Book 12 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Showdown!!! The Hunters must face Steve Leopard, to fight for control of the night. Will Steve emerge victorious and wipe out the vampire clan? Or will the Hunters prevail? An added problem for Darren is that if the vampire triumph, he is destined to become the...
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  • A Bit Of Laurentia

    A Bit Of Laurentia | 13 January 2015

    I recently finished my second read of The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan. I first read these books when I was about 10, so it was interesting to get a fresh perspective on the books 10 years...

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  • Book Blogger

    Book Blogger | 16 October 2014

    Darren Shan, Darren Shan!!! What am I going to do with this new author I have placed in my FAVORITES list??? For years I tried to read all these books but always had something come up but when I...

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  • Ellie Jay Books

    Ellie Jay Books | 03 October 2014

    So this is it. The series dramatic conclusion. There were still lots of questions to answer, and even more questions were created. But man, it ends well.

     

    Book 10 - The Lake of Souls follows...

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  • Big Reporter

    Big Reporter | 24 June 2014

    The Saga of Darren Shan is the first series which was written and published by the well-known author among young horror lovers, Darren Shan. The entire series is completed within twelve books....

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  • Books, Books, Books

    Books, Books, Books | 18 May 2014

    It's always infuriating to see a mediocre book hit the bestsellers' list, and for your favourite series to be massively underrated. One of my favourite series of all time is Darren Shan's vampire...

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  • Jodie Neary

    Jodie Neary | 21 April 2014

    This is the one, as they say, that started it all. This was the series that got me reading. I have a fantastic teacher from primary school to thank for that. He got the whole class into the first...

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  • Whimsically Yours

    Whimsically Yours | 10 January 2014

    Now, I’m a huge vampire fan (?–not sure if that’s the right word). I love vampire lore. It all started with Anne Rice, as it should, and my most recent addition to the vamp book lineup was The...

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  • Waterstones

    Waterstones | 03 June 2013

    The book that made me cry for hours after it ended. I am 24 years old, and for some unexplainable reason, the conclusion of the Darren Shan saga always leaves me sobbing into my pillow for hours....

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  • CINCY Book Review

    CINCY Book Review | 28 May 2013

    This twelve book series written by author Darren Shan, that wrote the Zom-B series and other horror fantasy novels, has continued to stay in my number one spot of my favorite books. The Cirque Du...

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  • Sons of Destiny (Wellington Public Libraries New Zealand)

    wcl.govt.nz | 27 April 2010
    This is the final part of the Saga of Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant. In the previous instalment Darren met again his nemesis, Steve Leonard, and has discovered that Steve's son, Darius, is...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Unknown Australia)

    Unknown (Australia) | 27 April 2010
    [i'm not sure what magazine/newspaper this review comes from. if anyone can help me out, i'd appreciate it!]SAGA CONCLUDES WITH A BITE AT THE ENDTeenage tales of circus freaks, vampires and...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Teens Read Too USA)

    teensreadtoo.com | 06 September 2006
    With this book, we come to the end of the CIRQUE DU FREAK series by Darren Shan, the one we have been waiting for and dreading. Now the Vampire Prince must face his archenemy, Steve Leopard. It is...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Subter UK)

    subter.com | 27 April 2010
    Have you ever had an inkling that a particular book would be really good, but put off reading it for a while? When you finally got around to reading it, did you kick yourself for waiting? I...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Stories from the Web UK)

    Stories from the Web (UK) | 27 April 2010
    Review by Jodie, aged 12 from Falkirk, ScotlandRating: BrilliantWhat did you think of the plot? Could it be improved? I loved the plot I think Darren Shan should write a book about what...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Scvoong USA)

    shvoong.com | 27 April 2010
    WARNING -- THIS REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS!! DO NO READ UNLESS YOU HAVE READ THE BOOKEpic final chapter in this fantastic horror-fantasy series for children. At the close of Book Eleven,...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Paranormal Romance USA)

    paranormalromance.org | 31 January 2009
    This is the 12th and last of the books in the Darren Shan Series of Cirque Du Freak. The author is the main character and this is his story...Vampires vs. Vampaneze. The Vampire Prince, Darren...
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  • Sons of Destiny (My Shelf USA)

    myshelf.com | 06 September 2006
    Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince, must now face his archenemy, Steve Leopard. He will confront a complex and difficult problem - dead if he loses and damned if he wins. Either he or Steve Leopard...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Mouth Shut UK)

    mouthshut.com | 29 November 2004
    I still remember back to two years ago. I had been wandering aimlessly in a bookstore, and suddenly saw the name ’JK Rowling’ written on a book. I examined it further, and found it to be a book...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 October 2006
    Time seemed to collapse... There was a sharp stabbing sensation in my stomach... Steve crowed, "Now I have you! Now you're gonna die!"Dead if he loses - damned if he wins. The time has finally...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Kids reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 27 April 2010
    Darren Shan's life both began and ended on the day he reached into the air and caught a ticket to an underground freak show, the Cirque du Freak. Because of that show --- and because he couldn't...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Kids Bookshelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 27 April 2010
    The War of the Scars has left many dead in its destructive path, but the time has finally come for Darren to face the Lord of the Vampaneze and his long ago friend, Steve Leonard. One of them is...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Herald Sun Australia)

    heraldsun.news.com.au | 27 April 2010
    An awesome journey through horror and fantasy ends with the 12th and final book in the Saga of Darren Shan series. Sons of Destiny takes Darren to a showdown with his enemy to find who will become...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Evening ECHO Ireland)

    Evening ECHO (Ireland) | 27 April 2010
    THIS is the last installment of the brilliant Saga of Darren Shan. It is divided into three parts. Instead of getting bored with the big plot, after a while there were a lot of...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Evening Chronicle Ireland)

    Evening Chronicle (Ireland) | 27 April 2010
    The final book in the saga sees Darren face his best friend Steve Leopard in a fight to the death. Darren discovers that things have changed at home too. Will he survive and become Lord of...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 27 April 2010
    Destiny Is Fulfilled In The Climax of Darren Shan's 'Cirque Du Freak' SeriesProduct Rating: 5.0Pros Lots of plot twists, you finally learn about the true Lord of The Shadows.Cons You will...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Crowgrrl USA)

    crowgrrl.com | 24 September 2006
    Darren Shan’s Sons of Destiny is the final chapter in the Cirque du Freak series. The Cirque du Freak series is one of the most deliciously ghoulish storylines The Crowgrrl has had a chance to...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Children’s Literature USA)

    Children's Literature (USA) | 27 April 2010
    In the twelfth and final book of the "Cirque du Freak" series, Darren Shan must face the final battle between himself and his childhood friend turned archenemy, Steve Leopard. In the War of the...
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  • Sons of Destiny (CA Reviews USA)

    ca-reviews.blogspot.com | 26 November 2006
    WARNING: This review gives away plot points from previous books in the series. You should probably read those books before reading this review.This installment picks up mere moments after the...
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  • Sons of Destiny (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 27 April 2010
    Sons of Destiny is the twelfth - and last - of the Cirque Du Freak series, whose narrator, Darren Shan has evolved from ordinary boy to Vampire Prince fighting for the fate of the world against...
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  • / reviews for Lord of the Shadows
    Book 11 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Darren's going home. Back to where everything started. The town's changed a lot in the years that he's been away -- but then, so has Darren.

    Plagued by nightmares of what the future seems to hold, Darren feels uneasy revisiting the place where he was re-born...
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  • Evening Echo

    Evening Echo | 05 July 2013

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA

     

    Limerick's Darren Shan doesn't leave much to the imagination at the best or worse of times, so the idea of having his bloodthirsty vampire saga presented in...

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  • Lord of the Shadows (Voya USA)

    Voya (USA) | 01 May 2006
    For months, Vampire Prince Darren Shan has been on a mission to kill Steve Leopard, the Vampaneze Lord and Darren's greatest enemy. Unable to shake the knowledge that either he or Steve must rise...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Sunday Times UK)

    timesonline.co.uk | 19 July 2004
    This is the 11th book in the Saga of Darren Shan series. The books are about a boy who is a vampire going on adventures, going into war, travelling the world and loads more. Darren Shan is the...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (School Library Journal USA)

    School Library Journal (USA) | 01 May 2006
    Part-vampire Darren Shan is traveling again with Mr. Tall and his Cirque du Freak in the 11th and penultimate book in the series. When he returns to his hometown, Darren would love to see his...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 May 2006
    "All must fall to the Lord of the Shadows," Steve said softly. "This is my world now, Darren."Darren Shan is going home - full circle. Old enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 01 September 2006
    With the end of the world approaching, there's only one thing Darren Shan can do.He returns to his childhood home.Darren knew that things would change in the time he was away becoming a Vampire...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Kids on the Net UK)

    kidsonthenet.org.uk | 13 May 2006
    ***WARNING -- PLOT SPOILERS!!!!!***Lord of the Shadows was a book that I enjoyed very much. It had an amazing plot with twists and turns that left you wondering. Darren Shan is a half-vampire....
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  • Lord of the Shadows (KidsBookShelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 01 September 2006
    Darren and Harkat are traveling with the Cirque du Freak again, and they're back in Darren's hometown. As they wait for Steve and the Vampaneze to show themselves, Darren meets up with another old...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Flaming Net USA)

    flamingnet.com | 01 September 2006
    Half-vampire Darren Shan is traveling with the Cirque du Freak again. They return to his hometown and he knows he must not visit his family because they think he is dead. However, he talks to a...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Evening Standard UK)

    Evening Standard (UK) | 27 April 2010
    Stephen King for kids … Darren Shan has brought his own brand of vampire mythology into the heads and hearts of thousands of children with his vivid and compelling series The Saga of Darren Shan,...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 17 August 2006
    You're One Step Closer To Knowing The Identity of "The Lord of The Shadows"...Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Some very interesting plot twists, the realization of the true Lord...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Curled Up Kids USA)

    curledupkids.com | 01 May 2006
    What do you get when you mix Cirque De Soleil with Todd Browning’s 1932 cult classic film Freaks? You get Darren Shan’s Cirque Du Freak. Coming off the highly successful tenth entry of the Cirque...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Crowgrrl’s Perch USA)

    crowgrrl.com | 30 July 2006
    Book 11 of Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak series is out! Check out Lord Of The Shadows! The Crowgrrl has just finished reading this nail-biter, and I swear, this storyline keeps getting even more...
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  • Lord of the Shadows (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 27 April 2010
    The tenth in the Cirque Du Freak series, The Lake of Souls, sent Darren and Harkat on a strange quest into a future wasteworld, with puzzles to solve and items to collect. Number eleven, Lord...
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    Book 10 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. It's time for Harkat to learn the truth about who he used to be ...

    To unlock the mysteries of his past, he and Darren must place themselves in the hands of Mr Tiny and leave the world of humanity behind. Can they survive in a place of savage killer animals,...
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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 07 March 2014

    In The Lake of Souls, the tenth book in Darren Shan’s CIRQUE DU FREAK series, we take a little breather after the horrid events at the end of the previous novel, Killers of the Dawn. Darren has...

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  • The Lake of Souls (My Shelf UK)

    myshelf.com | 01 September 2005
    The Lake of Souls is the tenth book in the fast-paced, violent vampire series by Darren Shan. After Book 9, this one moves at a slightly more sedate speed, though the plot still storms along with...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 September 2005
    After a desperate battle to kill the Lord of the Vampaneze in "Killers of the Dawn" Darren and Harkat set off to the Lake of Souls on a mission to uncover Harkat's true identity.As usual, no trek...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 27 April 2010
    Darren Shan has always been sure of his identity, but in this time of war with the vampaneze, he must help a friend who has no memory of who he is or how he got to where he is.Harkat Mulds has...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Kids Book Shelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 27 April 2010
    Still mourning the loss of his friend and mentor, Mr. Crepsley, Darren is finding it difficult to go on or care about life anymore. But Darren and Harkat learn from Mr. Tiny that now is the time...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Gothic Revue USA)

    gothicrevue.com | 27 April 2010
    This, the tenth book in the "tales of Darren Shan" series, is mostly about Harkat and his attempt at "redemption and retrieval of his soul". It ramps up rather nicely, the same action as always is...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 17 September 2005
    Darren & Harkat Search For The Truth While Trolling “The Lake of Souls” Sep 17 '05Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Reinforces my dislike of Desmond Tiny, a must read for Shan...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Borders USA)

    bordersstores.com | 27 April 2010
    [reviewed as "one of the best Young Adult books of 2005"]Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak series is now 10 books strong, and his following just keeps growing. These books combine spine-tingling...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 27 April 2010
    The previous episode in this scorching series, Killers of the Dawn, ended with Darren's despair after Mr. Crepsley was killed and the identity of the Lord of the Vampaneze finally revealed. The...
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  • The Lake of Souls (Alameda Big Read UK)

    galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk | 27 April 2010
    The genre of the book is horror and adventure, it's not scary but more gory. A Little Person and a vampire go on an adventure to find the Lake of Souls because Harkat, the Little Person, is having...
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  • / reviews for Killers of the Dawn
    Book 9 of The Saga Of Darren Shan.

    The hunters have become the hunted. Pursued by human forces, they are now wanted fugitives. Before they can hunt for the Lord of the Vampaneze again, they must first outwit and outpace the mob on the streets of the city. If they survive, they face their longest...
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  • Ellie Jay Books

    Ellie Jay Books | 01 October 2014

    I've now completed the series but due to my laptop being poorly I haven't been able to post in weeks! Anywho - the next three Darren Shan books. My friend told me after I read the first couple...

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  • The Guardian

    The Guardian | 24 May 2014

    This is the ninth book in the Darren Shan Saga. Darren and his crew are on the run followed closely by Vampaneze, police and an angry mob because of the lies Steve has told the police. There...

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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 04 March 2014

    Killers of the Dawn, the ninth of Darren Shan’s CIRQUE DU FREAK books, continues right where Allies of the Night left off. The vampaneze have taken Debbie hostage in the tunnels under the city,...

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  • Killers of the Dawn (Myshelf USA)

    myshelf.com | 01 May 2005
    Darren Shan has been through a lot in this series. He's gone from ordinary teen to Vampire Prince. And he's a hunter of a super evil Vampaneze Lord. It's complicated. The book is extremely fast...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 May 2005
    Just when you think Darren and his allies will come out on top another twist is thrown in.They are out numbered, outsmarted, and desperate, and on the run, pursued by the vampaneze, the police,...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 01 May 2006
    The Vampaneze Lord still eludes Darren Shan, Vancha March, and Larten Crepsley. They know he has followers and minions, people who can't kill them but can seriously cripple their chances of killing...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Kids Book Shelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 01 May 2006
    The ninth book in the Darren Shan series is just as fast-paced, plot twisting, action packed and terrifying as the others. Darren, Mr. Crepsley, Vancha and Harkat have come face to face with the...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Gothic Revue USA)

    gothicrevue.com | 01 May 2006
    Killers of the Dawn is a continuation of a series and as such starts out where the last book, Allies of the Night left off. Again, Darren and his friends are on the run from the vampaneze and are...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 08 August 2005
    The Face of The True Vampaneze Lord Is Finally Revealed In “Killers of The Dawn” Aug 08 '05 (Updated Sep 17 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Great continuation to the series,...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Edge Provincetown USA)

    edgeptown.com | 11 May 2005
    Young Master Darren Shan, half-Vampire and Prince among the so-called Undead, walks once more in the pages of Cirque du Freak, Book 9.In earlier books it was revealed that vampires, far from...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Children’s Literature USA)

    Children's Literature (USA) | 01 May 2006
    This is book 9 in the best-selling "Cirque Du Freak" series, as Darren Shan and his fellow vampires continue their war against the evil race of vampires known as the vampaneze and their human...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Curled Up With A Good Book USA)

    curledupkids.com | 01 May 2006
    Coming off the heels of the action-packed eighth entry of the Cirque Du Freak series, Allies Of The Night, this ninth entry, titled Killers Of The Dawn continues with the fast-paced action of...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Bookmunch UK)

    bookmunch.co.uk | 27 April 2010
    Allies of the Night, instalment 8 of the Saga of Darren Shan finished on one hell of a cliffhanger (with the Vampires trying to escape from an underground cavern and the clutches of the Lord of the...
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  • Killers of the Dawn (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 27 April 2010
    Killers of the Dawn follows Allies of the Night as the third in the Hunters trilogy and ninth in the Cirque Du Freak series starring half-vampire Darren Shan. The three hunters are Vampire...
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  • / reviews for Allies of the Night
    Book 8 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Having failed once to kill the Lord of the Vampaneze, Darren and his allies have wound up back in the town of Mr Crepsley's birth, where history seems to be repeating itself -- bodies have been discovered, drained of blood ...

    But this time there's more than a...
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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 01 March 2014

    In Allies of the Night, the eighth book in Darren Shan’s CIRQUE DU FREAK series, Darren, Mr. Crepsley and Harkat return to Mr. Crepsley’s hometown to investigate the vampaneze activity there....

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  • Allies of the Night (Wigglefish USA)

    wigglefish.com | 01 May 2005
    Darren Shan, Vampire Prince and last hope in the war between the Vampires and their old enemies the Vampaneze, has faced fire, flood, wolf-men, and wild boars. Now his duty takes him into real...
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  • Allies of the Night (The Sunday Business Post Ireland)

    tcm.ie | 08 December 2002
    Darren Shan, in case you haven't been initiated, is a 29-year-old from Limerick whose real name is Darren O'Shaughnessy. He's also a vampire prince about whom eight books have already been written...
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  • Allies of the Night (School Library Journal USA)

    School Library Journal (USA) | 27 April 2010
    Darren Shan, a 21st-century vampire prince, and his friends, Mr. Crepsley and Harkat, are on a quest to stop the Lord of the Vampaneze. When a series of murders takes place in Mr. Crepsley's...
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  • Allies of the Night (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 27 April 2010
    Darren Shan, Vampire Prince and vampaneze killer, faces his worst nightmare yet — school! But homework is the least of Darren's problems. Bodies are piling up. Time is running out. And the past is...
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  • Allies of the Night (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 01 May 2005
    Forget the mad animals that want to trample Darren Shan. Forget fires and life as a Vampire Prince. In the latest installment of Darren's quest to find and kill the Lord of the Vampaneze, he has to...
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  • Allies of the Night (Kids Book Shelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 01 May 2005
    The journey continues for the half Vampire Prince Darren Shan as he, Mr. Crepsley, Vancha March and Harkat Mulds find themselves in the city of Mr. Crepsley's birth, trying to stop the murderous...
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  • Allies of the Night (Horn Book Guide USA)

    hbook.com | 01 May 2005
    Still ostensibly seeking his fated mortal confrontation with the Vampaneze Lord, half-vampire Darren Shan gets distracted: forced by a paper-thin plot device to attend school, he meets an old...
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  • Allies of the Night (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 06 August 2005
    When Darkness Falls, Pray That The “Allies of The Night” Are With You Aug 06 '05 (Updated Aug 08 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Ties up some loose ends from previous books,...
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  • Allies of the Night (Curled Up With A Good Book USA)

    curledupkids.com | 01 May 2006
    Unlikely heroes return in the eighth installment of the bestselling young reader/young adult horror series Cirque Du Freak. In Allies of the Night, the misfit trio of half-vampire Darren Shan,...
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  • Allies of the Night (Bookmunch UK)

    bookmunch.co.uk | 27 April 2010
    Allies of the Night is the eagerly awaited episode 8 of Darren Shan’s massive saga of compelling vampire tales.After a selection of murders Darren, Mr Crepsley and Harkat are compelled to return...
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  • Allies of the Night (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 27 April 2010
    In Allies of the Night, 2nd in the Hunters trilogy, Darren and Larten Crepsley go back to the city they visited in my favorite in the series, Tunnels of Blood. Accompanying them is Darren's...
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  • / reviews for Hunters of the Dusk
    Book 7 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. After 6 years living inside Vampire Mountain, Darren has come to terms with himself and his new life as a leader of the clan. Outside, a war is raging, but Darren is not a part of this war, and it seems like he never will be.

    Until Mr Tiny comes calling! After...
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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 27 February 2014

    Hunters of the Dusk is the seventh book in Darren Shan’s CIRQUE DU FREAK series. Though Shan always does a nice job of quickly and sufficiently recapping the plot, it’d be best not to start here....

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  • Mugglenet.com

    Mugglenet.com | 12 April 2013

    “Vampire War,” the third trilogy within the 12-book “Saga of Darren Shan,” begins with this book. More like the previous “Book 1″ than the first book in the overall series, it does not so much...

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  • Active Anime

    http://www.activeanime.com | 28 February 2011

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA

     

    The latest manga version of the popular book series hits a big turning point for Darren. He’s defeated Kurda and been declared a vampire prince. He’s stayed on...

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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Wigglefish USA)

    wigglefish.com | 27 April 2010
    Six years have passed since Darren Shan, half-vampire assistant to the forbidding Mr. Crepsley, led the defense of Vampire Mountain against the Vampaneze and was elected one of the Vampire Princes....
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Voya USA)

    Voya (USA) | 27 April 2010
    Darren Shan's adventure as a Vampire Prince continues in volume seven of the series. The war that was foretold by Mr. Tiny has begun. The Vampaneze Lord has arisen and is trying to bring about the...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Times Educational Supplement UK)

    Times Educational Supplement (UK) | 27 April 2010
    Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series, now in its seventh volume, is becoming cool and collectable (Collins Children's Books, £3.99 each). The fast-paced adventures of an average bored schoolboy...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (School Library Journal USA)

    School Library Journal (USA) | 27 April 2010
    The young half-vampire Prince is on a quest with his guardian, a Vampire General, and a Little Person (a creature who had once been human and works for the vampires) to defeat the Lord of the...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 May 2004
    Six years have passed since Darren, now a Vampire Prince, was crowned at Vampire mountain after facing the trials of death.Times are unsettled as the vampires and vampaneze wage a war of...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 27 April 2010
    All the vampires knew that this day was coming. The mysterious Desmond Tiny, who is as hated by the vampires as he is revered, made a prophecy regarding the Vampaneze Lord and a great war. The...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Kids Book Shelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 27 April 2010
    "Cirque Du Freak" has been one of the most exciting series I've read in a long time! In book 7, six years have passed for Darren Shan as a Vampire Prince. He and his mentor, Larten Crepsley, have...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 03 August 2005
    The Face of Evil Has Been Seen ... But All Is Not What It Seems... Aug 03 '05 (Updated Sep 17 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros A nice continuation of the series, tons of...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Children’s Literature USA)

    Children's Literature (USA) | 27 April 2010
    Things are really heating up in this novel, the seventh installment in Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak series. Darren Shan—the character shares his name with the author of the series—is a half...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 01 May 2004
    Hunters of the Dusk is the seventh episode in the saga of boy turned half-vampire Darren Shan. In fact it's the first of a Hunters trilogy that continues this fall in Allies of the Night. The...
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  • Hunters of the Dusk (Barnes and Noble USA)

    barnesandnoble.com | 01 May 2004
    The hunt for the Vampaneze Lord is on as Darren and team set out to defeat the creature who threatens to destroy the vampires forever. Chock-full of the suspense that's made Shan's Cirque du Freak...
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  • / reviews for The Vampire Prince
    Book 6 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. A close friend butchered. A shocking secret revealed. The vampire clan under threat of extinction.

    Only one ally of the clan knows the whole truth. Only one humble half-vampire can prevent an all-out catastrophe. But rather than surrendur to a two-faced...
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  • Ellie Jay Books

    Ellie Jay Books | 30 September 2014

    Time for the next 3 books! It's taking me far longer than I would've liked to get through these considering how short they are but oh well. Again there will be plot spoilers. I'm sorry but doing...

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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 26 February 2014

    In the previous book, Trials of Death, author Darren Shan left us on a cliffhanger and I’m pretty sure that most readers will be running out to pick up this book, The Vampire Prince, no matter...

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  • Mugglenet.com

    Mugglenet.com | 08 April 2013

    Book 6 of “The Saga of Darren Shan,” also known in some markets as the “Cirque du Freak” series, begins where the previous book left young half-vampire Darren—in a damp, dark place deep within...

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  • The Vampire Prince (Wigglefish USA)

    wigglefish.com | 27 April 2010
    Darren Shan's adventure at Vampire Mountain continues in this third of a three-part installment in the saga of the young half-vampire.In the last book, Darren was subjected to the Rites of...
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  • The Vampire Prince (Umonhon Library USA)

    Umonhon Library (USA) | 27 April 2010
    The Vampire Prince tells about an act of treachery commited by one of the most respected and trusted in the vampire clan. This is irony at it's best. Irony is an unexpected twist in the story....
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  • The Vampire Prince (School LIbrary Journal USA)

    School Library Journal (USA) | 27 April 2010
    As this sixth volume in the series opens, Darren Shan is surviving a near drowning and struggling to return to Vampire Mountain in order to warn the others of the secret plan to invite the...
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  • The Vampire Prince (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 September 2003

    "I hated myself for what I had done. I wanted to turn and run, get far away and pretend this never happend. I felt cheap, dirty, nasty. I tried consoling myself with the thought that I'd done the...

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  • The Vampire Prince (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 27 April 2010
    Trust authority. Trust tradition. Trust the wisdom of the older vampires. Darren Shan knows he is supposed to follow these lessons, but in his current position, caught in a violent tide coursing...
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  • The Vampire Prince (Kids Bookshelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 27 April 2010
    The saga of Darren Shan continues, but this time the stakes are much higher, and the results are deadly. In book 5 Darren discovered a traitor in the vampire clan, and watched a friend be murdered...
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  • The Vampire Prince (Goldcreek School Australia)

    goldcreek.act.edu.au | 27 April 2010
    The Vampire Prince is the sixth book in The Saga Of Darren Shan written by Darren Shan.The book starts with young Darren being hurtled down Vampire Mountain in the raging waters of the Vampire...
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  • The Vampire Prince (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 01 August 2005
    The Death of One Prince Makes Way For The Appointing of Another .... Aug 01 '05 (Updated Aug 08 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Wow, what an incredible ending - you will...
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  • The Vampire Prince (Children’s Literature USA)

    Children's Literature (USA) | 27 April 2010
    An enthusiastic blurb from J.K. Rowling should give this book, the sixth in Darren Shan's "Saga of Darren Shan" series, a big boost at the bookstores. Frankly, it needs all the help it can get....
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  • The Vampire Prince (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 27 April 2010
    The Vampire Prince concludes a three-part adventure for Darren Shan that began with Vampire Mountain and continued in Trials of Death. Darren was introduced to the community of vampires on...
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  • The Vampire Prince (Barnes and Noble USA)

    barnesandnoble.com | 01 August 2004

    Half vampire Darren Shan is caught between the warring worlds of the Vampires and the Vampireze -- and comes out remarkably transformed, in this sixth spellbinding volume of Cirque du Freak....

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  • / reviews for Trials of Death
    Book 5 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Five Trials -- five chances for Darren Shan to prove himself worthy of being a vampire -- five ways to die!

    But while Darren struggles to complete and survive his perilous Trials, other forces are at work deep within Vampire Mountain. Their goal: to wipe the...
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  • Mrs Jenny Reads

    Mrs Jenny Reads | 18 January 2015

    Pretty harrowing and brutal, this macabre fifth book in the running Cirque du Freak series continues in the vein of all those that came before it with a lot of action, a lot of blood, and a lot of...

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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 25 February 2014

    In Vampire Mountain, the previous book of Darren Shan’s CIRQUE DU FREAK series, Darren was asked to prove himself worthy of being a vampire by surviving a series of trials. If he fails, he dies....

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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 30 January 2014

    THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JUNE 11th, 2007

     

    In my review of Vampire Mountain, I said that I was concerned with the way things were heading, and hoped that the trials Darren would be...

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  • MuggleNet

    Mugglenet | 10 March 2013

    In book 5 of the “Saga of Darren Shan,” a.k.a. “Cirque Du Freak”—or book 2 of the “Vampire Rites” trilogy, which is the second of four trilogies within the same—half-vampire Darren starts to look...

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  • Trials of Death (Wigglefish USA)

    wigglefish.com | 26 April 2010
    "If people ever tell you vampires aren't real -- don't believe them!"The opening line from the fifth book in the Cirque du Freak series is especially appropriate, considering that young Darren...
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  • Trials of Death (Waraxe USA)

    waraxe.us | 26 April 2010
    Darren Shan is once again successful in continuing to build upon the interest already built up in this addictive series. Darren has to pass five trials to prove himself worthy to be a part of the...
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  • Trials of Death (Voya USA)

    barnesandnoble.com | 01 May 2003
    Darren Shan is back for his fifth adventure. Still inside Vampire Mountain for the conclave of vampires, Darren has agreed to face the vampire trials. He must successfully accomplish five trials or...
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  • Trials of Death (School LIbrary Journal USA)

    School LIbrary Journal (USA) | 26 April 2010
    This is the fifth novel in the continuing saga of the youthful half-vampire assistant to Larten Crepsley, a full vampire. Crepsley has brought Darren to Vampire Mountain to undergo the Trials of...
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  • Trials of Death (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 May 2003
    The saga continues........"After four hours had passed since I learned I was going to be judged in the Trials of Initiation. I still didn't know very much about he Trials, but from the gloomy...
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  • Trials of Death (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 26 April 2010
    Fire. Water. Insane boars. If Darren Shan doesn't panic or cheat as he deals with these tests of strength and cunning, and comes out alive, he will gain the respect of the vampire community. If he...
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  • Trials of Death (Kids Bookshelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 26 April 2010
    Darren is now ready to begin the Trials to prove he is worthy of being a vampire. There are five terrible ordeals he must face and pass, and if he fails he must prepare to face the stakes in the...
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  • Trials of Death (Green Man Review USA)

    greenmanreview.com | 01 May 2003
    In Trials of Death, Darren must prove himself worthy of being a half-vampire by facing a series of grueling tests that take place at Vampire Mountain. He comes within an inch of his life several...
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  • Trials of Death (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 30 July 2005
    Darren Shan Learns That Fear Has No Place In The “Trials of Death” Jul 30 '05 (Updated Aug 08 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Starts out a little slow, abrupt...
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  • Trials of Death (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 01 May 2003
    The fourth book of the Cirque Du Freak series, Vampire Mountain, began a three-part adventure, and ended with Darren facing frightening Trials of Initiation, for which the penalty for failure...
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  • Trials of Death (Barnes & Noble USA)

    barnesandnoble.com | 01 May 2003
    The Hall of Flames and Blooded Boars await Darren Shan -- and Cirque du Freak fans -- in this fifth installment of the author's popular vampire series.Now that Darren is at Vampire Mountain, he's...
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  • / reviews for Vampire Mountain
    Book 4 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Six years have passed since Tunnels Of Blood. Darren has settled into life as a vampire's assistant, and feels at home in the Cirque Du Freak. But now he must leave the freak show and his friends behind, to travel to the distant Vampire Mountain with Mr...
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  • Story Eater TaleS

    Story Eater Tales | 28 October 2014

    THIS IS A GOOGLE TRANSLATION OF AN INDONESIAN REVIEW.

     

    Honestly, Vampire Mountain is the book of the Cirque du Freak series that most makes me bored. Have fun, suspense, kehororannya, is...

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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 22 February 2014

    It’s been six years since the events of the previous book, Tunnels of Blood. Darren and Mr. Crepsley have been travelling with the Cirque du Freak, but this is the year that the Vampire Council...

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  • Just In!

    Just In! | 17 May 2011

    The amazing manga retelling of Darren Shan's international best-selling vampire saga, with illustrations by Japanese artist Takahiro Arai. Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley make a long and dangerous...

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  • Vampire Mountain (Wigglefish USA)

    wigglefish.com | 26 April 2010
    It's six years after the hair-raising struggle between Darren, Mr. Crepsely, Evra the Snake Boy, and the mad vampaneze monster Murlough. Life has been peaceful enough, but suddenly Mr. Crepsley...
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  • Vampire Mountain (School LIbrary Journal USA)

    School LIbrary Journal (USA) | 26 April 2010
    Darren Shan, the loquacious vampire's assistant, narrates another blood-and-guts tale. Having tracked a horror-movie-stereotype vampire in their previous adventure, Darren and his master, Larten...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Mrs Mad’s Book-A-Rama UK)

    Mrs Mad's Book-A-Rama (UK) | 26 April 2010
    Mrs Mad's humble opinion 8/10 You are working hard. Well done. What's it about? Darren must face the dangerous trek to Vampire Mountain and face the initiation into the Vampire clan! What...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Kliatt USA)

    Kliatt (USA) | 26 April 2010
    Darren Shan is on another adventure with Mr. Crepsley, but this one will take two books to fulfill. They must journey to Vampire Mountain to present Darren to the Vampire Council; they are both...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Kirkus USA)

    Kirkus (USA) | 26 April 2010
    Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Shan (Tunnels of Blood, not reviewed, etc.) has extruded a fourth volume in his series about an adolescent vampire (also named Darren Shan) traveling with...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Kidzworld USA)

    kidzworld.com | 01 September 2002
    Cirque Du Freak is a series which follows young Darren Shan, a boy who makes a deal with a vampire to save the life of his best friend. There are now eight books in the series and the first two...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 September 2002
    The saga continues........"Pack your bags," said Mr. Crepsley. "We leave for Vampire Mountain tomorrow." With this announcement, Darren worries the day away wondering what will happen when they...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 26 April 2010
    Darren Shan made the biggest sacrifice of his life when, at the age of twelve, he agreed to allow Larten Crepsley to make him into a half-vampire. Eight years after being blooded, the time has...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Kids’ Book Shelf USA)

    Kids' Book Shelf (USA) | 26 April 2010
    Book 4 finds Darren and Mr. Crepsley on yet another journey, this time to Vampire Mountain, where Mr. Crepsley must present Darren to the Vampire Princes and explain his reasons for blooding a...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Green Man Review USA)

    greenmanreview.com | 26 April 2010
    Shan gives a history lesson in Book 4, Vampire Mountain. Darren, Mr. Crepsley, and their vampire friend Gavner Purl face wolves and the vampaneze on their dangerous trek to Vampire Mountain,...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 20 July 2005
    Darren Shan Challenges The Vampire Princes Deep Within The "Vampire Mountain" Jul 20 '05 (Updated Aug 08 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Great continuation of the Shan saga,...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Denbighshire Free Press UK)

    Denbighshire Free Press (UK) | 26 April 2010
    First Person Vampire!At least one member of the Download crew still wakes up in a sweat as the result of nightmares about his creative writing class in school. The teacher was a fearsome old...
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  • Vampire Mountain (CM Magazine Canada)

    umanitoba.ca | 23 May 2003
    The bear lifted its head and bellowed at the sky, then fixed its eyes on me and leered hungrily. Dropping to all fours, it advanced. The wolves leaped at it but it shook them loose as though...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 26 April 2010
    This is the fourth volume in Darren Shan's searingly spooky Cirque Du Freak series, and the first episode of an adventure in three parts. It has the best cover yet, showing a castle on a peak...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Booklist USA)

    Booklist (USA) | 26 April 2010
    Teen half-vampire--and author--Darren Shan returns in the next two installments in the Cirque Du Freak series. In Tunnels, Darren has begun to adjust to his fate, but he remains distrustful of...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Barnes and Noble USA)

    barnesandnoble.com | 01 September 2002
    Darren Shan's spine-tingling Cirque du Freak saga continues with the fourth book, in which the young Darren journeys with Mr. Crepsley and two Little People to the hair-raising vampire lair at...
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  • Vampire Mountain (Achuka UK)

    Achuka (UK) | 24 April 2010
    Slowly but steadily building up a cult following, this series could have benefited from a faster publishing programme. Shan's fans will wish they were on Book 8 or 9 by now. This is Book 4, the...
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  • / reviews for Tunnels of Blood
    Book 3 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Shortly after an old friend's visit, Mr Crepsley leaves the Cirque Du Freak and heads for a city, taking Darren and Evra with him. The boys enjoy their stay in the city. Evra soaks up a lot of TV shows, while Darren catches the eye of pretty young Debbie Hemlock!...
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  • Suz’s Space

    Suz's Space | 26 November 2014

    Finished this yesterday morning and a good thing too as it was due back to the library this week. It’s three books in one and only took me less than a week as it’s fairly compelling reading.

     

    A...

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  • Story Eater Tales

    Story Eater Tales | 27 October 2014

    THIS IS A GOOGLE TRANSLATION OF AN INDONESIAN REVIEW. THE REVIEW IN ITS ORIGINAL LANGUAGE IS INCLUDED FURTHER DOWN.

     

    As far as I read this series, new in this third book I find romance....

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  • Ellie Jay Books

    Ellie Jay Books | 03 September 2014

    As these are such short books I'm going to review them 3 at a time. I've been meaning to read these for a while (one of my friends has been pestering me for years) and I've now been made to...

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  • Markham Reviews

    Markham Reviews | 15 April 2014

    What a great ending to the first trilogy! Tunnels of Blood is darker still, and finally movesg the action out into the wider Vampire society, I can’t fault it. It was nice to see Darren, Evra and...

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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 20 February 2014

    Warning: This is the third book in the CIRQUE DU FREAK series, so this review will contain spoilers for the previous books. You don’t have to read the previous books because author Darren Shan...

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  • Tunnels of Blood (Wigglefish USA)

    wigglefish.com | 01 April 2002
    Darren Shan was a normal kid: rash, reckless, out for a good time — especially if the thrills involved sneaking out at night. Then he went to a performance of the Cirque du Freak, stole a vampire's...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Voya USA)

    VOYA (USA) | 01 April 2002
    Half-vampire Darren Shan returns in another gruesome adventure sure to please readers of the first two books in his series, A Living Nightmare (Little Brown, 2001/VOYA April 2001) and The...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (School Library Journal USA)

    School Library Journal (USA) | 24 April 2010
    Shan will continue to draw "Goosebumps" (Scholastic) graduates with this third installment in the series. Here, he sends his eponymous teenaged protagonist, who is still not quite a full-blooded...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Newcastle Upon Tyne Journal UK)

    Newcastle Upon Tyne Journal (UK) | 24 April 2010
    "My name's Darren Shan. I'm a half-vampire. I used to be human, until I stole a vampire's spider. After that my life changed forever. Mr Crepsley the vampire forced me to become his assistant, and...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (My Shelf USA)

    myshelf.com | 01 April 2002
    Book one of this series introduced Darren Shan, an ordinary boy until he and his friend visited a freak show. To save his friend, Darren agreed to became an assistant to the Vampire, Mr. Crepsley,...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Mrs Mad’s Book-A-Rama UK)

    mrsmad.com | 24 April 2010
    Mrs Mad's humble opinion 9/10 Very good. I am pleased with this. What's it about? Darren Shan the vampire's assistant must face the horror of the tunnels of blood when he finds mass murder in the...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 01 April 2002
    "The smell of BLOOD is sickening. Hundreds of carcasses hang from silver hooks, stiff, shiny with frosty blood. I know they're just animals -- cows, pigs, sheep -- but I keep thinking they're...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 24 April 2010
    As the third CIRQUE DU FREAK chronicle begins, Mr. Crepsley is paid a visit by an old friend, Gavner Purl, a member of the vampire police force. Mr. Crepsley refuses to tell Darren what he and...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Kids Book Shelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 24 April 2010
    The saga continues for young Darren Shan, half-vampire, half-human, in "Tunnels of Blood." Darren is slowly getting used to his new life and beginning to respect the vampire he works as an...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Green Man Review USA)

    Green Man Review (USA) | 24 April 2010
    Tunnels of Blood, Book 3, takes Darren on a new adventure, as he, Mr. Crepsley, and Evra the snake-boy leave the Cirque for the city. We're introduced to another kind of vampire — the vampaneze — a...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Evening Chronicle Ireland)

    Evening Chronicle (Ireland) | 24 April 2010
    Tunnels of Blood is by far the best Darren Shan book in this series. It continues the scary saga of the half-vampire and leads you on to believe that Mr Crepsley is the killer when it's really...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 09 July 2005
    What Evil Lurks In The “Tunnels of Blood”? The Saga of Darren Shan Continues ... Jul 09 '05 (Updated Aug 08 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Very suspenseful, nice...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (CM Magazine Canada)

    CM Magazine (Canada) | 24 April 2010
    "I like your girlfriend, Darren Shan," it said with a giggle and I knew instantly who was down there. "A very tasty dish. Good enough to eat, wouldn't you say? Much tastier looking than your other...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Children’s Literature USA)

    Children's Literature (USA) | 24 April 2010
    My name's Darren Shan. I'm a half-vampire." So begins the third installment in Darren Shan's imaginative "Cirque Du Freak" series. Books one and two related how young Darren becomes the...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 24 April 2010
    What a promising title, even more so than Cirque Du Freak or The Vampire's Assistant, the first two tales in Darren Shan's spooky saga. My eleven-year-old son had already declared this one the...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Amazon USA)

    amazon.com | 01 April 2002
    Following his blood-curdling adventures in A Living Nightmare and The Vampire's Assistant, half-vampire Darren Shan is settling into his day-to-day life at Cirque Du Freak, the traveling freak show...
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  • Tunnels of Blood (Amazon UK)

    amazon.co.uk | 06 November 2000
    Coming hot and bloodily on the heels the two opening Darren Shan sagas, Cirque du Freak and The Vampire's Assistant, this third episode in the life of a vampire-to-be is reassuringly gut-wrenching...
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  • Manga Life

    Manga Life | 27 October 2009

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA ADAPTATION OF TUNNELS OF BLOOD.

     

    Well, good news, bad news. The good news is that this volume of Cirque (coming really soon to theaters in the form of a very...

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  • CBR - Comic Book Resources

    CBR - Comic Book Resources | 15 October 2009

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA ADAPTATION OF TUNNELS OF BLOOD.
     

     

    In the third volume, Darren, his mentor Mr. Crepsley and his friend Evra depart from the circus — which is we learn Crepsley...

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  • / reviews for The Vampire’s Assistant
    Book 2 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Having abandoned his old way of life to unwillingly serve as Mr Crepsley's assistant, Darren must accustom himself to the habits of vampires. But the change is difficult and the loneliness is crushing.

    In an attempt to give Darren a sense of stability, Mr...
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  • Downright Dystopian

    Downright Dystopian | 27 May 2014

    After finishing A Living Nightmare, I instantly starting reading the sequel because I just needed to know what happened. These books are just so short and fast paced and I adore every second of...

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  • Markham Reviews

    Markham Reviews | 15 April 2014

    Even better than Cirque Du Freak. I LOVE this series. The Vampire’s Assistant is darker and more violent than the first, but it’s so intelligently and compellingly written that I’d still be...

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  • Spazticnerd

    Spazticnerd | 03 March 2014

    So for those of you who don’t know, this is book two of the Cirque Du Freak series. This books follows Darren Shan on this first adventure with the vampire who blooded him, Mr. Larten Crespley.

    ...
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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 19 February 2014

    Warning: This is the second book in the CIRQUE DU FREAK series, so this review necessarily contains spoilers for Book 1.

     

    Darren Shan’s life is officially a mess after several monumental...

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  • The vampire Source

    The Vampire Source | 13 August 2013

    When you look up Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak book series, you will find it categorized in either the "children" or "young adult" sections online and in stores. I will admit, I was twelve when I...

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  • Comic Book Resources

    Comic Book resources | 29 March 2011

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA

     

    Cirque du Freak volume 2 by Darren Shan and Takahiro Arai. As volume 2 opens, Darren is starting to realize the true cost of becoming a “half-vampire.” He...

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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Voya USA)

    Voya (USA) | 24 April 2010
    This second installment in the Cirque du Freak saga of Darren Shan picks up soon after Darren has been turned into a half-vampire by his master, Mr. Crepsley. Darren is sworn to a life of servitude...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Voices From The Middle USA)

    Voices From The Middle (USA) | 24 April 2010
    Sequels are a dicey business. Seldom do the second installments live up to the original. That is most certainly not true for the second in the vampire series that began with Cirque Du Freak. Darren...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Times Educational Supplement UK)

    Times Educational Supplement (UK) | 24 April 2010
    In The Vampire's Assistant, the sequel to Cirque du Freak (with more to come), Darren Shan is trapped as a half-vampire. The narrative device of "If I hadn't... maybe things would..." was effective...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (The Sunday Tribune UK)

    The Sunday Tribune (UK) | 24 April 2010
    THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT by Darren Shan is part two of Cirque Du Freak (actually, it's part two of The Saga Of Darren Shan -- darren). Young Darren has now been drawn under the wing of Mr...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Sunday Mercury UK)

    Sunday Mercury (UK) | 24 April 2010
    With Cirque Du Freak, Shan created an instant children's classic to rival the Harry Potter series. Even J.K. Rowling herself professed to be a fan of the young author's spine-tingling tale of...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (School Library Journal USA)

    School Library Journal (USA) | 24 April 2010
    After a breezy two-page introduction that gives the major plot points of Cirque du Freak, readers are plunged back into the world of a young, newly minted half-vampire (a concept that is never...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Mysterious Galaxy USA)

    mystgalaxy.com | 24 April 2010
    Cirque Du Freak starts out when a scout leader is walking home from a scout meeting. He begins to hear twigs snap around him. Soon there was a vampire and a young boy. The young boy breathed on his...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (My Shelf USA)

    myshelf.com | 01 September 2001
    The Vampire's Assistant is the frightening sequel to "Cirque Du Freak - The Saga of Darren Shan."Darren is learning to cope with his new identity as a half vampire. He is lonely and misses his...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Mrs Mad’s Book-A-Rama UK)

    Mrs Mad's Book-A-Rama | 24 April 2010
    Mrs Mad's humble opinion 9/10 Very good. I am pleased with this. What's it about? Darren's new life starts in the Cirque du Freak, he makes friends with a Snake Boy and two ordinary humans, but he...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Kirkus Reviews USA)

    Kirkus Reviews (USA) | 24 April 2010
    The sequel to Shan's successful horror debut is another guilty pleasure. Shan, the author/narrator of this putative true account, is now a "half-vampire" and the assistant to the well-meaning...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    Kids' Turn Central (USA) | 24 April 2010
    "Suddenly my days as a human were over. My nights as a vampire's assistant had begun......"In book one of the series, A Living Nightmare, young Darren leaves the human world with Mr. Crepsley, a...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Kids Bookshelf USA)

    Kids Bookshelf (USA) | 24 April 2010
    The second book in the thrilling Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan takes us further into Darren's troubles and what it's like to be a vampire. Darren has become Crepsley's assistant and is...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (GWN Online USA)

    GWN Online (USA) | 24 April 2010
    The Vampire’s Assistant, the sequel to Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak, will get your heart pounding and your blood pumping. Nothing can prepare you for what Darren must face this time around. With...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Green Man Review USA)

    greenmanreview.com | 24 April 2010
    Darren is a reluctant half-vampire — though he has resigned himself to his new role — and finds drinking the blood of humans to be very distasteful and unethical. But of course, he needs to in...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (The Good Book Guide UK)

    thegoodbookguide.com | 24 April 2010
    'We're masters of the macabre ...agents of mutations. Lords of the surreal.' THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 2 Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque du...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (The Funday Times UK)

    The Funday Times (UK) | 24 April 2010
    * * * * * (5 stars)If you thought Cirque Du Freak was terrifying, prepare yourself for The Vampire's Assistant. This spectacular second adventure is darker, gorier and better, as Darren comes to...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (The Evening Herald Ireland)

    The Evening Herald (Ireland) | 24 April 2010
    The Darren Shan saga will never outsell Harry Potter, but the Limerick writer provides macabre thrills aplenty here for younger readers. The Vampire's Assistant takes up where Cirque Du Freak left...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 06 July 2005
    Trial By Fire, Initiation By Blood. The Birth of “The Vampire’s Assistant” Jul 06 '05 (Updated Aug 08 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros One of the best in the series, carries...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (CM Magazine Canada)

    umanitoba.ca | 23 May 2003
    I was buried alive and then, in the dead of night, with no one around, he dug me up and we took off together. My days as a human were over. My nights as a vampire's assistant had...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Children’s Literature USA)

    Children's Literature (USA) | 24 April 2010
    In this horror novel, the author and protagonist share the same name—Darren Shan. With that crafty twist, the action gets underway fast and furiously. Young Darren is a half-vampire, torn between...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 24 April 2010
    I tried to hide The Vampire's Assistant from my two sons when it arrived, but failed. My eleven year old, a most reluctant reader, whose only previous literary interest has been comic books like...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Booklist USA)

    Booklist (USA) | 24 April 2010
    This sequel to the fast-paced Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare finds Darren Shan in difficult circumstances. Vampire Larten Crepsley has begun the process of turning Darren into a vampire, but...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (The Big Issue Ireland)

    The Big Issue (Ireland) | 24 April 2010
    This is the awaited sequel to Cirque Du Freak, in which Darren is turned into a half vampire. Darren struggles with his new identity and is also desperately trying to resist the temptation to...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Barnes and Noble USA)

    barnesandnoble.com | 01 September 2001
    Darren Shan continues the saga of a teenage boy who gets unwittingly drawn into a world of vampires, werewolves, and other freaky creatures with this second installment in his innovative Cirque Du...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Amazon USA)

    amazon.com | 01 September 2001
    What if you were an unwilling vampire? You needed to drink human blood to stay alive, but you weren't some horror-flick villain; you were you, born human--a nice person, even. Thus is the dilemma...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant Audio CD (Amazon UK)

    amazon.co.uk | 24 April 2010
    Readers familiar with The Saga of Darren Shan will enjoy this second instalment on audio cassette. The Vampire's Assistant is read gleefully and yet touchingly by Alan Cumming. Darren is now living...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Amazon UK)

    amazon.co.uk | 30 May 2000
    The Vampire's Assistant is the second instalment in the saga of Darren Shan, which began with Cirque du Freak. Then, Darren made the difficult decision to become a half-vampire to save his best...
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  • The Vampire’s Assistant (Achuka UK)

    Achuka (UK) | 24 April 2010
    On the back of some imaginative and energetic promotion (the launch was held well in advance of publication), Cirque du Freak sold over 10,000 copies in its first month. However, I have already...
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  • CBR - Comic Book Resources

    CBR - Comic Book Resources | 02 August 2009

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA ADAPTATION OF THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT.

     

    Cirque du Freak volume 2 by Darren Shan and Takahiro Arai. As volume 2 opens, Darren is starting to realize the true...

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  • Manga Recon

    Manga Recon | 27 July 2009

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA ADAPTATION OF THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT.

     

    Well, so much for a grand adventure with a master and his apprentice taking on the wild. When Mr. Crepsley reazlizes...

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  • / reviews for Cirque Du Freak
    Darren Shan's an ordinary schoolboy, until he and his best friend Steve get tickets to the Cirque Du Freak, a bizarre freak show featuring such arcane performers as Hans Hands, Gertha Teeth, the Wolf Man and Rhamus Twobellies. In the midst of the ghoulish excitement, true terror raises its head...
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  • Tammie Painter

    Tammie Painter | 24 January 2015

    The other day I found myself in a distressing situation: I had no books to listen to. I know! The horror! I had just finished listening to A Storm of Swords (aka Game of Thrones Book #3) and it...

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  • Lesedelfin

    Lesedelfin | 05 November 2014

    THIS IS A GOOGLE TRANSLATION OF A GERMAN REVIEW.

    "Welcome to the world of the Vampires" is volume one of the Cirque du Freak series by Darren Shan. It comprises a total of three story about the...

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  • The Picky Pages Project

    The Picky Pages Project | 03 November 2014

    I’ve wanted to read this book ever since I saw the movie when it came out, and I can’t wait to see where this story will take me in the rest of the series. A funny thing happened once I read the...

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  • Downright Dystopian

    Downright Dystopian | 05 May 2014

    I watched the movie for this series a few months ago, so I decided it's time I give this series a read. The movie is based off of the first three books, which is pretty cool.

     

    Darren is just...

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  • Markham Reviews

    Markham Reviews | 15 April 2014

    I’ve been getting hooked on Darren Shan via his ZOM-B series, and have come to the Vampire novels really late in the day, but what a treat!

     

    I read Cirque du Freak in one sitting and adored...

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  • Ice Queen’s Bookshelf

    Ice Queen's Bookshelf | 14 April 2014

    Ok so this book is not as great as I thought it would be, it is pretty slow, but maybe that's just because it is the first book in a serie of 12 or maybe because I have seen the movie before...

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  • Fantasy Literature

    Fantasy Literature | 14 February 2014

    A Living Nightmare is a horror novel for older children and young teens (I’d say ages 10-15 are probably the target audience) and it’s pretty effective. As an adult, I found it scary and it even...

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  • Growing Wings

    Growing Wings | 05 February 2014

    I ended up getting this book on Kobo before I went to Italy in case I couldn’t sleep in the night and wanted to read, turns out I got through about five chapters while I was out there and then...

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  • Edith Kleberg Library

    Edith Kleberg Library | 09 January 2014

    Vampires, vampires, and even more vampires! This enjoyable and imaginative story has so many twists and turns, you’ll be on the edge of your seat for the entire book. This first person narrative...

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  • Zoe Markham

    Zoe Markham | 12 November 2013

    've been getting hooked on Darren Shan via his ZOM-B series, and have come to the Vampire novels really late in the day, but what a treat!

     

     

    I read Cirque du Freak in one sitting this...

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  • Let Us Nerd

    Let Us Nerd | 16 October 2013

    There is a moment in the first book of Irish author Darren Shan’s first Cirque Du Freak novel, A Living Nightmare, that really, really scared me. Surprising given that the book is aimed towards a...

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  • The Vampire Source

    The Vampire Source | 13 August 2013

    When you look up Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak book series, you will find it categorized in either the "children" or "young adult" sections online and in stores. I will admit, I was twelve when I...

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  • The Guardian

    The Guardian | 25 July 2013

    Darren Shan is an ordinary boy and when his friend finds a leaflet for Cirque Du Freak (The Circus Of Freaks), a banned freak-show, they all decide to go. But when they find out that they can...

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  • The Reader Of Books

    The Reader Of Books | 10 March 2013

    One of the lovely things about teaching very small groups is that the students are able to choose from many different books to read during lessons. Having so far read War Horse and Mr Stink my...

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  • YA Bookmark

    YA Bookmark | 14 January 2013

    The Saga of Darren Shan is one of those series that you hear about from everyone. I've heard so much about it that I decided I needed to give it a shot and I was pleasantly surprised. I didn't...

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  • The Guardian

    The Guardian | 06 December 2011

    Darren Shan is an ordinary boy who lives an ordinary life. But this all changes when he takes a trip to the Cirque Du Freak with his best mate Steve. They have a great time until Steve points out...

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  • The Fandom Post - Manga review

    The Fandom Post | 20 July 2011

    Yen turns in another quality release with the first volume Cirque du Freak. The cover is printed to look black and textured like leather, with the Cirque du Freak novel logo in the center. Above...

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  • The Star Online

    The Star Online | 29 March 2011

    ***THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA***

     

    USUALLY I do not have high expectations for adaptations – they are often bland and colourless, and fail to capture the charm and spirit of the original...

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  • Books4Hearts

    Books4Hearts | 12 January 2011

    Darren Shan is your average boy (I imagine around 11 or 12, it never says) who likes being with his friends, playing soccer, and messing with creepy animals like big furry spiders. His life is a...

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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (Tiamat’s Manga Review USA)

    tiamatsreviews.com | 25 May 2009
    This series is one I was least looking forward to, in fact it’s on my shit list. I read the first two novels of the series some time ago and was not Impressed by it. So, the manga version was not...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (Teens Read Too USA)

    goodreads.com | 24 April 2010
    Relive the first novel in the most action-packed, fast-paced thriller of a series ever to rule the human and vampire world with this newly published CIRQUE DU FREAK manga.The story surrounds...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (School Library Journal USA)

    schoollibraryjournal.com | 13 August 2009
    Okay, I confess! There are some popular teen fiction series that I have not read. Shocking, but true. Many times it's not that I've been avoiding them because I don't want to read them, but more...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (Manga Recon USA)

    popcultureshock.com | 28 May 2009
    Cirque du Freak is an excellent offering from Yen Press. Takahiro Arai’s strange-but-lovely character designs and a second half that rushes forward at a breakneck pace make Darren Shan’s tale a...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (Kuri-ousity USA)

    kuri-ousity.com | 14 July 2009
    While I make a habit not to judge a book by its cover, it’s still more often than not a deciding factor in the order of my ever-growing stack of books to read. In the case of Cirque Du Freak, the...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (Graphic Novel Reporter USA)

    graphicnovelreporter.com | 24 April 2010
    Cirque du Freak is a manga starring Darren Shan based on a novel of the same name written by Darren Shan. That may sound confusing, but it’s rather simple, actually. Shan (the real one, although...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (Comic Mix USA)

    comicmix.com | 15 May 2009
    Some people stay in the same place their entire lives: joining the family business, marrying their childhood sweethearts, growing old in the bosom of their loved ones underneath the spreading...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (CBR USA)

    comicbookresources.com | 04 June 2009
    Cirque du Freak — adapted from the young adult novels by Darren Shaw and illustrated by Takahiro Arai — is an engaging story about two young boys whose lives are forever changed by their visit to a...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (BSC Review USA)

    bscreview.com | 01 July 2009
    “My favorite things in the world are spiders!”Spiders give me the chills. I have no idea how or why I read past the beginning of either the original book or the manga edition of this now...
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  • Cirque du Freak Manga (About.com USA)

    about.com (USA) | 24 April 2010
    Darren and Steve are best friends who share a fascination with monsters. Then a visit to an unusual circus forces them to make heart-wrenching choices that change their lives in strange and...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Rebecca’s Reads USA)

    rebeccasreads.com | 24 April 2010
    Cirque Du Freak is the wacky, chilling tale of vampires, spiders, & friendship. Author Darren Shan narrates this story of ordinary boys' lives until the day one of his friends brings a flyer to...
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  • Cirque du Freak (The Observer UK)

    guardian.co.uk | 22 October 2000

    This is a horror story that will very pleasurably curdle the blood of nine to 13-year-olds. The narrator of the story mysteriously has the same name as the author, but says: 'Everything's true in...

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  • Cirque du Freak (Nancy Keane’s Book Talks USA)

    nancykeane.com | 24 April 2010
    Ever want to run faster than a deer, play soccer better than a pro, have broken bones mend themselves in a few hours, and meet interesting and amazing people and things while traveling across the...
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  • Cirque du Freak (My Shelf USA)

    myshelf.com | 24 April 2010
    This book is reminiscent of Richard Laymon's Traveling Vampire Show, but written for a younger audience with a non-evil vampire monster, compelling characters, and a hook at the end of each...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Mrs Mad’s Book-a-Rama UK)

    mrsmad.com | 01 January 2000
    Mrs Mad's humble opinion 9/10 Very good. I am pleased with this. What's it about? A teenager whose life is changed forever when he becomes involved with a freak show, an enormous spider and a...
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  • Cirque du Freak (MEGA In The Times UK)

    MEGA [In The Times] (UK) | 24 April 2010
    Harry Potter author JK Rowling rates this, and book recommendations don't come any better! Forget trapeze artists, this Cirque has Darren and Steve gawping at the bearded lady, snake-boy and...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Manchester Evening News UK)

    Manchester Evening News (UK) | 24 April 2010
    When Cirque Du Freak came out last year, hearts skipped a beat all over the country. Vampire novels don't come much scarier than this, especially since it was told from the spine-tingling...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Mail on Sunday UK)

    Mail on Sunday (UK) | 24 April 2010
    The author is the central character in this brilliant Gothic fantasy. In search of thrills, Darren and his friend Steve go to a freak show. What happens next is not for the squeamish. To save...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Locus USA)

    Locus (USA) | 24 April 2010
    Darren Shan is the young narrator of this young-adult dark fantasy novel, first in "The Saga of Darren Shan"; just to add a layer of complexity, Darren states in his introduction that his name...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Kids’ Turn Central USA)

    kidsturncentral.com | 24 April 2010
    The freak show was all I could think about last night. I tried forgetting it, but couldn't, not even when I was watching my favorite TV shows. It sounded so weird: a snake-boy, a wolf-man, a...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Kids Reads USA)

    kidsreads.com | 24 April 2010
    If you heard that an old-fashioned "freak show" were coming to your town, showing in an old theater the middle of the night, would you be brave enough to go?And if when you got there you saw the...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Kids Book Shelf USA)

    kidsbookshelf.com | 24 April 2010
    When the Cirque Du Freak (Circus of Freaks) comes to town Darren and his friend Steve will do anything to go. But something happens at the show that has Darren a little freaked out, and it only...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Island Packet USA)

    kids.islandpacket.com | 24 April 2010
    Not a lot of new books enjoy the buzz surrounding "Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare" ($15.95, Little Brown & Co.). Warner Bros. is making it into a movie, more books are planned in the series,...
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  • Cirque du Freak (The Examiner Ireland)

    examiner.ie | 12 May 2000
    Darren Shan is an ordinary boy with an obsession with spiders who’s also considered to be a soccer genius in his school. But then Darren’s best friend Steve gets two tickets for Cirque du Freak....
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  • Cirque du Freak (The Independent UK)

    THE INDEPENDENT | 24 April 2010
    Darren Shan is undoubtedly a literary find for children. Still in his twenties, he has produced a genuinely original story that combines near-horror with mainly good-humoured, everyday reality....
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  • Cirque du Freak (Greenman Review UK)

    greenmanreview.com | 24 April 2010
    I have a twelve-year old daughter who is seriously into fantasy novels. She reads everything she can by Jane Yolen, and has recently discovered Garth Nix and Nancy Farmer. Given her interest in...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Funday Times UK)

    Funday Times | 24 April 2010
    * * * * * (5 stars)This is the first book in the Darren Shan saga, and what a beginning it is! Darren visits a mysterious freak show that leads him on a spiralling journey into a dark world of...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Feo Amante USA)

    feoamante.com | 24 April 2010
    CIRQUE Du FREAK the first book in a series of dozens by Darren Shan reminded me of what it was like to be a kid again first getting interested in horror and stories of a macabre design. The...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Fantasy Freaks Forum USA)

    fantasyfreaks.org | 24 April 2010
    The World Somewhere on earth (probably Ireland) in what looks like modern times. A date is not specifically mention, nor a country, and the names used are ‘false’.The Characters Young Darren...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Epinions USA)

    epinions.com | 05 July 2005
    The Blooding of Darren Shan: Welcome To “The Cirque Du Freak” Jul 05 '05 (Updated Sep 17 '05)Author's Product Rating Product Rating: 5.0Pros Good introduction to the series, great read for...
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  • Cirque du Freak (DAILY TELEGRAPH UK)

    DAILY TELEGRAPH UK | 23 April 2010

    [...] slightly younger brothers and sisters might be drawn to Cirque Du Freak. It is a fevered tale of circus freaks, killer spiders and vampires, the author's name being that of the narrator,...

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  • Cirque du Freak (Crowgrll’s Perch USA)

    crowgrrl.com | 01 February 2005
    Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare was one of the most deliciously macabre books The Crowgrrl has had a chance to sink my fangs into! The first in a collection of vampiric...
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  • Cirque du Freak (CM Magazine Canada)

    CM Magazine Canada | 23 April 2010
    It was a flyer, an advertising pamphlet for some sort of traveling circus. There was a picture of a wolf's head at the top. The wolf had its mouth open and saliva was dripping from its teeth. At...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Children’s Literature USA)

    Children's Literature USA | 23 April 2010
    Wasting no time in setting a tone of spine-tingling horror, Darren Shan tells his readers right at the beginning, "This is a true story." Darren and his best friend, Steve, secretly buy tickets...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Books for Keeps UK)

    Books for Keeps | 23 April 2010
    The first title of "The Saga Of Darren Shan" (author and the "ordinary schoolboy" main character), this novel has some grand horrors, most spectacularly in the Circus itself, and it includes...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Bookloons USA)

    bookloons.com | 23 April 2010
    First the cover intrigues with its R. L. Stine look and 'Compelling' recommendation from J. K. Rowling. Then Darren Shan lures the reader carefully into his 'living nightmare' and builds up the...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Booklist USA)

    Booklist | 23 April 2010
    When Cirque Du Freak comes to town, Darren and his friends are obsessed with seeing the acts, which include a performing spider; spiders are a particular fascination of Darren's. It is a...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Bella Online USA)

    bellaonline.com | 23 April 2010
    This has been one of the most challenging books for me to review for two reasons: First, I hate horror, especially vampire stories, and most especially stories that contain spiders. Secondly, once...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Barnes and Noble USA)

    Barnesandnoble.com | 23 April 2010
    "I loved being scared when I was little." Those are the words of Darren Shan, the young, adventurous narrator and author of Cirque Du Freak, and I understand him very well. Just like him, I grew up...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Amazon USA)

    Amazon.Com (USA) | 23 April 2010
    Anyone who loves the humorous but hair-raising horror in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series will devour British author Darren Shan's first novel with equal zeal. Some books are born with a surrounding...
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  • Cirque du Freak (Amazon UK)

    Amazon UK | 23 April 2010
    Darren Shan seems like your average boy--he likes playing football with his mates, passing notes in class and loves spiders. Then, one day, his best mate Steve gets tickets for a banned freak show...
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  • Cirque du Freak (About.com USA)

    About.Com (USA) | 23 April 2010

    Darren Shan (yes, the author named his main character after himself) is just an ordinary boy who enjoys hanging out with his three best friends. One day they stumble across an invitation to visit...

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  • Room On The Shelf

    Room On The Shelf | 05 April 2010

    Darren Shan and his friends are just looking for a fun adventure, a forbidden circus held in the dead of night. But when Darren decides to steal a vampire's pet, he discovers the consequences...

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  • Manga Recon

    Manga Recon | 28 May 2009

    THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA ADAPTATION OF CIRQUE DU FREAK.

     

    Cirque du Freak is an excellent offering from Yen Press. Takahiro Arai’s strange-but-lovely character designs and a second half...

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