The Thin Executioner is one of the most gripping tales ever by Darren Shan – there were lots of unexpected twists, keeping me wondering what’s going to happen next… I couldn’t stop reading from...

With 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...

Regardless of his size, Jebel Rum has always wanted to be the successor of his father as the executioner for his
tribe, a profession that is somewhat honored and entertaining. It doesn’t help...

Darren 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...

Darren 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...

Darren 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...

Darren Shan is your average boy (I imagine around 11 or 12, it never says) who likes being with his friends, playing soccer, and messing with creepy animals like big furry spiders. His life is a...

To start this post, I don't think I could use anything better then the words from the back of the book: "The executioner swung his axe - THWACK! - and another head went rolling into the dust."

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I cannot even begin to tell you the amount of times I have sat down and tried to write or film a review for this book. Each time I attempt it I miss out a million things I want to say so I’m just...

Larten Crepsley is a major character in Shan’s “Cirque Du Freak” series and this book, first in a proposed 4-book series, tells his life story starting briefly with his pre-vampire childhood and...

The 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...

Second 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...