I wasn't a huge fan of Darren Shan's Saga of Darren Shan (hasn't got much of an ego has he?). I thought Cirque Du Freak was too short and undeveloped and trying too hard. But then i read the first book in the Demonata series, Lord Loss and gained a new opinion of Shan. Lord Loss was packed full o...
This book was a very enjoyable book to read. Although, only half the book depicts the terror of a horrifying zombie invasion, the other half of the book allows you to peer into B's life and realize the struggle she is going through. I liked the complicated relationship between B and her dad, and ...
Zom-b The book “Zom-b” by Shan Darren book is about zombies. I know that most author will Just right about Zombies that just walk around and chew your brain out . This book is like that but has some more interesting detail . This author make a classic zomb...
This review is for all four books. Ok, so having read the twelve books on the Saga of Darren Shan, and having thoroughly enjoyed them, it was time to see where it all began for Darren's would be master and mentor, Larten Crepsley. On the whole I found all four books enjoyable, but the third insta...
První díl na novou ságu od epického spisovatele Darrena Shana, který mimo jiné knihy napsal i jeho vlastní příěh jménem Sága Darrena Shana. V této sáze vypráví příběh upířího mentora Lartena Hroozleyhi, který e známý jako stvořitel Darrena Shana. Spisovatel opět nezklamal a přesvědčil mě, že stál...
The book called Palace of the Damned by Darren Shan was great. This setting was a mystical place filled with vampires and vampeneze. The main character faced it around a person named Larten Creepsley trying to take control of his own life after he doesn't want to be his masters servant anymore.In...
Darren Shan is an alright author. This book is okay for the first 50 pages.This novel is the definition on the well i don't know, i just know that now in days i hate reading i look up stuff on the internet for the book. The main character is horrible i knew from the start i hated the bookI have n...
Audience: ages 12 and upDarren loves spiders and Steve loves monsters so when the best friends get a flyer advertising a "Cirque du Freak" show in their town they cannot resist the temptation to see the production. Little do the boys know that the show will change their lives forever.Cirque du F...
I'm not at all into anything gangster or Mafia, so I wasn't sure how I was going to enjoy this. It starts off as any other gangster novel - young upstart catches the eye of a kingpin, and is given a position in his organisation. But that's where the similarity ends. This is no ordinary city an...
Are you kiddin ´me. I´m not really sure if i should laugh or cry but the ending was hilarious. If you read the cirque du freak series you know what i´m talking about. I was so confused because the last book was so strange and disturbing i kinda felt like this after i had finished the cdf series.....
so i like it...kinda... but things are getting boring here. this is the fourth book and nothing happens except old faces. its like B hadn't left the zom heads squad. there is a weird doctor, a nice soldier whom kind to everyone and badass group of zombies teenager who will save the world. i am go...
Larten and Wester have always interested me. They are vampires yet they act, and surround themselves with humans. They even act so human they sometimes don't even realize that they are vampires. Evidence of this is when Larten is telling a story of when he accidentally woke up a person while feed...
Finished the text book last night, and our lovely librarian had the Manga version as well. So that was today's task. Manga is an interesting medium, because you have to read right to left, and that means you start from the 'end' of the book and read 'backwards' to the 'front'. It's a tricky thing...
I was pleasantly surprised with this series. At first glance I was a bit iffy, but I was quickly sucked into the story. Despite the fact that it's aimed at younger readers, I found it engaging and intriguing. The whole series was well worth reading. The characters were well constructed and the va...
good read amazing This book is brilliant I say it's best so read, ending is shit though
Another enjoyable, readable book from Darren Shan. I struggled a little with this one as it didn't seem as structured as other novels of Shan's, I think Larten wandering around aimlessly didn't help this so sometimes I got the impression this was a filler book where not a lot happened. I thought ...
I think that this book was a surprising book. It was an irony to me that Larten wanted to learn and follow Seba, his master and follow the ways of the vampire's life, joining the Cirque Du Freak and also meeting new friends. However, that was in the first book. In this second book, I was looking ...
I just want to take a moment and thank Darren Shan for the amazing stories he creates. Not only with the Zom-B series, but anything in general. After finishing this instalment I realised how bloody much I love anything he creates. Plus, after I've caught up, well, finished the ones I have of the ...
This was a great book in a great series, but it was not my favorite. The writing was very straight to the point, which is a good thing. I like the author’s style of writing. I don’t want to give anything away, but the series is going even farther into themes of racism, as revealed at the end of t...
This book is a great edition to the Zom-B series. The book continues the pace of the previous books without missing a beat. If you haven't read the series, you should seriously consider to do so. This book shows the resilience of mankind (and the undead) to hold on to humanity against all odds. Z...
The Lake of Souls takes place right after Killers of the Dawn, with Mr. Crepsley dead and Steve's revelation that he is the Lord of the Vampaneze. Darren is unable to cry. He feels numb, but with the help of the bearded lady, Truska, he eventually does so. Mr. Tiny then appears and tells Harkat t...
While death is certain,we do not know who it will claim...I'm back on the reading wagon! I hadn't realised just how long I'd gone without picking up a book, and it's shameful. Hunters of the Dusk makes that feeling worse by being so darn good. I love the kind of mini-trilogies the series contains...
I didn't know what to read next, even though Blood Song was already on my currently reading list, so I decided to rearrange a part of my bookshelf. I noticed book 3 lying around with a couple of other random books. I then had a slight feeling of wanting to continue on with the series. I heard not...
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 a...
4 stars for the grand Slawter!More gore. More Guts. More demons."LIGHTS. CAMERA. SLAWTER!"Warning: Do not read the book if you hate reading about people getting butchered, old and young alike.So... Here we are again. Roughly 25 years after the events of Demon thief(and 1 year after Lord Loss)Thos...
3 stars for the Demonata. Yup. Keep on killing!*cracks knuckle*To put it in a few linesGrubbs Grady loves Reni Gossel.Dervish Grady loves Juni Swan.Nishanth Anchan loves someone else.End of story.This was not what I expected in a Demonata book. 90%- NO GORE!First half is filled with boyfriend, gi...
i love this series and every book is better than the last. Every book has an underdog and this book is no exception. kernel fleck is our underdog. Kernel fleck is known very well around his school to be weird and also a freak. He has also has trouble making friends come to think of it he never ha...
I'm all for reading about DEATH MATCH CHESS, but even that cannot save this book for me. It seems poised to snag whatever parts of the YA demographic that have not been sucked into the Twilight vortex. ("Not interested in reading an epic romance about a sparkly vampire? Try this book about demons...
Bec. The Little One. The one who Lord Loss has shared magic with... The book was so scary and had lots of gore! Bran was a good one :) Run Fast! :D What made me wonder was the theme of the book...Lord Loss didn't know chess then...the gods were Celtic and the year was 5th century AD....Also, the ...
I watched the movie The Vampire’s Assistant years ago. And honestly, I can’t remember much from it besides the bare bones. However I remember finding the idea interesting and when I found the bind-up of the first three books of the series at Boekenfestijn, I instantly grabbed it. The overall idea...
Like the lame How does Cheez-It do it commercial, I’m wondering How does Darren do it—except for the fact that lame and Darren Shan should never be strung together in a sentence. Yes, he’s that good a storyteller. He’s the kind of author that can re-use ideas but turn them into something more ori...
Take a step into the unknown in a spine tingling story for World Book Day from the internationally bestselling Darren Shan. The boys and girls in the graveyard were shouting, but Koyasan no longer heard them. The world had become a wide, grey void. She could hear deep rasping sounds, the breath o...
I lurch up them, growing in strength all the time. I’m still in bad shape, and I sting and ache all over, but coming off the back of my recent lows, I feel like I’ve been given bionic implants. I make it to the roof and pause to assess my options. I can hear the Angels out...
I run into a woman who is wearing a bra and knickers and nothing else. There are curlers in her hair. Looks like the living dead caught her at home when she was getting ready to go out.I strike swiftly at the woman, a flurry of blows to her face and neck. She snarls and tries to hit back. I turn ...
I defy red lights and one-way streets, take bends without braking, challenging the city to blast my wheels from under me and send me crunching to my death. The police are soon after me, sirens wailing. They set up roadblocks that I dodge automatically, brain ticking over mechanically, analyzing t...
"It's like living in Noah's ark," he said. "I try to stay out of the house as much as possible. Mom and Dad don't mind. They think children should be free to express their individuality. As long as I come home for bed at night, they're happy. They don't even care if I miss school every once in a ...
I don’t think I miss anything important, though I have to backtrack a few times when I recall bits that I overlooked. The others listen in silence, their faces lengthening as I reveal the direness of our situation, the belief of the Old Creatures that the universe is doomed. &nb...
They’d terrorized their home territory—no small feat—for three years and now Johnny had decided the time was right to expand west. He was looking for The Cardinal’s green light. Ford Tasso wanted me to meet with him. “Johnny’ll be a little pissed when he sees you,” he said. “He asked for me and h...
Rather than lie low afterwards or flee the city as so many others did, he decided to make paintings of the downfall of London. Like Dr Oystein, he thinks he has been hand-picked by God, except in his case the Almighty only wants him to record images of the mayhem, not put a stop to it. Once Timot...
“Hi. I’m Becky Smith, but everyone calls me B.” “Becky it is,” one of the boys laughs, and jogs across. He sticks out a hand—it’s covered by a glove and bandages. “I’m Mark,” he says as we shake hands. “I wasn’t there when you revitalized. They keep me out of stuff like that. Afraid I’ll react ba...
I don’t want to do this. I can’t think of anything to say. I wish I’d kept my mouth shut.Except Meera’s right. This is unacceptable. I’ve been silent too long. The old Bec wouldn’t have tolerated such disrespectful treatment. I remember when I addressed the men of my village and insisted they let...
Shark roars, leading the break for our only hope of survival. We pound after him, but I see within seconds that we haven’t a snowman in hell’s chance. The werewolves are closer to the helicopter than we are, and they can run faster. Alert to the danger, James starts to tak...
hi I really love your books and ive heard u were in water stones last Thursday but I couldn't come so I couldn't get any off your books so ive been begging my mum to go in water stones and have a look cause my engelish class read curc do freak and we loved it expecially me x p.s carnt wait to read some more x
—evie rooke