Lord of the Shadows (Cirque Du Freak: Saga of Darren Shan, Book 11)

Darren Shan
Little, Brown and Company (2007)
ISBN 9780316016629
Reviewed by India Furney (age 12) for Reader Views (12/07)


Darren Shan travels with Cirque Du Freak--a sideshow of non-human creatures like Wolf Man.  He hides under the cover of the cirque from his human family and friends who think he is dead, when in reality he is a vampire prince.  Now the cirque is going to his hometown.   While there he runs into an old friend and has to make up a story about why he's still alive and hasn't aged. 

He has been having nightmares for two years about a shadow-like man called Lord of the Shadows.  The dreams are full of death and despair and the worst part is that he doesn't know if the Lord of the Shadows will be him or his old human friend, Steve Leopard, who is now the Lord of the Vampaneze.  The Vampaneze are half human, half vampire.

I liked “Lord of the Shadows,” but it was a little confusing coming in on the 11th book without reading the previous books.  I'll have to go get the other “Cirque du Freak” books because I loved this one!

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