Hell's Heroes, the 10th and final book of The Demonata, starts just after the events of book 9. Grubbs bids his uncle Dervish an emotional goodbye, then returns to the world beyond with a blind, captive Kernel, to take the fight to the demon armies which are crossing more and more frequently. But...
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Spinechills | 06 October 2011
The Epitaph (In a Nutshell): A highly satisfying ending to what is one of my all-time favourite series.
Dearly Departed,
We are gathered here today to discuss Hell's Heroes by Darren Shan. I'd...
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Children's Literature | 13 February 2011
This tenth and final book in The Demonata series is one of the grimmest, most hopeless-feeling YA books I have read in a long time. However, that is not to say that I did not enjoy reading the...
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Write Away | 11 September 2010
Spoiler alert!!! Do not read this review unless you have read the book, as it gives away a lot about the ending!!!!!
An excellent end to an excellent series. The book opens with Dervish's...
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Everything To Do With Books | 31 July 2010
Hell's Heroes, being the final book in the Demonata series, I had some expectations for it and I was a little disappointed. The majority of the book seemed like a filler for the big event at the...
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Teenreads.com | 22 July 2010
Since we last saw Grubbs Grady, things have not gotten better. The demons have found openings to the world. Lord Loss is in his glory. Grubbs is exhausted and heartbroken over the trail of blood,...
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Fresh Dawgs' Book Blog | 10 June 2010
This is the last book in the amazing Demonata series written by Darren Shan.
Grubbs Grady has had his Uncle Dervish in his life for years. Now with Dervish dead, along with Meera and other...
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Verbal magazine | 05 June 2010
Grubbs Grady, the narrator of this final instalment of the Demonata series, is at an all-time low.
Grubbs Grady, the narrator of this final instalment of the Demonata series, is at an all-time...
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Book Aid | 29 April 2010
Hell’s Heroes is the last book in Darren Shan’s blood-curdling Demonata series, and is by far the most thrilling yet…
Life is not going well for Grubstich Grady. Kernel Fleck is blind, Bec...
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Light WP | 02 March 2010
As it began, now it will end. Hell’s Heroes is the tenth and final book in the Demonata series by Darren Shan. It brings the series full circle, even ending with the same poem that the series...
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Books For Keeps | 01 March 2010
The climactic end of Dark Calling, book nine of Shan’s ‘Demonata’ series, saw Lord Loss and Bec forming an alliance whilst a growing unease and mistrust formed a rift between Grubbs and Kernel....
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Mightier Than The Sword | 11 October 2009
The End is Nigh. The Demons are here, the heroes are falling, the world is at its end. So not much has changed then!
Darren Shan, the Number One Master of Horror (as far as kids are concerned)...
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Diary Of A Nothingist | 07 October 2009
Darren Shan is a writer that I admire hugely. He writes fantastic horror stories and, when I've had the opportunity to see him live, does great readings and really cares about his fans. His...
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/ reviews for Dark Calling
Dark Calling , the 9th book of The Demonata, is set around the same time period as Death's Shadow and Wolf Island, so certain events near the start of the book overlap. Kernel is the narrator. While Grubbs was struggling with his wolfen half on Wolf Island, and while Bec and Beranabus were facing...
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Write away | 13 September 2010
It is Kernel's turn to be the first-person narrator in this book where we battle to bring down the Shadow, aka Death. After following Bec and Grubbs for the last two books we catch up on events...
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Bobs Books Blog | 13 April 2010
This is the 9th book in the Demonata series by the best writer of horror, writing for children. He started with the Saga of Darren Shan, the best series on vampires I have read.
The Demonata...
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Chicklish | 11 April 2010
Beranabus, Kernel, Grubbs, Bec and the rest of the group find out that there is a new leader of The Demonta. They try as hard as they can to find the creature, nicknamed The Shadow, and kill it,...
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Teen Reads | 23 November 2009
I fall, moaning and screaming, but not crying --- I no longer have eyes to weep with. The creatures that were spat into my eyes are munching on my brain now. I try to scrape them out with my...
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Not Quite Black Books | 27 July 2009
All I can say after reading this book is finaly things are explained! The ninth book out of a series of ten, Dark calling lets secrets lose, as Kernal finds out the secret of the Universe, and...
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Mightier Than The Sword | 14 April 2009
About the book...
Kernel Fleck sees lights - it's one very important factor to keep in mind. He sees lights, he had control these special lights, and now, they're talking to him. He fights...
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/ reviews for Wolf Island
Wolf Island, the 8th book of The Demonata, is set around the same time period as Death's Shadow, and certain events overlap. Grubbs is the narrator. Having accepted his role as Beranabus's assistant, he has been getting on with the job of trying to find out more about the mysterious Shadow by...
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Reviews for Wolf Island
writeaway.org.uk | 07 March 2009
The eighth book in the DEMONATA series. Back to Grubbs and the werewolf problem. Please note this review contains spoilers.
Review: This is not Darren Shan's best book by far. I wonder if he had a...
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Voya (USA) | 29 April 2010
Every Demonata reader knows that the Lambs are a necessary evil, ridding the world of innocent—albeit dangerous—teens who morph into werewolves and make the earth unsafe for humanity. But when...
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teenreads.com | 29 April 2010
The last thing that Grubbs Grady would ever want to do is to face the lycanthropic family curse. He knows what his heritage entails, and being a werewolf is one of them. Dangerous and overpowering,...
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tainted-poet.blogspot.com | 21 May 2009
Wolf Island is the 8th book in Darren Shan's book series The Demonata. Told from the POV of Grubbs Grady, this book coincides with the events in book 7 (and as well as book 9 (Dark Calling), which...
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School Library Journal (USA) | 29 April 2010
Grubbs Grady, his magical mentor Beranabus, and their ally Kernel-all featured in previous volumes—battle their way through the alternate worlds of demons and other creepy creatures. They kill all...
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everythingtodowithbooks.blogspot.com | 17 June 2009
Grubbs Grady treads new ground in this, the eighth dramatic title in the Demonata. But beware - Trespassers will be eaten!
I really love the Demonata series and Wolf Island was another good...
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DEMON (De Montfort University Student Union) (UK) | 29 April 2010
Darren Shan is by nature a children's writer but his newest collection "Tales Of The Demonata," is far from a children's book. Filled with thrills, chills and scares, Darren Shan exceeds...
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bookwyrmreviews.blogspot.com | 09 September 2009
Grubbs Grady, Meera Falme, and Shark set off with nine others to find and capture Prea Athim. Prea has stolen hundreds of werewolves from the Lambs and set them on the island, and it appears that...
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/ reviews for Death’s Shadow
NB: this plot outline contains Plot Spoilers about Book 6 of The Demonata!!! You should not read this unless you have read Demon Apocalypse!!!!!
Death's Shadow, the 7th book of The Demonata, is set several months after the events of Demon Apocalypse. The narrator is Bec, newly returned from the...
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Musha Books | 11 June 2010
Death Shadow is really different from the previous Demonata novels. Unlike the previous novels, Darren Shan, the author, says that this book is like a play. Why? Because the book is divided into...
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writeaway.org.uk | 26 June 2008
Please note this review contains spoilers.
This is the second book to focus on the female character. Bec. She is left alone with the depressed and morbid Dervish while Grubbs and Kernel go with...
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womslibrary.com | 29 April 2010
Book seven of the Demonata series, Death's Shadow, by Darren Shan, leaves nothing to the imagination when it comes to gore, but it lacks just a tiny bit on plot. Shan brings back characters from...
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waterstones.com | 05 May 2008
Darren Shan is back with the latest in the Demonata series. Everything was turned upside down in the previous book, Bill E died, Bec was brought back to life and Lord Loss and his Lackies are...
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teenreads.com | 29 April 2010
I felt myself drawn to the dead boy. As my spirit seeped into his corpse, I found myself capable of restoring the body's functions. …Bill-E drew breath…and so did I. My first free breath after...
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Sunday Tribune (UK) | 29 April 2010
Boys will be thrilled with yet another offering from the master of horror, Darren Shan. In Death's Shadow, the apocalypse has happened and the world has burned, but new life comes out of the...
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Sunday Herald (UK) | 29 April 2010
DEATH'S Shadow, the seventh book in the Demonata series, is written from the point of view of the female protagonist Bec, a fifth-century priestess who was recently released from her imprisonment...
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Stoke On Trent Sentinel (UK) | 29 April 2010
DARREN Shan's new book showcases the master of children's horror at his blood-curdling best. The book even contains a disclaimer: Warning -Seriously Scary.
After centuries of imprisonment, Bec is...
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samuelsreadingchair.blogspot.com | 19 December 2008
After 1600 years of imprisonment, Bec MacConn has returned to the world of the living – but it is a strange and unfamiliar world, full of baffling new inventions and unfriendly people. Fearful of...
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readerrabbit.blogspot.com | 04 August 2008
It seems that whenever I get these books, I always have something more important to do. So I always think, hey, I'll just read a chapter and then get back to work. But, it's never worked in the...
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nightsandweekends.com | 29 April 2010
After Beranabus frees Bec from the rock she’s been imprisoned in for centuries, she takes over Bill-E’s body, shifting it into a female version to fit her gender. Things have changed dramatically...
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paulcarrollwriter.blogspot.com | 24 August 2008
About the book
Death's Shadow is the seventh book in Darren Shan's Demonata series, where we enter once again the eyes of Bec. In a newly formed body, Bec finds herself 1600 years in her worlds...
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reviews.mibba.com | 05 May 2008
Death's Shadow, the seventh installment in Darren Shan's amazing second series, The Demonata, is just as action packed and gore-filled as it's predecessors.
This book is narrated by Bec, who, as...
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e-momagazine.com | 29 April 2010
You know that feeling when everyone in your class has been invited to the hottest party in town, and your invitation somehow got “lost in the post”? That's how we felt when reading Death's Shadow,...
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Children's Literature (USA) | 29 April 2010
Book seven in the "The Demonata" series focuses on Bec's stolen memories from Baranabus, the childhood friend she knew as Bran, and their current struggle against the Demonata. Bec thought her new...
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booksncpl.blogspot.com | 18 December 2008
Ultimate gore master Darren Shan has done it again!
In book seven of his Demonata series, the story is told by, once more, none other than Bec. After being brought back to life by stealing...
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bloglsp.blogspot.com | 06 May 2008
****1/2. I loved this book. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that yesterday, I got it at 12:30 and had read it by 21:00! That, ladies and gentlemen, is what Darren Shan does to you. Grubbs isn't at...
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bestbooks4ever.com | 29 April 2010
Darren Shans new book, Deaths shadow was the next book from his "The Demonata" Series and at this crucial point of the storyline things are just heating up. Its the seventh release of The Demonata...
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Belfast Newsletter Group (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
Taking up where book six of the Demonata left off, book seven follows Bec as she gets used to the modern world. Dervish is a broken man since the death of Bill-E but he hasn't time to grieve as the...
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/ reviews for Demon Apocalypse
Demon Apocalypse is set directly after the events of Book 5. Grubbs Grady is trapped on a plane with demons and seems doomed to die. Salvation comes from an unexpected quarter, but soon Grubbs wonders if he might have been better off perishing on the plane!
Grubbs becomes a reluctant assistant to...
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Musha Books | 11 June 2010
Grubbs Grady has succumbed to temptation and followed Juni to run away from life of demons and magic. But he gets a surprise when Lord Loss suddenly appears on the plane with three of his...
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writeaway.org.uk | 03 January 2008
Synopsis: The sixth book in the DEMONATA series. Grubbs has to overcome all his fears to save the world from – yes, you guessed it - a demon apocalypse. This is where all the pieces from the last...
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Voya (USA) | 01 February 2008
Shan's latest Demonata installment resumes where book five, Blood Beast (Little, Brown, 2007/VOYA February 2008), leaves off-soaring through the sky in a jumbo jet plagued by bloodthirsty demons....
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teensreadtoo.com | 29 April 2010
There are two things that Grubbs regrets the most: letting his transformation take away the lives of the ones he loved, and trusting Juni. When we last left him, Grubbs was on a plane ride with...
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teenreads.com | 29 April 2010
A demon shaped like a giant scorpion digs its stinger into a woman's eyes. As they pop, it spits eggs into the bloody sockets, then watches with its almost human face as the eggs hatch and...
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sarcade.wordpress.com | 29 April 2010
A kid’s book, huh? Wish these’d been around when I was a kid. I mean, the very first paragraph has a human-sized demon in the shape of a scorpion poke out some hapless victim’s eyes with its...
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samuelsreadingchair.blogspot.com | 18 December 2008
Grubbs Grady is trapped on an aeroplane with his mortal enemy, Lord Loss, and an army of bloodthirsty demons. His situation looks hopeless – until he is rescued by a mysterious tramp known only as...
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reviewcomplex.com | 29 April 2010
Demon Apocalypse by Darren Shan is the sixth book in his Demonata series.
Although advertised as a horror book, I find that it is more a fantasy fiction epic with a slight horror style. It follows...
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nightsandweekends.com | 29 April 2010
Book five in Darren Shan’s Demonata series left Grubbs Grady in the aftermath of a brutal betrayal, facing a master demon with no hope of coming out of it alive. Now, in book six, Grubbs finds...
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myshelf.com | 01 May 2008
In the bleak world of The Demonata, demons struggle constantly to break into human existence. Sometimes they manage it and humans die horribly. Demon Apocalypse opens with just such a breaking...
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Irish Independant (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
A must for all you horror fans out there. This is number six in The Demonata series and it's a gripping mix of dark, disturbing and gory fantasy-horror.
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ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com | 12 December 2008
“A demon shaped like a giant scorpion digs its stinger into a woman’s eyes.” - is the first line of a frantic opening in Darren Shan’s Demon Apocalypse, the 6th book in Demonata, a YA horror...
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hauntedwhispers.wordpress.com | 05 October 2007
Earlier on in the year, one of my friends was poking me to start reading the Darren Shan books. I’m quite the wimp when it comes to horror, and the best I’ve managed is the Point Horror Unleashed...
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gatewaymonthly.com | 29 April 2010
Grubbs Grady finally comes into his own as a master of magic - reluctantly. Shan's visceral fiction is so good. It's amazing to think that a generation ago this would have been considered adult...
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Exclusively Yours (UK) | 29 April 2010
The latest of Darren Shan's "Demonata" sequence (book 6) has been highly awaited by bloodthirsty young teenagers all over the country. It picks up from the cliffhanger ending of Blood Beast and...
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/ reviews for Blood Beast
Blood Beast is set about a year after the events recounted in Slawter. Grubbs Grady is back in Carcery Vale. His life seems to have settled down at last. He's getting on well with Dervish. He has lots of new friends at school. He's sweet on a girl and he thinks she might fancy him too. Apart from...
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Reviews for Blood Beast
Musha Books | 11 June 2010
Blood Beast takes place about a year after the events of Slawter. Grubbs, Dervish and Bill-E survived Slawter and Davida Haym with her accomplices are dead but the gang are now traumatized by the...
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writeaway.org.uk | 22 June 2007
Synopsis: The fifth book in the Demonata series. A welcome return to the continuing story of Grubbs Grady, Dervish and Billy-E. Grubbs has so far seemed to avoid the family’s werewolf curse but...
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thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk | 01 November 2007
Fans of Darren Shan's books know they are laced with excitement, horror and gore.
His phenomenonally successful Demonata series, which began with Lord Loss and continued through Demon Thief,...
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Waterstones Magazine (UK) | 29 April 2010
It's seven years since Darren Shan's novel Cirque du Freak made its debut on the boookshelves. In that time, he's clocked up sales of ten million, built up a loyal and bloodthirsty fan base and...
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Voya (USA) | 29 April 2010
"The Grubbster" grows up and out with his newly muscled physique and a clique of friends to go with it, but puberty equals the family were-curse, and although he is cool by day, Grubbs is sweating...
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thrushmetal.wordpress.com | 29 April 2010
Blood Beast puts readers back into modern day, about 1000 years after where Bec left off. It is another Grubbs Grady novel, so the ongoing storyline is the constant awareness that something...
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timesonline.co.uk | 30 June 2007
Darren Shan continues his gruesome Demonata series on top form in Blood Beast. Grubbs Grady discovers more about his family curse on a nightmare ride to Hell. Children of 12+ should lap it up.
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teensreadtoo.com | 29 April 2010
After four thrilling novels featuring Grubbs Grady and his adventures with his crazy but caring uncle, his half-
brother, Bill-E, and all the demons and monsters he's had to face (especially the...
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teenreads.com | 29 April 2010
“So here I am. I want to be an average teenager whose only worries are puberty, acne, scoring with girls, impressing my friends, and getting through school in one piece. But I’m forced to spend the...
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School Library Journal (USA) | 29 April 2010
Here's another horrific, edge-of-the-seat gore fest that will be in big demand from anyone who has ever whipped through Shan's previous volumes. Grubbs Grady, the protagonist of the first and third...
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samuelsreadingchair.blogspot.com | 21 November 2007
Following the horrific events of Slawter, Grubbs Grady has managed to settle back into a relatively normal life - hanging out with friends, avoiding the school counsellor, and trying to impress...
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readerviewskids.com | 01 January 2008
“The Demonata: Blood Beast” has an excellent plot with something new around every page. Darren Shan has a creative way of combining suspense, humor and fear so that you will want more, but at the...
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nightsandweekends.com | 29 April 2010
Grubbs Grady is like any other high school teen. He likes to hang out with friends and party when the grownups are away for the weekend. But every year he gets closer to the family curse. If he...
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Leicester Mercury (UK) | 29 April 2010
More horror for kids from the master of the genre in this fifth title of The Demonata. Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of...
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just-for-kids.com | 29 April 2010
What this book is about:
A rather slow but exciting book, i must say! This time Darren decided to carry on with Grubbs story. in this book Grubbs deals with bad dreams and has to cope with going...
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INIS (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
This is the fifth instalment in a new series of horror/dark fantasy from prolific Irish author Darren Shan which continues the adventures of Grubitsch 'Grubbs' Grady as he struggles to maintain an...
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Independant on Sunday (UK) | 29 April 2010
This is Darren Shan's fifth book in his series of 10, "The Demonata", and, as always, he's a joy to read. Though not as good as the previous four, this still has plenty of action, once it...
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independent.co.uk | 22 July 2007
This is Darren Shan's fifth book in his series of 10, "The Demonata", and, as always, he's a joy to read. Though not as good as the previous four, this still has plenty of action, once it gets...
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gatewaymonthly.com | 29 April 2010
The master of horror returns with a new spine-tingling adventure in the fifth title of The Demonata...
"Locked inside Dervish's study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still...
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flamingnet.com | 01 November 2007
Blood Beast is about Grubbs Grady, a teenager who has battled demons to save his half-brother's life. Now, he is fighting for his own. When his Uncle Dervish goes away for a weekend, Grubbs throws...
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Evening Echo (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
TEEN WEREWOLF SAGA IS A MONSTER SMASH
“It's the family curse. Lots of us turn into werewolves. It's been in the bloodline for more generations than anyone can remember. It strikes in adolescence....
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Carousel (UK) | 29 April 2010
Having moved on from vampires to werewolves this section of the Demonata series is the best so far and the most seriously scary. The family of Grubbs Grady are cursed; some change into ferocious...
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ciao.co.uk | 12 June 2007
Blood beast, the fifth instalment in the series of ten books that are the demonata series. This book was only recently released and I finished reading it last night and you know what, for the first...
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Bookworm (UK) | 29 April 2010
THE latest paperback from the number one author of children's horror comes with a warning: seriously scary. And it's not wrong. I don't know about children, it'll frighten the living daylights out...
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thebookbag.co.uk | 01 June 2007
In Blood Beast, the fifth book in Darren Shan's Demonata series, the lycanthropic nightmare continues for teenager Grubbs Grady. He's already lost his parents and his sister to the family werewolf...
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Aldershot Mail (UK) | 29 April 2010
The full moon is causing concern in Blood Beast, the latest title in the Demonata Series from Darren Shan. Shan has become the master of children's horror fiction and in this new story,...
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Aberdeen Evening Press (UK) | 29 April 2010
KIDS love horror stories which explains why Darren Shan books fly off the shelves as soon as they arrive. There's little reason to doubt this one, the fifth in Shan's Demonata series, will be...
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/ reviews for Bec
Bec is a young orphan living in a small ring fort in Celtic Ireland. She is studying to be a priestess. She's not especially powerful, but she has an extraordinary memory and her teacher, Banba, believes she can one day prove herself useful to the clan they live with. It is a time of great change...
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Reviews for Bec
yetanotherbookreview.com | 29 April 2010
Bec is the second out of the four books in the Demonata series, so far, that is something I would deem a flashback novel. This novel is set in the 5th century Ireland when Christianity started...
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goldcreek.act.edu.au | 01 August 2007
This fourth story in The Demonata series takes horror to an all new level. The book begins and ends with the ominous words Screams in the dark and between these words there are certainly many...
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goldcreek.act.edu.au | 01 August 2007
This fourth story in The Demonata series takes horror to an all new level. The book begins and ends with the ominous words Screams in the dark and between these words there are certainly many...
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writeaway.org.uk | 21 November 2006
Synopsis: It starts with screams in the dark in true Shan style as the priestess Bec enters the world to battle the hoards of Demonata threatening to break through into our world and destroy...
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thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk | 08 December 2006
Darren Shan's gruesome stories sell by the millions, testifying to the huge appetite that children have for all things scary. His big breakthrough came with his first children's book, Cirque du...
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thrushmetal.wordpress.com | 29 April 2010
Although Bec is the fourth book in the Demonata series, chronologically, it takes place before the first three. Those of you whose first thought is, “hey, isn’t that like the Narnia series?” not...
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teensreadtoo.com | 01 May 2007
Bec has never led a normal life, or was never given the chance to. Born only remembering her mother and how she passed away, Bec was saved by a village’s priestess who urged the village leaders to...
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teenreads.com | 29 April 2010
Found dead on the outskirts of the rath's walls, Bec's mother has struggled desperately to get her baby to safety. When the villagers find them, they take the child in as one of their own....
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teenink.com | 29 April 2010
Darren Shan has magical ways of writing tales for those who are not faint of heart. Whether it be the Demonata or Cirque Du Freak, the gut-wrenching tales will have you turning pages faster than...
Read full review: Bec (Teen Ink USA)
Sunday Business Post (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
Irish author Shan - the pen name of Darren O'Shaughnessy - is a hugely prolific writer of horror novels for children, most of them revolving around vampires (his 'Cirque du Freak'...
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samuelsreadingchair.blogspot.com | 01 August 2007
Life in a demon-besieged fort is far from easy for Bec; a young priestess-in-training. Her mentor and mother have long since died, and her magic is weak and raw from lack of instruction. She sees...
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rbwm.gov.uk | 29 April 2010
Bec is the 4th book in the Demonata series. The story follows Bec, a trainee priestess, back in time time of the Picts and the Celts. Bec remembers her birth, she remembers her mother - that is...
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ofsimilesandsyntax.blogspot.com | 03 July 2008
Simple, Fast, Horrible.
Why I read it: Since this book was published I've been moaning about the linking of my name to an evil ugly monster/demon/thing. It was time I stopped 'judging a book by...
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mint-green.livejournal.com | 16 March 2007
Well, I finally read Bec. My first Friday off to study for the final exams (yes, huzzah, from now on no more Fridays at school, which effectively cuts out the worst day of the week, Thursday...
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The Mail on Sunday (UK) | 29 April 2010
Darren Shan deserves to be knighted for his services in getting boys to read, but, as his books tend to be about people having their guts torn out by ravening demons, it's unlikely he ever...
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lovereading4kids.co.uk | 02 October 2006
If you know someone who enjoys the feeling of fear and terror whilst reading then there is no one doing it better than Darren Shan. Bec continues the successful Demonata series but the book also...
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Irish Post (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
Darren Shan's real name is Darren O'Shaughnessy. He was brought up in Co. Limerick and originally wrote for adults. He is the author of the phenomenally successful horror series for children,...
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INIS (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
This is Darren Shan's fourth book in his Demonata series, following on his hugely successful twelve-volume Saga of Darren Shan. Each of his books is eagerly awaited by his avid fans,...
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independent.co.uk | 03 December 2006
I expected a lot from Darren Shan's 16th novel, Bec (Harper Collins £12.99), and I got a lot. This book was easily as exciting as the other three books in the Demonata series.
Bec is an apprentice...
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gatewaymonthly.com | 29 April 2010
I was expecting the further adventure of Grubbs and Dervish, but this one is, if anything, even better - a superb tale of Druids and Demons, a first-person tale by Bec, the untrained magician, and...
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Evening Echo (Ireland) | 29 April 2010
IN THE explosive fourth book of the Demonata series, horror writer Darren Shan throws us back to the time of crannogs, druids and murderous demons. Bec, a young trainee priestess, was...
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crowgrrl.com | 10 June 2007
Darren Shan's Bec is the fourth installment of the excellent Demonata series. This one is a totally unexpected gem in the demonic crown! Not only does this focus on a female lead character for...
Read full review: Bec (Crowgrrl’s Perch USA)
dondammassa.com | 13 December 2007
The fourth title in the Demonata series, supernatural fantasy adventures for younger readers, claims to be "chilling", but despite the plethora of demons found within this slender volume, it is...
Read full review: Bec (Critical Mass USA)
courierpress.com | 12 August 2007
This is the fourth book in Shan's Demonata series, which follows several main characters who all live in different places and times. This title is set in pre-Christian Ireland, far removed from the...
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CIAO (UK) | 29 April 2010
REVIEW BY: "Bluebolt 44"
This book is amazingly well put together, just like all of Darren Shan's work though. He conveys the emotions and feelings of all characters towards their situations and...
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childrenslit.com | 28 November 2008
Bec is the fourth book in the "Demonata" series. Bec is an orphaned apprentice priestess. Her teacher died leaving her to care for her village. The village struggles to defend itself from nightly...
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Books for Keeps (UK) | 01 March 2007
To my shame, this is the first of Shan's books I have read; I now understand why they are so popular. This is the fourth in the Demonata series, but the novel can stand alone. However, Shan fans...
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Books Quarterly Waterstones (UK) | 29 April 2010
Life was easy when Bec was just an orphan taken in by a mysterious priestess, but then the demons began their attacks. An unusual messenger signals the start of the heroine's flight...
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bookendsonline.co.uk | 29 April 2010
This is the 4th book in the Demonata series from popular young adult writer, Darren Shan. Set in Ireland approximately 2000 years ago, Bec is a trainee Priestess who must use her skills to fight...
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associatedcontent.com | 29 August 2008
"The Demonata exist in a multi-world universe of their own. Evil, Murderous creatures, who revel in torment and slaughter. They try to cross over into our world all the time..."
The tales in this...
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/ reviews for Slawter
"There are no happy endings ..." This is what Grubbs Grady has just found out. Life should be perfect after he and Dervish got the better of the demon master, Lord Loss. But the battle has left its marks and Dervish is a haunted man. When an offer comes along to get involved in the making of...
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Musha Books | 11 June 2010
Slawter continues a few months after the first book (not second) of the Demonata series. This time, Dervish is invited to the set if the new, secretly produced film, Slawter that focuses on...
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goldcreek.act.edu.au | 01 March 2007
If you are in for a scary read then look no further than Slawter. This story, Book 3 in The Demonata series cranks up the scare factor and is truly horror. Returning to Dervish Grady, Grubbs and...
Read full review: Slawter (Audio Book) (YARA Australia)
goldcreek.act.edu.au | 01 February 2007
This entire story can be described with one word: gruesome. The book is horror, so it is appropriate, but for me there was too much blood, gore and guts. One of the main characters has raging...
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Write Away (UK) | 29 April 2010
Slawter is the third book in Darren Shan's second bestselling series 'The Demonata'; following Lord Loss and The Demon Thief. Arguably the master of children's horror, Darren Shan...
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thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk | 08 December 2006
Darren Shan's gruesome stories sell by the millions, testifying to the huge appetite that children have for all things scary. His big breakthrough came with his first children's book, Cirque du...
Read full review: Slawter (Westmorland Gazette UK)
Voya (USA) | 29 April 2010
Grubbs Grady returns with a vengeance in the third book of the Demonata series, but this time his role shifts from petrified orphan to supernatural guardian. Uncle Dervish, plagued by Lord Loss's...
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timesonline.co.uk | 29 July 2006
Darren Shan’s Demonata series needs nerves of steel even before you’ve opened the snarling, glow-in-the-dark covers. Grubbs Grady’s parents invoked a magical family bargain in the hope of saving...
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telegraph.co.uk | 16 July 2006
Like war, writing fiction for young people can often be a "brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art". Anybody raised on the Brothers Grimm can probably get through American Psycho without turning a...
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Teen Titles #37 (UK) | 29 April 2010
Grubbs Grady is helping his uncle Dervish recover after his horrific battles in the Oemonata universe. Grubbs would like a demon-free future, but, when they are invited to give advice on the...
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teensreadtoo.com | 29 April 2010
Darren Shan is at the top of his form in his latest masterpiece of gruesome demons and terror. This third book in the DEMONATA series picks up where Demonata #2, The: Demon Thief: Book 2 in The...
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teenreads.com | 01 September 2006
It's a demon. Five long, spindly legs. The body of a giant ant. A long neck and the head of some sort of rabid monkey. No arms, but several small mouths in addition to its main one, sticking out of...
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stumblebumstudios.com | 29 April 2010
Welcome back to Darren Shan's world of demons, werewolves, magic, and chess: Demonata. In this episode Dervish is slowly losing his mind since coming back from battling Lord Loss, demon master....
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pink-world.co.uk | 29 April 2010
If you love being scared sleepless then Darren Shan’s latest is one for you. This is the third in the Demonata series, which, I think, is way scarier than the vampire chronicles. In this book we go...
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pagesandpages.com.au | 29 April 2010
The third and most gruesome book so far in Darren Shan's Demonata series. Grubbs and his uncle Dervish are slowly readjusting to life after their fiery battle with Lord Loss, the demon master. But...
Read full review: Slawter (Pages and Pages Australia)
myshelf.com | 01 November 2006
Nobody does mayhem quite like Darren Shan in his latest masterpiece of gruesome demons and terror. This is the third book in the Demonata series and picks up where The Demon Thief left us. Dervish...
Read full review: Slawter (My Shelf USA)
lovereading4kids.co.uk | 03 January 2007
Horror lovers will rejoice in best-selling Darren Shan’s latest in the Demonata series. A trip to Demonata leaves Dervish Grady haunted by the demons in the nightmares that follow. Can he find any...
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Liverpool Echo (UK) | 29 April 2010
FROM the king of children's horror comes the third feverishly anticipated title in The Demonata. The idea for Slawter came to Darren Shan after a couple of visits to the Harry Potter set when he...
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independent.co.uk | 09 July 2006
Darren Shan is excellent as usual with his latest, Slawter (Harper Collins £12.99). A famous film director tries to make a film about demons. No one knows about it. It's secret. The town in the...
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gatewaymonthly.com | 29 April 2010
Darren Shan's extraordinary exposé of the demonata continues in possibly his best book yet - Slawter takes on a terrifying journey into similar territory to that explored in Buffy the Vampire...
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independent.co.uk | 26 July 2006
this short review appeared in The Independent, where "Slawter" was chosen by the reviewer as one of the Ten Best books for children aged 8-12
One of CY magazine's choices for the summer. Lots of...
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Cyclub Book Club (UK) | 29 April 2010
Tagline - there are no happy endings... well, what do you expect, it's a Darren Shan book. He cleverly uses a film studio to lure us into his next meeting with demons, just in case you were...
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crowgrrl.com | 10 December 2006
The third installment of Darren Shan’s excellent The Demonata series, Slawter, is finally out in the U.S.! The Crowgrrl greedily devoured every delicious word!
Again, we revisit the lives of...
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County Times (UK) | 29 April 2010
With a grisly glow in the dark cover, Darren Shan's third book in his Demonata series Slawter is now available in paperback, following on from Lord Loss and Demon Thief. Given Dervish...
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Children's Literature (USA) | 29 April 2010
Any novel that starts out with such immediate action as "My eyes! My eyes! They stabbed out my eyes!" must be full of page-turning adventure. Right from the start you are hooked in this third...
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Carlisle News and Star (UK) | 29 April 2010
Slawter is not for the faint-hearted. It's as gruesome as any book for children could get away with being and sure to be another bestseller for Darren Shan. The Demonata is part of Shan's...
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ca-reviews.blogspot.com | 17 February 2007
NOTE: If you haven’t read the first two books in this series, this review contains plot spoilers.
Grubbs Grady (last seen in Book 1, LORD LOSS) is getting back to a normal life. He and his Uncle...
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Bury Free Press (UK) | 29 April 2010
Grubbs Grady's sister turned into a werewolf and his uncle Dervish keeps having awful nightmares about his treatment at the hands of the deadly, eight-armed demon master Lord Loss. When...
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Books for Keeps #162 (UK) | 01 January 2007
Before today, I had managed to avoid reading any Darren Shan, which means I had missed all 12 of his series of vampire novels (The Saga of Darren Shan'), and I have connected with this publishing...
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bookloons.com | 29 April 2010
Slawter follows Lord Loss and The Demon Thief as the third book in the Demonata series, in which demons make regular incursions into our world, bringing the worst imaginable nightmares to reality...
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thebookbag.co.uk | 29 April 2010
Slawter is the third volume in Darren Shan's Demonata series, and the second to feature the potentially lycanthropic Grubbs Grady and his uncle, Dervish. In Shan's wonderfully humorous world of...
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achuka.co.uk | 28 April 2010
“Never trust fairy tales. Any story that ends with “They all lived happily ever after” is a corck. There are no happy endings. No endings, full stop. Life goes on. There’s always something new...
Read full review: Slawter (Achuka UK)
/ reviews for Demon Thief
Kernel Fleck's a lonely child. He's always been different -- he can see strange patches of light in the air around him. Other kids think he's mad. But when he manages to link some of the lights together, he creates a window into another universe, and disappears for several days. When he...
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goldcreek.act.edu.au | 01 September 2006
Following on from Lord Loss, Demon Thief is another scary and immensely gripping (on-the-edge-of-your-seat type) tale of terror. This time the story features Kernel Fleck whose world is shattered...
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improbability.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk | 28 April 2010
Darren Shan is most famous for his twelve book Vampire series. He specialises in gruesome horror for teenagers and this is no different. The Demon Thief is actually the second book in his new...
Read full review: Demon Thief (Write Away UK)
Voya (USA) | 28 April 2010
Travel between dimensions and back in time with Cornelius, aka "Kernel" Fleck, the bald, eccentric youth whose only friend is his little, razor-toothed brother Art. Although Kernel has seen plenty...
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T.E.S. (UK) | 28 April 2010
Darren Shan acquired a loyal fan base in primary schools with his 12-book cycle The Saga of Darren Shan. Demon Thief is the second volume in his new series for older readers, The...
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Teen Titles (UK) | 28 April 2010
Kernel Fleck has always been lonely and felt different. He has been bald from birth and can see patches of light no one else sees. These patches reveal the Demon Master, Lord Loss. Kernel...
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teenreads.com | 28 April 2010
Demonata definition: They exist in a multiworld universe of their own. They've been around as long as mankind, maybe longer. Evil, murderous creatures, who revel in torment and slaughter. They try...
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teenfictionreviews.blogspot.com | 14 February 2006
It’s possible to sum up Darren Shan’s Demon Thief, part of the Demonata series, in one quotation from the novel itself: ‘the universe demands sacrifice and pain of its champions.’
Kernel Fleck is...
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stumblebumstudios.com | 28 April 2010
Demon Thief is book two in the Demonata series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Cirque du Freak series, Darren Shan. This book is the prequel to the first one, Lord Loss. With most...
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School Library Journal (USA) | 28 April 2010
Kernel is a teenager with an odd talent -- he sees pieces of colored light floating in the air, and if he concentrates he can put them together like a jigsaw puzzle into a window shape. But...
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rbwm.gov.uk | 28 April 2010
This is the second book in the Demonata series. The main character is Kernel Fleck, a lonely boy with the strange ability to manipulate pulses of light. When his baby brother is stolen by demons,...
Read full review: Demon Thief (RBWM UK)
The Herold (UK) | 28 April 2010
Prequel to "Lord Loss" in Shan’s new "Demonata" series. The central quest is so desperate – a misfit boy who literally goes to hell and back in search of his baby brother, abducted by a monster –...
Read full review: Demon Thief (Herold UK)
gatewaymonthly.com | 28 April 2010
Shan never ceases to amaze me - when I was a teenager I was getting frightened by spiders in THE HAUNTING OF TOBY JUGG - nothing like this existed. Graphic in its gory detail, this is an...
Read full review: Demon Thief (Gateway UK)
crowgrrl.com | 27 August 2006
The second book in Darren Shan’s series The Demonata is out: Demon Thief, and it seriously dishes up some Hellish scares!
Growing up "different" is never easy even in the best of circumstances....
Read full review: Demon Thief (Crowgrrl’s Perch USA)
CIAO (UK) | 28 April 2010
Darren Shan, author of the great cirque du freak trilogy, comes out with yet another great series, in this case the series of the Demonata. It kicked off with the previous book, Lord Loss, in which...
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ca-reviews.blogspot.com | 14 February 2007
Ever since he was very young, Kernel (short for Cornelius) Fleck has seen lighted shapes in the air. They just sort of float there, and if he concentrates, he can move them around to form patterns....
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Bexley Extra (UK) | 28 April 2010
The king of kids' horror, Darren Shan, is back ensuring that his readers all have nightmares before Christmas -- and that's how they like it. After the spine-tingling terrors of "Lord Loss", "The...
Read full review: Demon Thief (Bexley Extra UK)
/ reviews for Lord Loss
Grubbs Grady is an average kid. A bit bigger and slyer than a lot of boys his age (he loves to play evil, ingenious tricks on his sister), but nothing special. He leads an ordinary life, and expects it will always be that way. But when his parents and sister behave strangely ... and Grubbs decides...
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Quirkipedia | 07 June 2011
I first stumbled across Shan's work after asking some advice over at Litopia. My query was simple - as a spot of research, I needed the names of authors who wrote young adult books that pushed...
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How Monica Sees It | 14 December 2010
Lord Loss is a demon, everyone fears him. All except one. For once, someone has been able to conquer their feelings when Lord Loss has tormented him several times. Grubbs has accepted the truth,...
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Young Post (UK) | 28 April 2010
First of all, a warning. Lord Loss is a book intended to give you sleepless nights and bad dreams. If this is okay with you, then you will love it. This is the latest horrorfest to be unleashed by...
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goldcreek.act.edu.au | 01 March 2006
this is a review of the audio CD of "Lord Loss"
Darren Shan turns his attention from vampires (The Saga of Darren Shan) to werewolves and demons in his new series The Demonata. The first book,...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Yara Australia)
improbability.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk | 28 April 2010
Hot on the hells of the finale of his international, multi-million selling, twelve book vampire saga, Darren Shan has plunged straight into another horrifying series. Lord Loss is the first in the...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Write Away UK)
Waltham Forest Guardian (UK) | 28 April 2010
Master of horror Darren Shan has returned with a brand new saga, featuring all new characters, an all new story and of course new terror. Lord Loss isthe first book of The Demonata which will be a...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Waltham Forest Guardian UK)
Voya (USA) | 28 April 2010
Shan pumps up the gore to maximum decibels in his ghastly introduction to the Demonata series, where werewolves and demons take center stage. Fans will remain riveted to the aggressive, clipped...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Voya USA)
The Times (UK) | 28 April 2010
Lord Loss should come with a health warning. It is not for children under 12, and those who do read it should be immune to nightmares. Grubbs, a surly teenager, returns home and finds his parents...
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Teen Titles (UK) | 28 April 2010
[Teen Titles is a Scottish book magazine which features reviews from teenage readers. These are the reviews they published about Lord Loss.]
Grubitsch Grady has just experienced the horror of his...
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teenreads.com | 28 April 2010
Grubbs Grady knows how to get into trouble. It seems that most of his life is spent in yelling fights with his parents or getting revenge on his sister Gret for whatever. It's not that his mom and...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Teen Reads USA)
teenink.com | 28 April 2010
A story packed with Demons and magic. An epic story, full of action and horror. Darren Shan’s first book in the Demonata series. Darren Shan’s first series is a New York’s bestseller. His first...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Teen Ink USA)
Science Fiction Chronicle (USA) | 28 April 2010
Darren Shan leaves his ongoing series about a young vampire for this new novel, in which a somewhat rebellious teenager decides to strike out on his own for a while, and becomes involved with...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Science Fiction Chronicle USA)
School Library Journal (USA) | 28 April 2010
When sneaky teenaged Grubbs Grady finds himself mysteriously dumped on his aunt's doorstep, he can't help but steal back home to figure out what's going on. Unfortunately, when he arrives, his...
Read full review: Lord Loss (School Library Journal USA)
theromancereadersconnection.com | 28 April 2010
Grubbs Grady is about to find out that his name is far from the worst thing that will happen to him in his life. He knows that his parents and older sister are keeping something from him, and he’s...
Read full review: Lord Loss (The Romance Reader’s Connection USA)
Publisher's Weekly (USA) | 28 April 2010
The author of the popular Cirque du Freak books launches another no less gruesome series with this first installment in the Demonata books. Readers meet teen narrator Grubitsch Grady ("Grubbs") in...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Publisher’s Weekly USA)
Ottakar's Portsmouth (UK) | 28 April 2010
Grubbs Grady is a normal schoolboy who belongs to what seems to be a normal family with an abnormal obsession with chess. The children are forced to become experts in the game with no explanation...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Ottakar’s Portsmouth UK)
Ottakar's Lowestoft (UK) | 28 April 2010
Legions of Darren Shan fans worldwide will breathe a sigh of relief with the publication of Lord Loss, the first in the new Demonata series. Parents be aware, this is far more gruesome than the...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Ottakar’s Lowestoft UK)
Ottakar's Edinburgh (UK) | 28 April 2010
I don't like horror films and I certainly don't like to read horror books but I read "Lord Loss" and found I couldn't put it down. After Grubbs witnesses the horrendous murders of his family, he is...
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opendiary.com | 28 April 2010
This is a much stranger, but I believe better written series by Mr. Shan. It deals with a grouping of demons, called the Demonata, and the second book just came out earlier this year. It focuses on...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Of Strange Written Sounds USA)
Newcastle Evening Chronicle (UK) | 28 April 2010
Grubbs Grady is a really awkward boy who accidentally opens the door to Hell. Evil spirits have killed his parents and big sister but Grubbs manages to escape alive. When he tells his story to the...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Newcastle Evening Chronicle UK)
Newbury Weekly News (UK) | 28 April 2010
The warning on Darren Shan's "Lord Loss" states that it is 'seriously scary'. True. If you can keep your breakfast down as you read the second chapter then you're on your way to a great read as...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Newbury Weekly News UK)
myshelf.com | 28 April 2010
Lord Loss is not a book for the faint of heart; it's very dark and very violent. Grubbs Grady is a normal teen, a little self-involved and sometimes casually cruel, but not so different from any...
Read full review: Lord Loss (My Shelf USA)
MESA Library (USA) | 28 April 2010
Lord Loss is the grisly tale of demons, werewolves, and the value of family. When Grubb’s family is murdered by the demon master, Lord Loss, and his gruesome familiars, Grubb’s life—and his...
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Kliatt (USA) | 28 April 2010
The popularity of Shan's Cirque du Freak series guarantees an audience for this creepy horror story, first in a new series. "I've seen demons rip my world to pieces," teenager Grubbs Grady wails,...
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Kirkus Reviews (USA) | 28 April 2010
Any kid who has teased younger siblings with chants of "greasy, grimy, gopher guts" will feel right at home in this horror tale. Shan, author of the successful Cirque du Freak series, introduces...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Kirkus USA)
just-for-kids.com | 01 November 2005
From the author of the "Cirque Du Freak" series comes this first book in a terrifying new horror series called "The Demonata". When Grubbs Grady opts out of a family trip, everything seems normal....
Read full review: Lord Loss (Just for Kids USA)
homepage.eircom.net | 28 April 2010
Shan's name hit the headlines in the 'young adult' fiction with the early volumes of his twelve-part vampire series, The Saga of Darren Shan. Combining the gritty reality of a good Anthony Horowitz...
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independent.co.uk | 04 December 2005
[this is a review of the "Lord Loss" Audio Book CD]
Darren Shan's Lord Loss (HarperCollins £14.99, read by Rupert Degas) will open up the pit of hell. This is a very, very scary book - don't let...
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horrorchannel.com | 28 April 2010
The author of the teen series Cirque du Freak, Darren Shan, has started a new series of books called The Demonata. Lord Loss is the first of ten books in the series and is set in a world in...
Read full review: Lord Loss (The Horror Channel USA)
gothicrevue.com | 28 April 2010
This is the beginning of another series for Darren Shan. As you may or may not know, we here at gothicrevue central love Mr. Shan's other series (of the Vampaneze type). Whereas the tales of Darren...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Gothic Review USA)
fantasybookspot.com | 28 April 2010
Grubbs Grady’s world changes forever when he discovers demon’s in his home. That night he learns that demon’s are real and so is magic. Recovering from the demon attack, he finds himself living...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Fantasy Books Spot USA)
The Evening Echo (Ireland) | 28 April 2010
JUST when you thought it was safe to go into the bookshop, he's back! Having brought his Saga of Darren Shan to a blood-curdling end, Limerick's own prince of darkness returns to haunt...
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The Evening Chronicle (UK) | 28 April 2010
GRUBBS Grady is a really awkward boy who accidentally opens the door to hell. Evil spirits have killed his parents and big sister but Grubbs manages to escape. When he tells his story to the...
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epinions.com | 31 October 2005
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After getting into the insanely popular ‘Cirque Du Freak” series by Darren Shan I was dead set on getting my hands on the first book in “The Demonata” series. At the end of ”The Lake of...
Read full review: Lord Loss (Epinions USA)
The Daily Telegraph (UK) | 28 April 2010
[*This is part of a longer review feature of fantasy and horror books. The first book reviewed was "Eldest" by Christopher Paolini. The reviewer, Sarah Crompton, also gave the book to 9 year old...
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Daily Ireland | 28 April 2010
Shan introduces us to a new bad guy and a new good guy. In common with most of Shan's lead males, the lead is not the most well developed of characters, a likeable teen who encounters Lord Loss and...
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Children's Literature (USA) | 28 April 2010
Grubitsch "Grubbs" Grady's life changes in one moment. Grubbs starts out as a normal kid who gets punished for a playing a cruel joke on his sister—he put dead rat guts on her bath-towel. Then,...
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Carousel (UK) | 28 April 2010
It's an ordinary school day for Grubbs Grady. Grubbs! Short for Grubitsch! Perhaps this isn't going to be an ordinary everyday story! His mother appears unexpectedly at school, which, according to...
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The Bulletin (USA) | 28 April 2010
Aside from his morbid imagination and somewhat excessive bent for grossout mischief (such as putting rat guts in his sister's bath towel), Grubbs Grady is a seemingly normal kid. Then his world...
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bookloons.com | 28 April 2010
Just as in his popular Cirque Du Freak series, Darren Shan takes a (more or less) ordinary boy - in this case, young Grubbs Grady - and throws him into a maelstrom of (particularly) gruesome, gory...
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Booklist (USA) | 28 April 2010
Older fans of Shan's gory, gripping Cirque du Freak series will welcome this first book in the Demonata series, which features a similar horrific spin, dark humor, and graphic detail. Grubitsch...
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bellaonline.com | 28 April 2010
On first appearance, Grubitsch “Grubbs” Grady seems like your typical teenager; he rebels against his parents, fights with his sister, and succumbs to peer pressure. But things are a little odd...
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amazon.co.uk | 28 April 2010
I made the mistake of telling my kids (fans of Shan) the plot of this novel on a long boring car journey and it freaked them out so much they had nightmares. This is defintely for teenagers, and...
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allen-park.lib.mi.us | 28 April 2010
Grubbs Grady is your typical teenage boy. He loves garbage dumps where he finds the most awesomely disgusting things and dislikes his older sister who constantly gets him into trouble. He likes...
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