Half-vampire Darren Shan must leave the safety of the Cirque du
Freak again and embark on a perilous journey with his mentor, Mr
Crepsley. They must travel on foot to the Council at Vampire
Mountain, facing wolves, bears and their purple-faced,
human-murdering cousins, the Vampaneze. But when Darren finally
makes it there, he finds that the danger before him is far worse
than anything out on the mountain trail. In the shadow of the
journey to Vampire Mountain, a plot is being set up involving the
terrifying Mr Tiny's doom-laden prophecy predicting the rise of a
Vampanese Lord. Vampire Mountain is the first book of the second
three-part adventure in the saga of Darren Shan, and therefore
readers have to wait for the following two novels (Trials of Death
and Vampire Prince) for this set-up to come to fruition. The plot
here is thinner than in the previous trilogy, in which the books
were more independent of one another. Fans of Darren Shan will, I
am sure, be happy to commit to reading all three books (and
probably more - the author envisages writing about 20 in all) but
Vampire Mountain may not appeal to those who wish to dip in and out
of the series. However, half-vampire Darren Shan as a character has
enough magnetism to carry the books despite these problems. While
the first three books were essentially horror stories in which the
real world rubbed shoulders with that of the vampires, Vampire
Mountain is more fantasy, without the friction that made the series
so fascinatingly macabre. (Kirkus UK)
'Vampire Mountain'
The Next Gruesome Encounter for the Vampire's assistant
Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley embark on a long and dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world, where courage and endurance mean the difference between success and failure. But they face more than the cold on Vampire mountain – the vampaneze have been there before them…
Will a meeting with the vampire princes restore Darren's human side, or turn him further towards the darkness? Only one thing is certain, Darren's initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly then he can ever have imagined.
The next Darren Shan trilogy scorches into life – continuing in 'The Trials of Darren Shan' and concluding with 'The Vampire Prince'.
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