At the Cirque Du Freak there are lots of acts but one makes Steve nervous. The act that makes Steve nervous is a man called mr. Crepsley and his spider madam Octa.Mr.Crepsley can talk to the spider with a whistle and makes hiis spider do loads of tricks. At the end of the show Steve says to Darren that he forgot something at his seat and he has to go and get it.Darren decides to follow Steve. Darren hears Steve on the stage talking so Darren takes the stairs to a balcony. Darren sees Steve talking to mr.Crepsley and finds out mr.Crepsley is a vampire and Steve wants to become one too. Mr.Crepsley tests his blood and says he's evil, Steve gets annoyed and leaves in a strop. Darren goes home instead of waiting for Steve. Darren loves spiders but he especially liked mr.Crepsley's. Darrren decides to go back to the cirque and steal madam Octa. He successfully steals her and takes her home. A few days later in the week-end Steve goes to Darrens house unaware of Darren spying on him.. Darren shows Steve the spider and shows him some tricks. If you break contact with spiders they go crazy. When Darren makes madam Octa climb onto Steve's neck Darren's sister Annie bursts into the room Darren loses contact with madam Octa and she bites Steve who has to go to hospital. Mr.Crepsley knows Darren stole madam Octa and goes to Darren's house. Mr.Crepsley says he can only be cured if DArren becomes his assistant as a half-vampire. Darren accepts and Steve is saved. Darren has to fake his death so he can leave his family.Steve finds out that Darren is a vampire and thinks that he took Steve's place as a vampire. When mr.Crepsley digs Darren out of his grave Steve knocks mr.Crepsley out and vows to hunt Darren down and leaves.
Book 2: The vampires assistant. Darren is learning the ways of the vampires but he refuses to drink blood, if he doesn't drink he will die. Darren and mr.Crepsley go to the circus were Darren meets new friends who are the performers but his best friend is Evra Von who is a snake boy. Darren shares a tent with him. At the cirque Darren helps mr.Crepsley on stage and does the daily chores like feeding the wolf man, cleaning the wolf mans cage and feeding the little people. The little people are dead people who have been given life by a man called mr.Tiny, you will find out who he is later. One day a boy called Sam Grest arrives at the cirque to check it out and Darren and Evra go to meet him. They go to the old unused railway track and meet an eco-warrior called R.V. Darren and Evra give them tickets to the cirque. At the show Darren went on with mr.Crepsley as his assistant. One of madam Ocata's tricks was to bite and kill a goat. At the end nof the show Darren and Evra meet Sam and R.V to see if they liked it. R.V hated the killing of the goat and the wolf man being trapped inside a cage. R.V frees the wolf man. The wolf man rips R.V's hands of and R.V runs away. The wolf man chases Sam to the old railway and Darren trys to help but the wolf man kills him. If a vampire wants to keep someones memories alive they drink from them when they are freshly dead. Darren decides to do that with Sam and it's Darren's first time drinking blood.
Book 3: Tunnels of Blood. (The enemies of the vampires are called the vampaneze, when they drink they kill which makes their face go purple) Mr.Crepsley, Darren and Evra go to mr.Crepsleys home town were reports of bodys drained of blood have been found. Darren and Evra don't know where mr.Crepsley goes at night he says its a secret mission but Darren and Evra are suspicious. (it's christmas at the time) Darren decides to buy mr.Crepsley and Evra a christmas present but he meets a girl called Debbie (who later on becomes his girlfriend)who invites him to the cinema then back to her house. One night Darren decides to follow mr..Crepsley on his secret mission. Mr.Crepsley goes into a building and finds out he's trying to hunt down a vampaneze. Darren accidentally lets the vampaneze called Merlough go. Will they find and kill him? you have to find out yourself by reading it.
Book 4: Vampire Mountain. The trio come back to the cirque where a man called mr.Tiny is waiting for them. Mr.tiny tells mr.Crepsley and Darren that they have to travel to a place called Vampire Mountain.(The leaders of the vampires are called princes) At Vampire Mountain Darren will be judged by the princes to see if he's worthy of being a member of the vampire clan. Two little people accompany them. They have an exiting journey but you will have to read to find out what happens. At Vampire Mountain their met by an old vampire called Seba Nile who shows them to their room. The next day Darren gets a tour round Vampire Mountain. When the princes meet him they decide that he has to take the trials of death that you normally take to become a vampire general.(a vampire general is one step down from being a prince.
Book 5: Trials of Death. The trials can all bring death. Read the book if you want to know what the trials are and what happens to Darren. One of Darren's trials was to kill two boars. In the trial Darren almost died but a little person saved him. A vampire called Kurda Smalht asked him to escape vamire mountain with him because Darren would most likely be killed by the Princes and he accepted. Along a tunnel another vampire joined them called Gavner Purl. They get into a battle with the vampaneze and Kurda killed Gavner. Darren runs away then falls into a river that floats away from vampire mountain. The river is used when a vampire dies. They throw them in the river for the animals to eat.
Book 6: The Vampire Prince. At the end of the river Darren climbs out feeling very lucky to be alive but he has very little strength. Vampires share the same blood as wolves do so wolves like vampires. Darren gets rescued by some wolves and get taken back into the pack. When Darren got his strength back a wolf led Darren to a secret tunnel to the room of the princes to tell them that Kurda was a traitor. Kurda was about to become a prince and if the prices thought Darren wasn't lying the Kurda would die but so would Darren for failing the trials. Kurda brought vampaneze in to help him. The vampires find all the vampaneze and there is a battle. In the end Kurda gets executed and the only way Darren can not be killed for failing the trials is that he becomes a vampire prince!
Book 7:Hunters of the Dusk. Mr.Tiny comes into vampire mountain an discusses with everyone that there will be a war between the vampires and vampaneze and the vampaneze have a new leader called the vampaneze lord. Three hunters who are Darren mr.Crepsley and another vampire they meet later on. Only the hunters can kill the zampaneze lord and only the vampaneze lord can kill them. They will have three chances to defeat him. Read it to see the start of the hunt.
- Book 8: Allies of the Night.In a town bodies are piling up so the hunters have a suspicion the Vampaneze are there so the check into a hotel. An inspector called mr.Blaws visited Darren one day to talk about going to school and how he has missed so much learning. Darren goes to school and finds Debbie as his English teacher. As a half-vampire Darren ages at 1 year every 5 so Darren will be young and Debbie is an adult. As Darren was walking away from Debbie's one night a man struck him on the head but another saved him. The person that saved him was Steve. Later on in the book you find out Steve betrayed them and lead them into another battle. At the end of the battle the protector of the vampaneze lord Gannen Hurst lets them run for 30 mins and then chase them. In the battle Darren knocked Steve out and took him with them and R.V who is now a vampaneze with hooks for hands has Debbie. The chase is on....
Book 9: Killers Of The Dawn. The Hunters They enter a building but police are surrounding it. The police had a suspicion that they killed the people. Vampires can jump a few stories without getting hurt so they decided to jump. As they fell mr.Crepsley hurt his ankle and couldn't walk.The third hunter called Vancha March captured the police chief. They decided Vancha should flit (a super fast run) away from the police and let Harkat (a little person who joined them), Darren and mr.Crepsley get arrested, Steve got taken to the next door to the police station hospital. At the police station Darren answers the questions. Word got out that Steve had killed a few people and escaped. The police man left and left one man in the cell stay with Darren. The vampaneze recruited humans which they called the vampets. The man was called Morgan James who was a vampet and knew Darren was a vampire.He let Darren go to free the others. They escaped and mr.Crepsley who was a full vampire couldn't stay in light for very long was getting burnt. Darren went to a shop and bought some sun cream. As he was leaving he looked at a TV on the ceiling where there was a report on Darren. The man behind the counter realized it was him then shouted. The people heard then started a mob. The hunters decided to run into a tunnel to get away from the mob and the sun. Vancha appeared with Alice and Debbie. They decided to move down the tunnel where they found a pit of stakes and the vampaneze. They knew there was another battle to come.mr.Crepsley snuck past the battle onto the platform where Steve, the vampaneze lord and Gannen Hurst was. Mr.Crepsley killed the vampeneze lord but Steve threw mr.Crepsley into the pit of stakes he was dead. At the end of the book Darren discovers the vampeneze lord was not the person mr.Crepsley killed, it was Steve.
Book 10: The Lake Of Souls. Darren, Harkat, Vancha, Alice and Debbie go to the cirque disappointed. Harkat has had bad dreams all the time he's been a little person.Mr.Tiny arrives at the cirque a few days later. Saying that Harkat can go to the future (but they didn't know that then) and find out who Harkat was in his previous life to stop his bad dreams. Debbie and Alice go to vampire mountain to ask if they can have a human army called the vamperites who fight against the vampets. In the future world Darren and Harkat fight a panther, a giant toad, dragons twice and a weird mythical creature. Read it to see what happens. Harkat finds out he's the traitor Kurda Smalht.
Book 11: Lord Of The Shadows. Darren and Harkat return to the cirque where there next performance was at Darrens old town. At the cirque a boy named Darious was spying on them. Darren and Harkat show them around. At the end of there tour Darren gave him a ticket to the show. Later on Darren explores his old town. He goes past his old house and sees his sister annie with her child. At the cirque Darren doesn't perform anymore because of the death of mr.Crepsley. So he decided to go out and see if he could see anyone he recognized. He saw his old friend Tommy who was now a goalkeeper for the local football club. At the end of the show Darren met Tommy again. Tommy gave him a ticket to the match the next day. At the end of the match the day after Tommy was the last person out of the tunnel but just as he left he was shot by RV who was with Steve. Darren chased them. read it if you want to read the battle. Darren comes of worse and ends up lying in an alley way on the streets. The next thing he knew he was in a house with Debbie, Alice and Harkat and a few days later Vancha. When Darren was strong again they went to the cirque to celebrate Evra's child Shancus' birthday. The next day they were talking to mr.Tall the owner of the cirque.They heard a scream and rushed out to see what it was. Steve had captured Shancus. Then RV shot mr.Tall. I forgot how but they had Darious. They chased him into a theater where Steve offered Shancus for Darious. As they swapped the kids Steve killed Shancus. Then told Darren that if he killed Darious he killed his nephew....
Book 12: Sons Of Destiny. This book is the final of the series and there is something happening at almost every page so I don't wan to spoil it.
I would deffinatly give this book 10/10 and would recommend it for boys.
The film is completely different to the book so if you do both go with the books.
J.H
The film is completely different to the book so if you do both go with the books.
J.H
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