Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Darren Shan: Hunters of Dusk

*****

In the seventh book, a war called War of the Scars has started between the Vampires and the Vampaneze and Mr Tiny goes to Vampire Mountain and tells the prophecy to the Vampire Princes that the only way to defeat the Vampaneze Lord was to send 2 vampires. Non-vampires were also allowed to come but 2 vampires was the limit. The 2 vampires were Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley. Harkat Mulds joined in too. Their journey starts at Lady Evanna's cave so she can tell them that they have 4 chances to defeat the Vampaneze Lord and what lies ahead of their journey. Lady Evanna is a sorceress with really strong powers but not strong as Mr Tiny's. Before that happened, they met a Vampire Prince named Vancha March who chose to live in the wild and he joins in their mission. Vancha and Mr Crepsley told Darren that Evanna was not a witch( although she looked like one, she isn't). When they reached the cave( the place was filled with frogs!), they saw Evanna who looked liked a witch and since she didn't liked to be called a witch, Darren asked if she's a witch. When Evanna heard about this, she was furious and started shouting, blaming that it was Vancha and Mr Crepsley's fault that they did not tell him not to call her a witch. To show proof she isn't a witch, Lady Evanna magically transformed into a beautiful woman( who kind of looks like Cinderella). They stayed and relaxed in her cave and then the next day, Evanna said that she would come with them. So Lady Evanna, Vancha March, Larten Crepsley( that's Mr Crepsley's full name), Harkat Mulds and Darren Shan setted off. Their next stop was the Cirque Du Freak circus because they thought that the Vampaneze Lord was there. Darren was excited about coming back to meet his old friends especially Evra Von the snake boy. There, Evra introduced Darren to his son, Shancus( I forgot his other children's names). Both father and son, were good at performing at the circus. But somehow, at midnight, Darren heard voices outside his tent and he realized that Evanna was talking to a group of Vampaneze( and a servant with a hood)! He alerted Vancha, Larten and Harkat that they were here so they attacked them. The vampires were winning but Vancha was about to battle a vampaneze when he let him escape with the servant. I thought tha t Vancha was really foolish but the reason why he let the vampaneze escape is that he is his brother! But who was the servant? Well, Vancha said that his brother's the royal protector of the Vampaneze Lord so that was actually him, disguised as a servant! They lost a chance to defeat him. The 3 vampires and the Little Person went up to Lady Evanna why she was on the side of the Vampaneze? She said that she was on nobody's side and she was asking them questions. This is a really good book because there was a surprising ending!

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