Darren is an idiot. There is no way round it, if he hadn't be so determined to go to an illegal freak show with his friend Steve and hadn't continued to make idiotic decisions he'd never have got into this trouble. On the other hand, he's a teenager and although it was a fair while ago now, my memories of that age are that I was an idiot too so maybe it comes with the territory.Cirque du freak is written for children/teens and the tone of the writing is definitely geared to that age group. It made it harder for me to settle into the book but I got used to it and it didn't prevent me enjoying the story. It was fairly predictable but no worse for that and it's only the first book in the Vampires Assistant trilogy that has recently been made into a film. I am not so enamoured that I will read the other two, but I will be looking forward to seeing the film and I expect one of the reviewers for Young & Un:Bound will thoroughly enjoy this and race through the three books. I don't feel there is quite enough here for adult readers.
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One of my foster daughters LOVED this series, so I've always been curious.
We tend to forget that yes, during the teen years, the reasoning center of the brain ceases to grow for a few years, resulting in some pretty dumb decisions. I did make my fair share of them!
That said, it might annoy me a little as well...
He's not one of those writers that writes so beautifully that anyone of any age can enjoy them. Not for me anyway.
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