Book 2 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Having abandoned his old way of life to unwillingly serve as Mr Crepsley's assistant, Darren must accustom himself to the habits of vampires. But the change is difficult and the loneliness is crushing.
In an attempt to give Darren a sense of stability, Mr...
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Downright Dystopian | 27 May 2014
After finishing A Living Nightmare, I instantly starting reading the sequel because I just needed to know what happened. These books are just so short and fast paced and I adore every second of...
Read full review: Downright DystopianMarkham Reviews | 15 April 2014
Even better than Cirque Du Freak. I LOVE this series. The Vampire’s Assistant is darker and more violent than the first, but it’s so intelligently and compellingly written that I’d still be...
Read full review: Markham ReviewsSpazticnerd | 03 March 2014
So for those of you who don’t know, this is book two of the Cirque Du Freak series. This books follows Darren Shan on this first adventure with the vampire who blooded him, Mr. Larten Crespley.
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Read full review: SpazticnerdFantasy Literature | 19 February 2014
Warning: This is the second book in the CIRQUE DU FREAK series, so this review necessarily contains spoilers for Book 1.
Darren Shan’s life is officially a mess after several monumental...
Read full review: Fantasy LiteratureThe Vampire Source | 13 August 2013
When you look up Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak book series, you will find it categorized in either the "children" or "young adult" sections online and in stores. I will admit, I was twelve when I...
Read full review: The vampire SourceComic Book resources | 29 March 2011
THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA
Cirque du Freak volume 2 by Darren Shan and Takahiro Arai. As volume 2 opens, Darren is starting to realize the true cost of becoming a “half-vampire.” He...
Read full review: Comic Book ResourcesVoya (USA) | 24 April 2010This second installment in the Cirque du Freak saga of Darren Shan picks up soon after Darren has been turned into a half-vampire by his master, Mr. Crepsley. Darren is sworn to a life of servitude...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Voya USA)Voices From The Middle (USA) | 24 April 2010Sequels are a dicey business. Seldom do the second installments live up to the original. That is most certainly not true for the second in the vampire series that began with Cirque Du Freak. Darren...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Voices From The Middle USA)Times Educational Supplement (UK) | 24 April 2010In The Vampire's Assistant, the sequel to Cirque du Freak (with more to come), Darren Shan is trapped as a half-vampire. The narrative device of "If I hadn't... maybe things would..." was effective...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Times Educational Supplement UK)The Sunday Tribune (UK) | 24 April 2010THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT by Darren Shan is part two of Cirque Du Freak (actually, it's part two of The Saga Of Darren Shan -- darren). Young Darren has now been drawn under the wing of Mr...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (The Sunday Tribune UK)Sunday Mercury (UK) | 24 April 2010With Cirque Du Freak, Shan created an instant children's classic to rival the Harry Potter series. Even J.K. Rowling herself professed to be a fan of the young author's spine-tingling tale of...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Sunday Mercury UK)School Library Journal (USA) | 24 April 2010After a breezy two-page introduction that gives the major plot points of Cirque du Freak, readers are plunged back into the world of a young, newly minted half-vampire (a concept that is never...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (School Library Journal USA)mystgalaxy.com | 24 April 2010Cirque Du Freak starts out when a scout leader is walking home from a scout meeting. He begins to hear twigs snap around him. Soon there was a vampire and a young boy. The young boy breathed on his...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Mysterious Galaxy USA)myshelf.com | 01 September 2001The Vampire's Assistant is the frightening sequel to "Cirque Du Freak - The Saga of Darren Shan."Darren is learning to cope with his new identity as a half vampire. He is lonely and misses his...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (My Shelf USA)Mrs Mad's Book-A-Rama | 24 April 2010Mrs Mad's humble opinion
9/10 Very good. I am pleased with this.
What's it about?
Darren's new life starts in the Cirque du Freak, he makes friends with a Snake Boy and two ordinary humans, but he...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Mrs Mad’s Book-A-Rama UK)Kirkus Reviews (USA) | 24 April 2010The sequel to Shan's successful horror debut is another guilty pleasure. Shan, the author/narrator of this putative true account, is now a "half-vampire" and the assistant to the well-meaning...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Kirkus Reviews USA)Kids' Turn Central (USA) | 24 April 2010"Suddenly my days as a human were over. My nights as a vampire's assistant had begun......"In book one of the series, A Living Nightmare, young Darren leaves the human world with Mr. Crepsley, a...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Kids’ Turn Central USA)Kids Bookshelf (USA) | 24 April 2010The second book in the thrilling Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan takes us further into Darren's troubles and what it's like to be a vampire. Darren has become Crepsley's assistant and is...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Kids Bookshelf USA)GWN Online (USA) | 24 April 2010The Vampire’s Assistant, the sequel to Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak, will get your heart pounding and your blood pumping. Nothing can prepare you for what Darren must face this time around. With...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (GWN Online USA)greenmanreview.com | 24 April 2010Darren is a reluctant half-vampire — though he has resigned himself to his new role — and finds drinking the blood of humans to be very distasteful and unethical. But of course, he needs to in...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Green Man Review USA)thegoodbookguide.com | 24 April 2010'We're masters of the macabre ...agents of mutations. Lords of the surreal.' THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 2 Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque du...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (The Good Book Guide UK)The Funday Times (UK) | 24 April 2010* * * * * (5 stars)If you thought Cirque Du Freak was terrifying, prepare yourself for The Vampire's Assistant. This spectacular second adventure is darker, gorier and better, as Darren comes to...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (The Funday Times UK)The Evening Herald (Ireland) | 24 April 2010The Darren Shan saga will never outsell Harry Potter, but the Limerick writer provides macabre thrills aplenty here for younger readers. The Vampire's Assistant takes up where Cirque Du Freak left...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (The Evening Herald Ireland)epinions.com | 06 July 2005Trial By Fire, Initiation By Blood. The Birth of “The Vampire’s Assistant”
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One of the best in the series, carries...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Epinions USA)umanitoba.ca | 23 May 2003I was buried alive and then, in the dead of night, with no one around, he dug me up and we took off together. My days as a human were over. My nights as a vampire's assistant had...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (CM Magazine Canada)Children's Literature (USA) | 24 April 2010In this horror novel, the author and protagonist share the same name—Darren Shan. With that crafty twist, the action gets underway fast and furiously. Young Darren is a half-vampire, torn between...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Children’s Literature USA)bookloons.com | 24 April 2010I tried to hide The Vampire's Assistant from my two sons when it arrived, but failed. My eleven year old, a most reluctant reader, whose only previous literary interest has been comic books like...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Bookloons USA)Booklist (USA) | 24 April 2010This sequel to the fast-paced Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare finds Darren Shan in difficult circumstances. Vampire Larten Crepsley has begun the process of turning Darren into a vampire, but...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Booklist USA)The Big Issue (Ireland) | 24 April 2010This is the awaited sequel to Cirque Du Freak, in which Darren is turned into a half vampire. Darren struggles with his new identity and is also desperately trying to resist the temptation to...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (The Big Issue Ireland)barnesandnoble.com | 01 September 2001Darren Shan continues the saga of a teenage boy who gets unwittingly drawn into a world of vampires, werewolves, and other freaky creatures with this second installment in his innovative Cirque Du...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Barnes and Noble USA)amazon.com | 01 September 2001What if you were an unwilling vampire? You needed to drink human blood to stay alive, but you weren't some horror-flick villain; you were you, born human--a nice person, even. Thus is the dilemma...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Amazon USA)amazon.co.uk | 24 April 2010Readers familiar with The Saga of Darren Shan will enjoy this second instalment on audio cassette. The Vampire's Assistant is read gleefully and yet touchingly by Alan Cumming. Darren is now living...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant Audio CD (Amazon UK)amazon.co.uk | 30 May 2000The Vampire's Assistant is the second instalment in the saga of Darren Shan, which began with Cirque du Freak. Then, Darren made the difficult decision to become a half-vampire to save his best...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Amazon UK)Achuka (UK) | 24 April 2010On the back of some imaginative and energetic promotion (the launch was held well in advance of publication), Cirque du Freak sold over 10,000 copies in its first month. However, I have already...
Read full review: The Vampire’s Assistant (Achuka UK)CBR - Comic Book Resources | 02 August 2009
THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA ADAPTATION OF THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT.
Cirque du Freak volume 2 by Darren Shan and Takahiro Arai. As volume 2 opens, Darren is starting to realize the true...
Read full review: CBR - Comic Book ResourcesManga Recon | 27 July 2009
THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE MANGA ADAPTATION OF THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT.
Well, so much for a grand adventure with a master and his apprentice taking on the wild. When Mr. Crepsley reazlizes...
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