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Okay, to be honest, I had noticed some hints and fore-shadowings. And by giving his story a surprisingly surprising twist, he actually surprised me. Just when I was enjoying the predictable groove the book had fallen into-livened up by an escalating series of scary close-calls-author Darren Shan (actually O’Shaughnessy) did the thing I least expected: the unexpected. While none of the possible deaths offered by the randomly-drawn trials sounds much better than that, Darren opts to face fate on his feet.īut after seeing Darren survive his first three trials and growing more confident that he is going to make it through them all, what happens next may not be what you expect. As you would expect from the ending of Vampire Mountain, Darren must either pass five trials of physical courage, luck, and endurance-any of which could kill him-or, upon failing or wimping out, face execution by being dropped repeatedly into a pit of sharpened stakes. But it looks as if he may need to be drowned, roasted, sliced, and skewered along the way. Cirque Du Freak-or book 2 of the Vampire Rites trilogy, which is the second of four trilogies within the same-half-vampire Darren starts to look less like an eternally whiny teenage git and more like someone with the potential to be a hero. In book 5 of the Saga of Darren Shan, a.k.a.