`fast paced and compelling, full of satisfying macabre touches - Cirque du Freak explores the powerful fascination of the dangerous and unnatural and also, movingly, the obligations of friendship' J. K. Rowling THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 1 Darren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve. It's the wonderfully gothic Cirque du Freak where weird, frightening half human/half animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience. Darren - a spider freak - `falls in love' with Madam Octa - an enormous ...
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`fast paced and compelling, full of satisfying macabre touches - Cirque du Freak explores the powerful fascination of the dangerous and unnatural and also, movingly, the obligations of friendship' J. K. Rowling THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 1 Darren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve. It's the wonderfully gothic Cirque du Freak where weird, frightening half human/half animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience. Darren - a spider freak - `falls in love' with Madam Octa - an enormous tarantala owned by the circus proprietor. Darren determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds. But his daring theft goes horrible wrong. The spider bites his best mate and Darren has to sell his soul to an evil vampire to get the antidote. Something out of the ordinary is set against the background of children's normal lives to chilling effect. Atmospheric, funny, realistic, moving and... terrifying.
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This is the beginning of an amazing series you won't be able to stop reading. I finished the series in about a week because it was so good I didn't want to put it down. Full of so many twists and turns that you'll be turning the pages like a mad man trying and wanting to see what is going to happen next. I highly recommend you read this book and all the books that follow. Scary and entertaining. I mean, who doesn't love books with scary monsters and cool vampires?
cirquedufreak
Oct 27, 2011
Review of ?Circque Du Freak? On 10-27-11
Darren Shan writes a lot of books like this one that have a horrifying plot and a creative ending that provide great entertainment to the readers. The characters are terrifying monsters and a couple of boys that meet these monsters. This could be a great scary story to tell friends around a campfire.
In the beginning of the book, two dare devilish boys go wondering around one day and find a flyer for a festival called ?cirque Du Freak? where they meet a handful of monster which seem to just be real people. The book brought a little fright to me also because of all the scary events that occur. But overall the book was very entertaining. Any average reader can read this book and be satisfied with the storyline, but you will have to read it to find out what really happens.
Tj W
Nov 5, 2010
Thank you
Thank you, book arrived safely, in good condition. I have been unable to get it away from my daughter so that I can read it too.
