What's it like re-reading my Cirque Du Freak books as an adult?!?

A fan called Luke Henderson found out last year when he decided to re-read the series more than a decade after he read them as a child. He posted reviews for the first six books, capturing his thoughts and how hie reading of them differed now that he was a grown-up. Here's the link for book 6, and there are links on that page for the other reviews that he wrote: https://medium.com/@lukewhenderson/rereading-cirque-du-freak-as-an-adult-pt-6-the-vampire-prince-80c9dcbb5743

I must say I love it when the books work for adults as well as they work for the children and teenagers who make up the bulk of my audience. While I never target any specific market (which is one of the reasons I've struggled with publishers and booksellers over the years), when I wrote Cirque Du Freak I was trying to write a book that would appeal to adults as much as it did to children. As a child and teenager of the 1980s, there were very few horror/fantasy books written for people my age, so I made the leap to adult horror (Stephen King, Anne Rice) at far too young an age. The books I was reading when I was 12, 13, 14 years of age weren't always appropriate for me -- but damn, they stoked my fires!!!

With Cirque Du Freak, I wanted to write something that WAS age-appropriate for 10, 11 and 12 year olds, but which also had all the darkness and depth of those vampire books for adults - Salem's Lot, Interview With The Vampire - which I read when I should really have been sticking to the likes of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl!! So when the books weave their wonders for readers like Luke who have long left childhood behind them, it gives me a nice little buzz of satisfaction -- more proof that all the publishers who rejected Cirque Du Freak were wrong, and *I* was right!!!! :-) :-) :-)