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Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare

The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 1

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In the tradition of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, New York Times best-seller Cirque du Freak is the first title in the popular Saga of Darren Shan series.

Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human/half animals who interact terrifyingly with the audience. In the midst of the excitement, true terror raises its head when Steve recognizes that one of the performers - Mr. Crepsley - is a vampire!

Steve confronts the vampire after the show finishes - but his motives are surprising! In the shadows of a crumbling theater, a horrified Darren eavesdrops on his friend and the vampire, and is witness to a monstrous, disturbing plea. As if by destiny, Darren is pulled to Mr. Crepsley and what follows is his horrifying descent into the dark and bloody world of vampires.

This is Darren’s story.

©2013 Darren Shan (P)2013 Blackstone Audio Scary Fantasy Fiction
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I have always taken a liking to darren shan from the demon saga. This book is definiatly the best so far, truely brilliant.

Very well performed!

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My 10 Yr old adores this collection and is now getting to be an acid reader alongside the books on audible. This was exactly what he needed.

10yr olds favourite book

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Read through most of the series years ago was disappointed by the movie adaptation happy to listen to this series once more

fantastic teen vampire fiction

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Okay, so bit nostalgic, so I suppose slightly biased review, read this when I was around, oh I don’t know, 6 or 7? Sister borrowed it originally from her friend and read it to me when I was growing up, fell in love with this story, read the rest myself, and I have to say the way this VA read this story it’s how I heard the voices when I was younger, this is well worth the listen, fantastic reader, reading a fantastic book to start a phenomenal series.
If you ever stumble upon this review some how, give the book a chance, may seem a little bit childish at first but, to me, this story was ahead of its time. I will always highly recommend this series, and now I’m always going to recommend this audio book series as well. Got me through work, kills a lot of time and this is a VA that put the effort in.
Give it a shot. You won’t be sorry.

Decades later.

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i read these books when I was a kid, and rediscovering them as audiobooks as an adult has been amazing

as good as I remember

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