The 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...

If you love vampires (check) I think you’ll be in for a treat with Birth of a Killer. Okay the vampires don’t sparkle and shock horror there is no romance going on but you know what with an...

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

When reading prequels, it can be either two things: good or bad. Good is because it directly relates to the future and always references to events and characters of the future. Bad because they...

You’ve probably heard of Darren Shan – he’s a popular author, but two of his novels have been turned into Hollywood Blockbusters – “Cirque du Freak” and “The Vampire’s Assistant”. When his latest...

I loved the Cirque Du Freak series. It was awesome. So to say I was excited for the story of Larten Crepsley is an understatement.

The story begins with a very young Larten living in a...

What's the story? This is the prequel to Shan's ace Cirque Du Freak series. This story goes back to the vampire Larten Crepsley's beginnings. As a cash-strapped boy, he works hellishly long hours...

Larten Crepsley leads a hard, hard life. One child amongst many, born during an industrial revolution, he works horrendously long and dangerous hours in a silk factory even though he's yet to see...

THE twisted plot in the final book in international best-selling author Darren Shan's The City trilogy combines the mysterious past of the Incas, a phantom assassin and a trio of women who have a...

Darren Shan's "Procession of the Dead" is the first book in his "The City" series, which has been published in Britain in 1999. The next two books, "Hell's Horizon" and "City of the Snakes," are...

There are many people who have either read or watched "The Vampire's Assistant", also known under the title "The Saga of Darren Shan". This will come as a welcome surprise to those who enjoyed...

Larten Crepsley and his cousin Vur Horsten stuck together like glue. Living in a poor family of many children is difficult, especially due to the time era. Because of their poverty, Larten and...