Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant by Darren Shan
I finished reading Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant by Darren Shan. It’s the second book in the Saga of Darren Shan.
When I read the first book, A Living Nightmare, I thought The Vampire’s Assistant movie was an adaptation of the first two books in the series. Um … I was wrong. The movie’s actually an adaptation of the first three books, so I didn’t expect what happened in this book at all.
A Living Nightmare was almost exactly like the first half of the movie adaptation with some changes like most movies have. However, the only thing The Vampire’s Assistant book had in common with its movie adaptation was that Darren and Mr. Crepsley joined the Cirque du Freak. Everything else was completely different and completely new to me. Now, that wasn’t a bad thing or anything. I just wasn’t expecting most of the things that happened in the book.
I liked this book a lot better than the first one. The first one was slow because it was building up the characters and the layout of the story. This book was much faster paced and I read it in two days, which is good since it was due back to the library today. Finished it in the nick of time. 
This series is categorized as young adult, but I’d say it’s actually written more for middle readers than teenagers. In some ways, the books seem very juvenile. I like the story enough, though, so the books hold my interest. I look forward to reading the third book and actually catching up with the movie.
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I gotta be honest I think if I picked that book up off the shelf I’d look at it and put it back. And I’ve never heard of the movie, did you like the movie? Is that what prompted you to go get the books?