Little did I know that Alan's mysterious piece of paper was to change my life forever. For the worse! Darren is just your average schoolboy -- or was, at least -- until he and his friend Steve buy tickets to the outlawed magical and macabre Cirque Du Freak. Packed with wonderfully grotesque characters -- including a snake-boy, a wolf-man and, most exciting of all, an enormous performing spider -- the boys are enchanted, fascinated and yet terrified by the show. Darren, a total spider freak, decides to steal and train the ...
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Little did I know that Alan's mysterious piece of paper was to change my life forever. For the worse! Darren is just your average schoolboy -- or was, at least -- until he and his friend Steve buy tickets to the outlawed magical and macabre Cirque Du Freak. Packed with wonderfully grotesque characters -- including a snake-boy, a wolf-man and, most exciting of all, an enormous performing spider -- the boys are enchanted, fascinated and yet terrified by the show. Darren, a total spider freak, decides to steal and train the spider to perform amazing tricks. Not realising the extreme consequences of his daring theft, Darren finds himself forced to make a terrible bargain with a creature of the night! Told in a compelling 'mock-umentary' style, Cirque Du Freak is more than just a spooky supernatural tale. It has bags of teaching potential, and is consistently described as one of the best books to engage reluctant readers -- and keep them reading.
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This is the beginning of an amazing series you won't be able to stop reading. I finished the series in about a week because it was so good I didn't want to put it down. Full of so many twists and turns that you'll be turning the pages like a mad man trying and wanting to see what is going to happen next. I highly recommend you read this book and all the books that follow. Scary and entertaining. I mean, who doesn't love books with scary monsters and cool vampires?
cirquedufreak
Oct 27, 2011
Review of ?Circque Du Freak? On 10-27-11
Darren Shan writes a lot of books like this one that have a horrifying plot and a creative ending that provide great entertainment to the readers. The characters are terrifying monsters and a couple of boys that meet these monsters. This could be a great scary story to tell friends around a campfire.
In the beginning of the book, two dare devilish boys go wondering around one day and find a flyer for a festival called ?cirque Du Freak? where they meet a handful of monster which seem to just be real people. The book brought a little fright to me also because of all the scary events that occur. But overall the book was very entertaining. Any average reader can read this book and be satisfied with the storyline, but you will have to read it to find out what really happens.
Tj W
Nov 5, 2010
Thank you
Thank you, book arrived safely, in good condition. I have been unable to get it away from my daughter so that I can read it too.
