Cirque Du Freak A3

Alex Madrigal
A3
Cirque Du Freak
Darren Shan
183
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I highly recomend this book to anyone who enjoys reading vampire books. It has a interesting plot and is also full of fast paced action and excitment. I also recomend for people like suspense, mystery and horror.

Darren Shan is just an ordinary boy Who loves to play soccer and hang out with his friends. However he also has an unusual love and fascination for spiders. One regular day darren and his friends are hanging out and having fun playing soccer when one of his friends takes out a flyer for a freak show called cirque du freak. even though all four of them wanted to go to the freak show only two managed to actually get tickets to it and they would be darren and his best friend steve leopard. they go to the freak show and see many incredible things but darrrens favorite performance was that of a man and his performing spider. After the show steve tells darren to go ahead and leave without him darren pretends to leave but when he hears steve and the owner of the performing spider he hides and eavesdrops on them darren hears Steve call the man a vampire and says that he wants to become his assistant and vampire the man tastes steves blood and and falls back in disgust and says that he has evil blood and would never turn him into a vampire. Darren runs home freaked out and scared and tries to forget what steve said but the only thing that took his mind off what steve said was that performing spider, darren goes and steals it brings it home and keeps it hidden in his closet he would play with it almost everyday and one day he decides to show it to steve but it bites him and invenomates him darren and his parents take him to the doctor, as he is on the brink of death darren decides to go back and talk to the vampire and decides to become his assistant for an antivenom darren becomes a half vampire and fakes his own death in order to leave home without anyone coming after him, he is even buried alive, after that he meets steve who swears revenge on him for taking his place as the vampires assistant and leaves, after that darren and his mentor mr.crepsley head off into the night.

I enjoyed this book cause it is full of lots of plot twists and excitment. You also get a chance to connect to the main character. This book is also full of plenty of irony. You get the chance to see how an ordinary boy goes from homework to sucking blood. this book is very unique. It even has a little humor in it. So as you can see there is a litlle someting for everyone.

My favorite part in the book is when they are at the graveyard and steve swears revenge on darren, Two best friends now turned enemies and you know that there will be some epic battle between them in the future.