CIRQUE DU FREAK

Main characters:
Darren Shan, Steve Leopard, Mr. Crepsley

Summary
Darren and Steve are the best friends. One day, one of their friends got a flyer, titled “CIRQUE DU FREAK”. There are four boys wanted to go to the show, but only two tickets they got. Finally, Darren got one of tickets by his sixth sense and Steve got the other one. In the freak show, there were Sive and Seersa—the twisting twins, The Snake Boy, The Wolf Man, Gertha Teeth, Larten Grepsley and his performing spider—Madam Octa, Alexander Ribs, The Bearded Lady, Hans Hands, and Rhamus Twobellies—world’s fattest man. The freak show is excited and horrible. After the show, Steve asked Darren go home himself first, but Darren stayed secretly to see what Steve wanted to do. Amazed, Steve found that Mr. Crepsley is a vampire and asked him let Steve becomes a vampire, too. However, Mr. Crepsley refused him, and Steve swore with angry that he would be a vampire hunter and kill Mr. Crepsley. Darren loved spiders, and he was eager for Madam Octa, Mr. Crepsley’s spider. He stole her from the vampire successfully and found that he can train her as successful as Mr. Crepsely. When he showed her to Steve, Madam Octa bit Steve accidentally and Steve was dying. To save Steve’s life, Darren asked Mr. Crepsley for help and promised that if Mr. Crepsley could save Steve, he would be his vampire assistant. He didn’t tell anyone that he is a vampire, one reason is no one would believe him, and another is he didn’t think that Steve would be happy if he know he become a vampire not him. However, Steve found out Darren’s secret and wanted to kill him because he swore he would kill vampires before. He failed. Darren, had become a vampire, started an adventure with Mr. Crepsley. (To be continued)

Reflection
I think it is an interesting story but a little scary. In the freak show, there was a woman’s arm bit apart from her body by the Wolf Man. It scared me. How could a show with the terrible thing happening? And, I like Mr. Crepsely most of all characters in the story, because I think that the way he chose his vampire assistant was amusing. Why he chose Darren, not Steve, who asked him, to be his assistant? When he refused Steve’s ask, he said that is because Steve has bad blood, evil blood. Did it adumbrate that Steve would be a murderer or a ghastly person? I think so. I would buy Book 2 to read, because I can’t stop myself from figuring out the following story.