Darren Shan: Allies of the Night

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The eighth book is really sad ( even sadder than Trials of Death) because Darren Shan sees old faces but they're new nightmares. Before that, Darren, Mr Crepsley and Harkat( Vancha went to Vampire Mountain to report the Princes what happened but he will come back soon ) were in the city, tracking down Vampaneze and avoiding the police. They rented a hotel as normal people with fake names. Darren's fake name was Darren Horston, Mr Crepsley's was Vur Horston and Harkat's was....... well, he really didn't have a fake name but he was in disguise anyway. Since Darren lived in the city ( the same city in Tunnels of Blood ) he wanted to find his girlfriend and check if she is still there. But he had to go to school and fill out forms from a school inspector. I wanted to say is that throughout the 7 books I've read, Darren battled many enemies including the deranged and mad vampaneze, Murlough and the fierce wolf man but throughout those 10( or 11) years as a vampire, he almost forgot everything he've learnt when he was a human! School was his worst fear yet because not only because of studying but evil enemies await him. Anyways, at the first day of school, he was bullied by these Australian students. Then, he was sent to the principal( well, he's not in trouble but an orientation). The principal's name was Mr Chivers and he was 30 minutes late! Darren realized he cycled to school. Mr Chivers lead him around the school( I forgot, the school is called Mahler's as in Mahler, the music composer ). After that, Darren went to the first block, Geography. It was easy for him but at the second period, Darren's math teacher, Mr Smarts bellowed" you don't even know how to do Algebra!". Well, it's because Darren learned the ways of a vampire too much, he forgot how to do math. His third block, English was an exciting surprise ( find out for yourself if you wanna know what happened after that. Hint: Darren hasn't seen his _________ for a long time). This is a very good book but with a very very very sad ending.