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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Lord Loss (Demonata S.)
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Collins Cirque Du Freak: Abridged (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins Slawter: Complete & Unabridged (Demonata S.)
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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Demon Thief (Demonata S.)
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Collins Vampire Mountain (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins The Trials of Death (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins The Vampire Prince (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins Hunters of the Dusk (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins The Vampire's Assistant: Abridged (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
Readers familiar with <I>The Saga of Darren Shan</I> will enjoy this second instalment on audio cassette. <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I> is read gleefully and yet touchingly by Alan Cumming. Darren is now living with Mr Crepsley, and struggling to be a real vampire, but his squeamishness about drinking human blood is becoming an obstacle to fully embracing the lifestyle. As he is still only half a vampire, and therefore partly a normal teenage boy, his wants and desires are hard to be satisfied by the ageing Mr Crepsley. Meeting Evra the snake boy when he and Mr Crepsley join the Cirque du Freak ensures he has a friend (however peculiar) his own age, as does meeting the more ordinary Sam, who is mesmerised by the Cirque du Freak. <p> Alan Cumming reads the story with sensitivity for Darren's loneliness and new life and yet with some enjoyment of the gruesomeness of drinking blood and bizarreness of some of the characters in the Cirque du Freak. The tale may not make very peaceful bedtime reading, but will definitely keep children with a thirst for shivers and sweats engrossed. The breaks in the readings are sometimes laboured, so that the next chapter feels anticlimactic, but also are timed so that before you realise it, you'll have listened to most of the tale, always wanting to have your suspicions of what happens next confirmed. Darren's adventures, and encounters with a variety of characters (whether part of the Cirque du Freak or not) are particularly enthralling with Cumming's different voices, so that it almost feels as if Mr Crepsley or Mr Tiny are really in the room with you. The ending explores from a very original angle the importance of friendship and such everyday themes as these ensure that it seems likely that any number of seemingly ordinary teenage boys could be part-time vampires. --<I>Olivia Dickinson</I>
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Collins Demon Thief: Complete & Unabridged (Demonata S.)
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Collins Lord Loss: Complete & Unabridged (Demonata S.)
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Collins The Lake of Souls (Saga of Darren Shan)
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Collins Vampire Blood Trilogy
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Collins Lord of the Shadows (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins Killers of the Dawn (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins Cirque Du Freak (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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 and Darren starts experiencing things that no average boy would dream of. At the Freak show he sees a limb-chewing wolf man, a woman who can grow a beard in front of your very eyes, a snake boy and a goat-eating tarantula called Madame Octa. But what about the mysterious people in blue-hooded robes whose faces you never see? And is Mr Crepsley really a vampire?<p>Don't be deceived by the facetious tone of the narrator, this book will have you screaming out in revulsion and horror. Wrap yourself up in your duvets and get prepared to be scared. This is outrageously gruesome: <blockquote>Anyway, that's enough of an introduction. If you're ready, let's begin. If this was a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed. But this is a real story, so I have to begin where it really started ... It started in the toilet.</blockquote> <i>Cirque du Freak</i> is Darren Shan's first novel and the first in a series highlighting Darren's adventures and misadventures. You'll be baying for blood if you miss out.<p>And, remember, it's all true. (Age 10 and over) --<I>Nicola Perry</I>
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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks The Vampire War Trilogy: Hunters of the Dusk, Allies of the Night, Killers of the Dawn (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Cirque Du Freak (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins The Vampire's Assistant: Complete & Unabridged (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
Readers familiar with <I>The Saga of Darren Shan</I> will enjoy this second instalment on audio cassette. <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I> is read gleefully and yet touchingly by Alan Cumming. Darren is now living with Mr Crepsley, and struggling to be a real vampire, but his squeamishness about drinking human blood is becoming an obstacle to fully embracing the lifestyle. As he is still only half a vampire, and therefore partly a normal teenage boy, his wants and desires are hard to be satisfied by the ageing Mr Crepsley. Meeting Evra the snake boy when he and Mr Crepsley join the Cirque du Freak ensures he has a friend (however peculiar) his own age, as does meeting the more ordinary Sam, who is mesmerised by the Cirque du Freak. <p> Alan Cumming reads the story with sensitivity for Darren's loneliness and new life and yet with some enjoyment of the gruesomeness of drinking blood and bizarreness of some of the characters in the Cirque du Freak. The tale may not make very peaceful bedtime reading, but will definitely keep children with a thirst for shivers and sweats engrossed. The breaks in the readings are sometimes laboured, so that the next chapter feels anticlimactic, but also are timed so that before you realise it, you'll have listened to most of the tale, always wanting to have your suspicions of what happens next confirmed. Darren's adventures, and encounters with a variety of characters (whether part of the Cirque du Freak or not) are particularly enthralling with Cumming's different voices, so that it almost feels as if Mr Crepsley or Mr Tiny are really in the room with you. The ending explores from a very original angle the importance of friendship and such everyday themes as these ensure that it seems likely that any number of seemingly ordinary teenage boys could be part-time vampires. --<I>Olivia Dickinson</I>
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Collins Vampire Rites Trilogy
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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Sons of Destiny (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins Cirque Du Freak: Complete & Unabridged (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
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Collins The Vampire's Assistant (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
<I>The Vampire's Assistant</I> is the second instalment in the saga of Darren Shan, which began with <I>Cirque du Freak</I>. Then, Darren made the difficult decision to become a half-vampire to save his best mate Steve Leopard's life. Now, he must leave his friends and family behind as he travels cross-country with the vampire Mr Crepsley and the Cirque du Freak. Early on, Darren dispels the vampire myth in his typically facetious fashion:<blockquote>Cros ses and holy water didn't hurt us. All garlic did was give us bad breath ... A stake through the heart would kill us, of course, but so would a bullet or a knife or electricity ... We were tougher to kill than normal people, but we weren't indestructible. </blockquote>However, despite Darren's seeming flippancy, <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I> is not for the squeamish or faint-hearted. How long can Darren go before he must drink human blood? How safe are Darren's new-found friends? Why don't the mysterious, blue-hooded dwarves speak or cry out in pain? And does their master Mr Des Tiny really feed on little children? No one is safe in this gruesome, macabre tale--more a who's-going-to-do-what than a who-dunnit: <blockquote>And then the red monster was on him. Stanley opened his mouth to scream, but before he could, the monster's hands--claws?--clamped over his mouth. There was a brief struggle, then Stanley was sliding to the floor, unconscious, unseeing, unknowing.</blockquote> Familiar characters include Mr Tall, the wolf-man and Evra, the snake boy, who are more fleshed out in this follow-up. New characters include Darren's new mate Sam and R G (Reggie Veggie), an ecowarrior. If book one whet your appetite, then <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I> will certainly leave you hungry for more. Watch out for the next fang-tastic sequel. <I>--Nicola Perry</I>
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Collins Tunnels of Blood: Complete & Unabridged (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
Coming hot and bloodily on the heels the two opening Darren Shan sagas, <I>Cirque du Freak</I> and <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I>, this third episode in the life of a vampire-to-be is reassuringly gut-wrenching and still as addictive. <p> Shan again makes no bones about his new life as a half-vampire in the shadow of his full-vampire master, Mr Crepsley. It's brutal and gory, but also fascinating and compelling. Darren's life is different from those around him and he's plagued by feelings of rejection. He's fit and energetic, with superb sensory perception--and he's growing stronger every day. Yet, he is tormented by the human life he has left behind. He can't make normal friends and has no family except the strange and unearthly collection of hobos who inhabit his usual home--the touring circus-of-horrors that is the Cirque du Freak.<p> In Tunnels of Blood, Shan and the snake-boy Evra--who seems hell-bent on tracking down a rogue vampire on the loose--visit a nameless city on the coat-tails of Crepsley. Vampire law, such that as is, has been violated and a particularly foul and loathsome creature of the night is killing humans in a distinctly uncivilised way. But the monster has picked Crepsley's home town in which to wreak havoc and he must be stopped. Darren, however, has suspicions about Crepsley's motives and his intervention at a crucial point in the hunt threatens dire consequences for all concerned.<p> Throughout, Shan is debunking myths of the undead by the page-load and then creating a fair few of his own too. Garlic and a fear of the cross is hokum it seems, but Vampire Generals and Vampaneze are fair game. <p> Despite the story being a bit thinner than in the previous two books, it's still inventive and original, with page-turning action and cliffhanging chapters galore. Shan is trying very hard to entertain and he's getting away with it. --<I>John McLay</I>
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Collins Tunnels of Blood (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
Coming hot and bloodily on the heels the two opening Darren Shan sagas, <I>Cirque du Freak</I> and <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I>, this third episode in the life of a vampire-to-be is reassuringly gut-wrenching and still as addictive. <p> Shan again makes no bones about his new life as a half-vampire in the shadow of his full-vampire master, Mr Crepsley. It's brutal and gory, but also fascinating and compelling. Darren's life is different from those around him and he's plagued by feelings of rejection. He's fit and energetic, with superb sensory perception--and he's growing stronger every day. Yet, he is tormented by the human life he has left behind. He can't make normal friends and has no family except the strange and unearthly collection of hobos who inhabit his usual home--the touring circus-of-horrors that is the Cirque du Freak.<p> In Tunnels of Blood, Shan and the snake-boy Evra--who seems hell-bent on tracking down a rogue vampire on the loose--visit a nameless city on the coat-tails of Crepsley. Vampire law, such that as is, has been violated and a particularly foul and loathsome creature of the night is killing humans in a distinctly uncivilised way. But the monster has picked Crepsley's home town in which to wreak havoc and he must be stopped. Darren, however, has suspicions about Crepsley's motives and his intervention at a crucial point in the hunt threatens dire consequences for all concerned.<p> Throughout, Shan is debunking myths of the undead by the page-load and then creating a fair few of his own too. Garlic and a fear of the cross is hokum it seems, but Vampire Generals and Vampaneze are fair game. <p> Despite the story being a bit thinner than in the previous two books, it's still inventive and original, with page-turning action and cliffhanging chapters galore. Shan is trying very hard to entertain and he's getting away with it. --<I>John McLay</I>
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Collins Tunnels of Blood (Saga of Darren Shan S.)
Coming hot and bloodily on the heels the two opening Darren Shan sagas, <I>Cirque du Freak</I> and <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I>, this third episode in the life of a vampire-to-be is reassuringly gut-wrenching and still as addictive. <p> Shan again makes no bones about his new life as a half-vampire in the shadow of his full-vampire master, Mr Crepsley. It's brutal and gory, but also fascinating and compelling. Darren's life is different from those around him and he's plagued by feelings of rejection. He's fit and energetic, with superb sensory perception--and he's growing stronger every day. Yet, he is tormented by the human life he has left behind. He can't make normal friends and has no family except the strange and unearthly collection of hobos who inhabit his usual home--the touring circus-of-horrors that is the Cirque du Freak.<p> In Tunnels of Blood, Shan and the snake-boy Evra--who seems hell-bent on tracking down a rogue vampire on the loose--visit a nameless city on the coat-tails of Crepsley. Vampire law, such that as is, has been violated and a particularly foul and loathsome creature of the night is killing humans in a distinctly uncivilised way. But the monster has picked Crepsley's home town in which to wreak havoc and he must be stopped. Darren, however, has suspicions about Crepsley's motives and his intervention at a crucial point in the hunt threatens dire consequences for all concerned.<p> Throughout, Shan is debunking myths of the undead by the page-load and then creating a fair few of his own too. Garlic and a fear of the cross is hokum it seems, but Vampire Generals and Vampaneze are fair game. <p> Despite the story being a bit thinner than in the previous two books, it's still inventive and original, with page-turning action and cliffhanging chapters galore. Shan is trying very hard to entertain and he's getting away with it. --<I>John McLay</I>
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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Lord Loss (Demonata S.)
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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Demon Thief (Demonata S.)
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Little, Brown Young Readers Cirque Du Freak #7: Hunters of the Dusk: Book 7 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: Saga of Darren Shan (Paperback))
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Little, Brown Young Readers Cirque Du Freak #5: Trials of Death: Book 5 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: Saga of Darren Shan (Paperback))
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Little Brown and Company The Vampire Prince (Cirque Du Freak: Saga of Darren Shan (Paperback))
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Little Brown and Company The Vampire Prince: Book 6 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: Saga of Darren Shan (Paperback))
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Little Brown and Company Allies of the Night: Book 8 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: Saga of Darren Shan (Paperback))
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Little, Brown Cirque Du Freak #3: Tunnels of Blood - Book 3 in the Saga of Darren Shan
Coming hot and bloodily on the heels the two opening Darren Shan sagas, <I>Cirque du Freak</I> and <I>The Vampire's Assistant</I>, this third episode in the life of a vampire-to-be is reassuringly gut-wrenching and still as addictive. <p> Shan again makes no bones about his new life as a half-vampire in the shadow of his full-vampire master, Mr Crepsley. It's brutal and gory, but also fascinating and compelling. Darren's life is different from those around him and he's plagued by feelings of rejection. He's fit and energetic, with superb sensory perception--and he's growing stronger every day. Yet, he is tormented by the human life he has left behind. He can't make normal friends and has no family except the strange and unearthly collection of hobos who inhabit his usual home--the touring circus-of-horrors that is the Cirque du Freak.<p> In Tunnels of Blood, Shan and the snake-boy Evra--who seems hell-bent on tracking down a rogue vampire on the loose--visit a nameless city on the coat-tails of Crepsley. Vampire law, such that as is, has been violated and a particularly foul and loathsome creature of the night is killing humans in a distinctly uncivilised way. But the monster has picked Crepsley's home town in which to wreak havoc and he must be stopped. Darren, however, has suspicions about Crepsley's motives and his intervention at a crucial point in the hunt threatens dire consequences for all concerned.<p> Throughout, Shan is debunking myths of the undead by the page-load and then creating a fair few of his own too. Garlic and a fear of the cross is hokum it seems, but Vampire Generals and Vampaneze are fair game. <p> Despite the story being a bit thinner than in the previous two books, it's still inventive and original, with page-turning action and cliffhanging chapters galore. Shan is trying very hard to entertain and he's getting away with it. --<I>John McLay</I>
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Little, Brown Young Readers Cirque Du Freak #4: Vampire Mountain: Book 4 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: Saga of Darren Shan (Paperback))
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