So am I going to read Book 6 The Vampire Prince? Well, see that's the trouble with cliffhangers, huh? You really have to read the next book don't you? You have know what happens to poor Darren. He thinks the Vampaneze are misunderstood, wants peace with them, thinks the vampire way of life is barbaric and out of date, and is making a detailed map of the caves of Vampire Mountain? Hello? Even the cliffhanger was given away in the first part of the book.įinally, I'd pretty much figured out in Vampire Mountain that Kurda Smadlt was a traitor (pretty sure he's the Vampaneze Lord everyone is freaking out about). Okay so fine Darren fails what's the big deal? The price of failure? Death! Now consider that these trials are normally performed by vampires in order to prove they are ready to become vampire Generals and they have been preparing for decades if not hundreds of years. First, I'm not quite sure how that's Darren's problem but then I'm not a vampire. Darren has to perform five trials to clear his master's reputation for making him an half-vampire so young. This installment of The Saga of Darren Shan was the biggest disappointment yet. Isn't that what I paid for? Okay I'll stop bitching now. Maybe it's just me but when I pay for a novel I think it should be a full NOVEL with a beginning, middle and an end. I bitched about this when I reviewed Vampire Mountain. It's just the next installment in one long book you have to read one part at a time. Honestly, it didn't have a beginning either because that was in book 4 Vampire Mountain.
Someone needs to explain to me why I paid $8 for a book that didn't have an ending to it. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat frustrating TO BE CONTINUED. Just when we get to the climax - BAM - To Be Continued And his injuries are carried over in the next few books - points for realism! He deals with pain and suffering head-on which is something unique compared to many other sugar-coated middle school novels I've read. Unlike most middle-school books, no one waved their wand to cure him. His trials are both difficult and painful - he loses his hair to fire, scrapes himself raw on another and nearly drowns to death in a third. While the other vampires do make some concessions, for the most part, Darren is thrown to the wolves. These trials are meant to for full vampires and Darren is only a half-vampire (and a young one at that). Either he manages to prove himself worthy of becoming a full vampire or his life will be cut extremely short.
In this novel, we find Darren competing in the Vampire Trials. but there's a difference between ending the book with a bit of a cliff hanger.versus literally stopping in the middle of a story.
I've noticed that Shan tends to end his books with a big TO BE CONTINUED. THIS IS NOT going to resolve anything of value
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