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More Delight
More Delight | 12 January 2015THIS IS A GOOGLE TRANSLATE OF A DUTCH REVIEW
'Hell's horizon of Darren Shan is the second part in' The City 'trilogy. Part 1 was about Capac Raimi and in this part it is rare. That's just...
The Potted Plot
The Potted Plot | 01 August 2011Well, I have to say I am very satisfied! Darren Shan’s City Trilogy is an amazing three-book ride I highly recommend! Notwithstanding my error in reading “City of Snakes” before “Hell’s...
School Library Journal
School Library Journal | 01 June 2011The companion to The Procession of the Dead (2010) is set in the same strange city peopled with gangsters, villains, and blind Incan priests and ruled over by the enigmatic Cardinal. The action...
Birth Of A New Witch
Birth Of A new Witch | 22 April 2011I’m so, SO glad that I was able to get my hands on the ARC for this. I really loved the first book in this series, “City of the Dead”, and it’s refreshing to see Shan’s style take a grittier turn...
Birth Of A New Witch
Birth Of A new Witch | 22 February 2011☆:4/5: Shan keeps it real with more adventures in his “City” series.
Review: I’m so, SO glad that I was able to get my hands on the ARC for this. I really loved the first book in this...
Fantasy Book Critic
Fantasy Book Critic | 10 March 2011Hell’s Horizon begins a bit differently than its predecessor as a murder occurs and we get to see who had a hand in it. We are then introduced to Al Jeery who is a lowly soldier in the Cardinal’s...
Dan’s Journal
Dan's Journal | 18 January 2011The Cardinal owns the City and Al is one of his guards. When assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman, Al finds it is his girlfriend Nic. Determined to get the truth, Al finds that...
Book Reporter
Book Reporter | 15 January 2011With the release of the first installment of The City series, adult readers have been inaugurated into Darren Shan's peculiar, dark sense of humor. This bestselling author has a talent for...
Mrs Nelson’s Toy And Book Shop
Mrs Nelson's Toy And Book Shop | 13 January 2011Darren Shan's adult series, The City, makes his Cirque du Freak books look like bedtime stories! His second - and newest - installment, Hell's Horizon, is terrifying and gory (in the best way...
Mrs Nelson’s Blog
Mrs Nelson's Blog | 13 January 2011Darren Shan's adult series, The City, makes his Cirque du Freak books look like bedtime stories! His second - and newest - installment, Hell's Horizon, is terrifying and gory (in the best way...
University City Review
University City Review | 12 January 2011Darren Shan returns to the city ruled by a mob figure, the Cardinal. It takes place at the same time as his previous tale about the Cardinal’s invented, though quite real, people in Procession of...
SFRevu
SFRevu | 05 January 2011The Cardinal rules The City like a deity as he insures the disappearances of sundry people who don't just vanish; they also evaporate from the mind like a shaken Etchosketch.
His Party...
The Review Broads
The Review Broads | 05 January 2011Second in the City trilogy, preceded by NY Times bestseller “Procession of The Dead,” this January release pursues its characters with a vengeance. Al Jeery guards the Cardinal, a person of great...
A Musing Reviews
A Musing Reviews | 05 January 2011This book starts out questionable which should have clued me in. Naked woman nearly dead on bed in a gang-controlled hotel. Not quite dead so maid finishes her off.
The protagonist is Al...
Fantasy Literature
Fantasy Literature | 01 January 2011Darren Shan’s Hell’s Horizon is a weird sequel — if you think it’s weird to completely ignore the hero of the first novel in a trilogy. After describing the mysterious and mystical rise of Capac...
Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews | 01 January 2011Second installment in Shan's fantasy urban noir series (Procession of the Dead, 2010) set in an unnamed city ruled by fearsome gangster The Cardinal.
Reformed alcoholic Al Jeery is a loyal...
Booklist
Booklist | 28 December 2010Shan’s second book about the City takes place during roughly the same time period as the first (Procession of the Dead, 2010) but features many new characters, only tying together events from...
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly | 13 December 2010Written before Darren O'Shaughnessy became a bestselling young adult author as Darren Shan, this gory companion to June 2010's Procession of the Dead is a twisting, paranormal gangster mystery....
Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston | 06 December 2010Hell’s Horizon by Darren Shan is an ingenious thriller that will keep you turning the pages long after nightfall. Shan creates a compelling dystopian world populated with richly imagined...
Genre Go Round Reviews
Genre Go Round Reviews | 13 November 2010The City is ruled by crime boss the Cardinal. Al "Algiers" Jeery works for the head mobster as a personal guard at Party Central. When Al’s new girlfriend Nic Hornyak is murdered in a hotel owned...
Falcata Times
Falcata Times | 13 May 2010When people thought that they’d had a real ride of a journey with the first novel in this series by Darren, they’re not going to be prepared for the sheer energy as well as action exuded within....
Hell’s Horizon (The Sun UK)
The Sun (UK) | 26 March 2010Al is a member of The Cardinal’s mob of gangsters and has always carried out his job without question. But that’s all set to change when he is told to investigate a gruesome murder that means his...
Hell’s Horizon (SFX USA)
SFX (USA) | 01 May 2009Hell’s Horizon (Back To Books USA)
back-to-books.blogspot.com | 05 May 2009Hell’s Horizon (Good Reads USA)
goodreads.com | 14 July 2009Hell’s Horizon (Booktopia Australia)
booktopia.com.au | 01 May 2009Hell’s Horizon (Samuel’s Reading Chair USA)
samuelsreadingchair.blogspot.com | 27 September 2009Hell’s Horizon (Science Fiction Chronicle USA)
Science Fiction Chronicle (USA) | 01 September 2000The sequel to Ayuamarca is also set in an alternate dimension where elements of the Incan civilization emigrated to escape the invaders from Europe. In their own pocket universe, they have...
Hell’s Horizon (Vector USA)
Vector (USA) | 01 July 2000This novel follows Ayuamarca, Book One in the author’s ‘The City’ sequence [reviewed by John Newsinger in Vector 207]. I haven’t read the preceding volume but assume from the series’ subtitle...
Hell’s Horizon (Starlog USA)
Starlog (USA) | 01 June 2000An utterly fascinating and dark sequel to the equally compelling Ayuamarca, in which Darren O’Shaughnessy demonstrates the same quirky, imaginative style which made his first book in the sequence...