• BookReporter.com

    BookReporter.com | 04 June 2011

    With The City, Darren Shan seems to have filled a very particular niche. This is a dark series but well done, equal parts mystery and horror, casting a host of villains and really no traditional...

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  • Boom Tron

    Boom Tron | 03 June 2011

    Paranormal YA writer Darren Shan gives us his adult fiction debut with Procession of the Dead, the first book in his City trilogy. It is a truly curious book, and undoubtedly not for everyone....

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  • School Library Journal

    School Library Journal | 01 June 2011

    The 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...

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  • The Lonely Book-Club

    The Lonely Book-Club | 30 May 2011

    Darren Shan has been one of my favorite authors since I, a day in the autumn or winter of 2003, laid my hands on the Norwegian edition of Cirque du freak, the first book in the Saga of Darren...

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  • Kid Twizzler Reviews

    Kid Twizzler reviews | 27 May 2011

    This book was amazing!!!! The characters were amazing, the emotions were truly amazing, and the ending was breathtaking. Nothing can compare to this book. I'm not saying this is one of the best...

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  • Bookworm 1858

    Bookworm 1858 | 26 May 2011

    This is a book I would have never read if not for the Overlooked Book Battle. Which means that I am very grateful to whoever nominated it because I loved this book!

     

    I began uncertainly...

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  • Readings of Benji

    Readings of Benji | 26 May 2011

    Okay so like I've said a million times and I'll say it a million more, I love Darren Shan. He's a great author. This book was an absolute masterpiece, from beginning to end. I really love the new...

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  • Blue Rat Reviews

    Blue Rat Reviews | 23 May 2011

    I'm not a horror fan, but the premise of this book drew me in: Jebel setting out on a brutal quest with the slave he must sacrifice at the end of it. Why would the slave go along? We find out...

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  • Night Blondie

    Night Blondie | 20 May 2011

    Your ideals are not always the correct ideals. Jebel Rum learns this in the novel The Thin Executioner by Darren Shan. The Thin Executioner follows Jebel on his travels to become the man he wants...

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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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  • Books @ NCPL

    Books @ NCPL | 16 May 2011

    Larten Crepsley is a young vampire with great aspirations. After leaving his mentor Seba Nile for a period of time that all Cubs (as young vampires are called) take to find themselves, Larten is...

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  • The Purple Moose

    The Purple Moose | 06 May 2011

    This next book by Darren Shan, Birth of a Killer, is not only the beginning of a series, it’s the beginning of the beginning; the first book of the new Cirque du Freak prequel series.

     

    Let...

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