curious book, and undoubtedly not for everyone....

Rating: 5/5 stars.

Initial Thoughts: I've never been able to get into the Cirque du Freak series by Darren Shan, but I LOVED the Demonata series. The books were fast, dark, and entirely...

A puppet-loving mobster, men who wear makeup, facial tattoos: Such are the things that tax the imagination of Darren Shan. Originally published in 1999 under his real name, Darren O’Shaughnessy,...

Procession of the Dead has had an interesting publication history. First published in 1999, Procession of the Dead was originally titled Ayuamarca and was intended to be the first novel in The...

Bestselling young adult novelist Darren Shan makes his first foray into adult fiction with an urban fantasy trilogy that begins with Procession of the Dead. For me, this novel felt like a cross...

Darren Shan's "Procession of the Dead" is the first book in his "The City" series, which has been published in Britain in 1999. The next two books, "Hell's Horizon" and "City of the Snakes," are...

Darren Shan has created a fascinating Noir-mystery-UF combo here and it focuses upon Incan myths. The biggest draw about this tale is its setting, the unnamed City is itself a character and even...

Back in May I popped into the Hachette Book Group offices for a visit. While there, Amy and I met and chatted with Jamie Levine, the Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing. As you can...

This dark urban fantasy grips readers from the first page as ambitious young Capac Raimi arrives in the City to become his gangster uncle's heir. He embraces his new life, puzzled only in passing...

First and foremost, I am horribly ashamed that it took me this long to actually get my hands on a copy of Darren Shan's Procession of the Dead. Because man, it is effing awesome, the premises are...

Popular YA author Darren Shan's first adult novel is a combination of horror and near-future thriller set in The City, which is the center of Capac Raimi's world. Moving into the city to work...

“I want power. I want the protection, comfort and safety that it brings. Without power you’re nothing, a corpse waiting to be reaped.” - Capac Raimi

Think Film Noir. Think black and white...

Sometimes it feels like life is one long procession of books and authors that I haven’t had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of. My daily commute gives me ample opportunity to steadily...

Darren Shan, known for his bestselling novels geared for younger readers, makes the transition to the adult novels with the first installment of his new apocalyptic series “The City.” Capac...

This dark, post-apocalyptic urban thriller is fast-moving and filled with suspense. The ending made me look forward to the next book in the series.

This import from the UK is the first installment of a bleak dystopian trilogy set in a mysterious, unnamed city. The Cardinal, the man who rules of this metropolis, kills Capac Raimi's uncle and...

PROCESSION OF THE DEAD by Darren Shan. This fantasy is set in a rather dystopian future city where sin and crime reign supreme and is the first book in The City series. Capac Raimi arrives in...

PROCESSION OF THE DEAD, the premiere book in a new series, The City, is Darren Shan's first foray into adult novels. We knew his Cirque du Freak novels were dark and creepy (if for a younger...

"If the Cardinal pinched the cheeks of his arse, the walls of the city bruised. They were that close, Siamese twins, joined by a wretched, twisted soul."

Capac Raimi arrives in the city...

Darren Shan, an already prolific children/young adult author makes his adult novel debut with Procession of the Dead (The City).

Young, witty and ambitious Capac Raimi arrives in the City...

This is the kind of story where the last hundred pages makes me glad that I stuck with the first two hundred. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy Procession of the Dead until the end, but that...

Gangster fantasy - call it thugpunk - with a curious history: The book, a revised version of Ayuamarca: Procession of the Dead (1999), resurfaced in the U.K. in 2008 as the first of a trilogy;...

The City is a dark playground for the criminal underworld and full of awesome potential. To get in on the action, Capac Raimi goes to live with his Uncle Theo in order to be trained in the...

Capac Raimi arrives in the City seeking his Uncle Theo. He wants his relative to teach him how to be the leader of a gang. Theo welcomes mentoring his nephew but before they can start with...

The name of this book is Procession of the dead and it is part of Darren Shan’s third series, and unlike The Saga Of Darren Shan and The Demonata it’s his first adult series and is most certainly...

You can listen to an Australian radio review of Procession of the Dead, along with several other book reviews and an interview with Neil Gaiman, by CLICKING HERE. The review of POTD comes right...

Darren Shan is the writer of two popular series for children, The Saga of Darren Shan and The Demonata. This is his first adult work, originally published in 1999 under the title Ayuamarca:...

When Capac Raimi arrives in the city, ambitious and determined, he has one goal only: to become a ruthless gangster and gain as much power as possible. Like everyone else in the city, he has...

So Darren Shan has moved onto adult aimed books, in fact he’s actually re-releasing The City series he released back in 1999. The expression “Don’t judge a book by its cover” comes to mind here,...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE title Ayuamarca back in 1999, Procession of the Dead has now been heavily revised by DB Shan for what the publishers describe as the “director’s cut” version, and...

Darren Shan has for a few years now been a favourite of Tara’s. So when this title, his first book written for adults, became available, I had to read it in order to find out what all the fuss...

an existential, minimalist crime fantasy. [Written in a] literary mode is Procession of the Dead, Darren Shan’s first book for adults. Written in 1999, it has been extensively revised and,...

Procession of the Dead comes from the Incan word Ayuamarca, which literally translated gives the book its title. It is also the Incan name for the month of November, and the title of the novel’s...

As trilogies go, D B Shan’s ‘City’ has been a long time coming. Procession of the Dead was originally released, as the author’s début novel, under the title Ayuamarca, in 1999. The second book...

The book was not popular. Those lucky few that found a copy to read would have no doubt found it a remarkably interesting and unique tale, but overall not many copies were sold - it took eighteen...

Capac Raimi is a young man arriving in a city and planning a new life; the life of a gangster. He plans to get right to the top, to topple the almighty Cardinal and to become the new crime boss...

The more books I read the less surprised I become at the poor quality of writing that passes for professional acceptance nowadays. However, reading Ayuamarca shows that there is light at the end...

When the citizens of one Incan village had a prophecy of the destruction of their civilization by the invaders from Europe, they followed their religious leaders in a journey to an alternate...

Darren O’Shaughnessy’s debut novel, Ayuamarca: Procession of the Dead features a protago­nist who has lost most of his memo­ries. Capac Raimi, whose Inca name is of central but obscure...

Millennium’s selling point for this book is its author’s youth, and at twenty-four, O’Shaughnessy has written a book that many older authors would be proud of. Young Capac Raimi goes to the big...

Wiseguy wannabe Capac Raimi comes to the City and is taken under the wing of all powerful crimelord The Cardinal, becoming a man of power and influence. But success in his chosen career opens the...

The blurb tells readers that Ayuamarca “marks the debut of a prodigious talent” and is “reminiscent of the best of Clive Barker and lain Banks”. I’m afraid not. The story is set in a South...

Darren O’Shaughnessy’s Ayuamarca reads like noir dialogue. It’s as gritty as sand in your bikini. O’Shaughnessy handles a more supernatural subject like Neil Caiman or Clive Barker, blending...

ORION imprint Millennium is describing as “an astonishing fiction debut” the first novel by 24-year-old Darren O’Shaughnessy, due out next week. Born in London, Darren moved with his family to...