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Cirque Du Freak #12: Sons of Destiny: Book 12 in the Saga of Darren Shan
Darren Shan
4.01 AVERAGE
232 reviews for:
Cirque Du Freak #12: Sons of Destiny: Book 12 in the Saga of Darren Shan
Darren Shan
4.01 AVERAGE
I loved the twist were added & how it ended. Thank you Darren Shan for this amazing journey!
I like it never said how the decision of the battle came out or how Evanna's children make the outcome change or not.
I like it never said how the decision of the battle came out or how Evanna's children make the outcome change or not.
Noooooo!! It's been a long time since I read this but I remember that the ending was completely a mind fuck! I mean seriously how could you just pretend like all 11 books didn't happen?!? What???!!!
I'm not so satisfied with the ending and it's too open... And a little dissapointing tbh. All Darrens work all his adventures FOR NOTHING? For his deeds to be replaced by some other random kid... While we don't even know what exactly happened to that kid.
I'm still having the 'so what happened now' moment right now. Darrens adventures were amazing and I loved every moment of it. The ending was not as I expected and it was definitely one that fucked with my mind.
My biggest wish would have been a reunion with Mr. Crepsley and very briefly it's mentioned but I wanted more! (I loved him his death wrecked me)
I must admit it was a big plottwist I had not seen that coming but after Leonard and Darren fighting it honestly went downhill. Like okay I could have accepted Darren changing the past in a way but not for him to have never made all his friends and stuff??
I see that after what Darren did this outcome was probably like the only one
I can't believe the last book could be so... changing? It just made all the rest feel so surreal. I loved the series but the ending not so much. In a way it does satisfy me though, it makes the world we live in now what really happened so we actually (sort of) know the outcome.
So why still 3 stars? I loved Darren Shan and I still think it's clever how the author made it all fit into eachother from the beginning until the end. In a way I can accept the ending if I ignore some factors (none of Darrens adventures happening being the biggest one) but still it's a hard pill to swallow.
I won't say I'm 100% satisfied but I have very mixed feelings about it.
I'm still having the 'so what happened now' moment right now. Darrens adventures were amazing and I loved every moment of it. The ending was not as I expected and it was definitely one that fucked with my mind.
My biggest wish would have been a reunion with Mr. Crepsley and very briefly it's mentioned but I wanted more! (I loved him his death wrecked me)
I must admit it was a big plottwist I had not seen that coming but after Leonard and Darren fighting it honestly went downhill. Like okay I could have accepted Darren changing the past in a way but not for him to have never made all his friends and stuff??
I see that after what Darren did this outcome was probably like the only one
I can't believe the last book could be so... changing? It just made all the rest feel so surreal. I loved the series but the ending not so much. In a way it does satisfy me though, it makes the world we live in now what really happened so we actually (sort of) know the outcome.
So why still 3 stars? I loved Darren Shan and I still think it's clever how the author made it all fit into eachother from the beginning until the end. In a way I can accept the ending if I ignore some factors (none of Darrens adventures happening being the biggest one) but still it's a hard pill to swallow.
I won't say I'm 100% satisfied but I have very mixed feelings about it.
Okay so I'm going to do a big long review for the entire series because I haven't really said much about the books.
There will be SPOILERS. This is your first and only WARNING so if you haven't read the books or if you've read some but not all then you might want to leave.
I'm going to start off by saying that I did really enjoy this series. The books were short and easy to read and mostly kept my attention really well.
Negatives (because they're more fun):
Story line: okay so there were a few books that didn't fit in to the overall story line of the series. The series overall was about the vampires vs vampaneze but some of the earlier books just apparently didn't know they were going in this direction. Also one of the later books (book 9?) where Darren and Harkat go to find out who Harkat really was. What was the point of this? We find out that Harkat was Kurda Smahlt but what did this story line really add to the overall series? I could've done without it.
Time travel: okay so this might not be a fault for everyone but for me, for some reason whenever time travel comes up in a book I immediately fall asleep. It wasn't in most of the books so I can't complain about the earlier ones but the later ones just piled it in and it messed with my brain and I did not like it. Plus the thing where you can go back in time and change something but it doesn't actually change really anything? What is that about?
Ending: while on the subject of time travel, I have many bones to pick with the 12 book. Specifically the ending. What the f*ck? W go through this whole big story line sit through all the drama and then they go "you know what? Let's make this some other kids problem" like that's going to fix everything. No. You think the protagonist of the story would have enough decency to say no and that they didn't want the burden to fall to someone else. But no. We got Darren going back in time (yes this stupid time travel thing again) to make sure that he didn't have to become a vampire and save the world and such. What a complete waist of everyone's time.
Twists: like I said in one of my reviews, is it just me or are the 'twists' not at all twisty? Maybe it was because I'd seen the movie that I knew Steve was going to be a big evil bad guy but I digress. I knew from the moment that it was said that Annie had a kid I was like 'yep gonna be Steve's' and with the book where Darren becomes a prince...it was pretty much in the tittle! You call the book the vampire prince but we've already met most of them in the last book...pretty sure Darren's gonna be one. And then Harkat Mulds. I know time travel bores me (I think I might've mentioned this already) but one of my first guesses of who Harkat was was someone from the present. And I was right. I didn't know it would be Kurda but I still was right.
Filler:
Now comes to the most disappointing part of this series.... the filler. Book one..well that had almost nothing happen and was just a set up for the rest of the series. Book 9 (?), the one in the future world, well that literally didn't need to be there. It served almost nothing to the plot. And then one of the books in vampire mountain (and I think I mentioned it in my review of that book but I can't remember which one it was) it was nothing. Nothing happened. There was no outcome or growth. It was just a setup for the next book. And then book 12 (seriously this book was the worst of the series) how much dialogue was there at the end? Like once Darren came back to life it was just a whole bunch of exposition that I didn't need. Like on stuff that I didn't care about either. They didn't tell me who died (we know Vancha and Harkat were still alive but the rest?!) but they told me that Mr Tiny was angry...like okay? I could've figured that out myself but thanks I guess.
Positives (because this series was actually pretty good):
Book 2: okay I have to spend a lot of time praising book 2. By far it was the best of the series. It was exactly what I came for. It took place at the cirque, it had vampire stuff like Darren coming to terms with his own vampirism, and gore and fun and good stuff. Everything leading up to the ending was brilliant. I felt for poor Sam. I felt for poor Darren. I was scared of the wolf man and thought R.V was a psycho. It was brilliant. Brilliantly handled, good pacing and whole lot of character development. Very good.
Development: I liked Darrens development through this series. And I really liked his slide into Steve-like madness near the end and him fighting to overcome it. I thought it was great.
Mr Crepsley: one of my favourite characters and I was really sad when he died (and very angry coz I just knew Steve would be the vampaneze lord). He was mysterious and fun and he really made the vampire world more vampiric. I came to this series for vampires and although I managed to forget that they were vampires in most of the books (mostly coz they never did anything much different than humans) I always knew Crepsley was one. He was dark, he was a bit shifty, he was a fun character to get to know.
Twists: I know this was one of my negatives but it's also one of my positives. I knew Steve was evil, I had called it from the start, but when he came and 'helped' them, it really threw me off. I was quite confused during that book. Was I right? How had I been wrong? And then I was right and it was really great. I liked that twist because it actually tricked me. I never saw the R.V vampaneze thing coming either. And that didn't quite startle me as much as the Steve thing did but I definitely didn't see it coming. I also never saw the Mr Tiny is Darren's dad thing coming. Like what was that? I'm still undecided if that was a good twist but I definitely never suspected it.
Tone: the tone of this series was creepy and dark but also light and fun so that I could really enjoy all the creepiness. It was soo good. It's probably why I stuck through this series even in certain books that weren't so grea, it was the dark but fun tone that kept me going and intrigued me.
Overall I think this series would probably rate 3 stars. Some of the books were really good but some kinda fell flat.
There will be SPOILERS. This is your first and only WARNING so if you haven't read the books or if you've read some but not all then you might want to leave.
I'm going to start off by saying that I did really enjoy this series. The books were short and easy to read and mostly kept my attention really well.
Negatives (because they're more fun):
Story line: okay so there were a few books that didn't fit in to the overall story line of the series. The series overall was about the vampires vs vampaneze but some of the earlier books just apparently didn't know they were going in this direction. Also one of the later books (book 9?) where Darren and Harkat go to find out who Harkat really was. What was the point of this? We find out that Harkat was Kurda Smahlt but what did this story line really add to the overall series? I could've done without it.
Time travel: okay so this might not be a fault for everyone but for me, for some reason whenever time travel comes up in a book I immediately fall asleep. It wasn't in most of the books so I can't complain about the earlier ones but the later ones just piled it in and it messed with my brain and I did not like it. Plus the thing where you can go back in time and change something but it doesn't actually change really anything? What is that about?
Ending: while on the subject of time travel, I have many bones to pick with the 12 book. Specifically the ending. What the f*ck? W go through this whole big story line sit through all the drama and then they go "you know what? Let's make this some other kids problem" like that's going to fix everything. No. You think the protagonist of the story would have enough decency to say no and that they didn't want the burden to fall to someone else. But no. We got Darren going back in time (yes this stupid time travel thing again) to make sure that he didn't have to become a vampire and save the world and such. What a complete waist of everyone's time.
Twists: like I said in one of my reviews, is it just me or are the 'twists' not at all twisty? Maybe it was because I'd seen the movie that I knew Steve was going to be a big evil bad guy but I digress. I knew from the moment that it was said that Annie had a kid I was like 'yep gonna be Steve's' and with the book where Darren becomes a prince...it was pretty much in the tittle! You call the book the vampire prince but we've already met most of them in the last book...pretty sure Darren's gonna be one. And then Harkat Mulds. I know time travel bores me (I think I might've mentioned this already) but one of my first guesses of who Harkat was was someone from the present. And I was right. I didn't know it would be Kurda but I still was right.
Filler:
Now comes to the most disappointing part of this series.... the filler. Book one..well that had almost nothing happen and was just a set up for the rest of the series. Book 9 (?), the one in the future world, well that literally didn't need to be there. It served almost nothing to the plot. And then one of the books in vampire mountain (and I think I mentioned it in my review of that book but I can't remember which one it was) it was nothing. Nothing happened. There was no outcome or growth. It was just a setup for the next book. And then book 12 (seriously this book was the worst of the series) how much dialogue was there at the end? Like once Darren came back to life it was just a whole bunch of exposition that I didn't need. Like on stuff that I didn't care about either. They didn't tell me who died (we know Vancha and Harkat were still alive but the rest?!) but they told me that Mr Tiny was angry...like okay? I could've figured that out myself but thanks I guess.
Positives (because this series was actually pretty good):
Book 2: okay I have to spend a lot of time praising book 2. By far it was the best of the series. It was exactly what I came for. It took place at the cirque, it had vampire stuff like Darren coming to terms with his own vampirism, and gore and fun and good stuff. Everything leading up to the ending was brilliant. I felt for poor Sam. I felt for poor Darren. I was scared of the wolf man and thought R.V was a psycho. It was brilliant. Brilliantly handled, good pacing and whole lot of character development. Very good.
Development: I liked Darrens development through this series. And I really liked his slide into Steve-like madness near the end and him fighting to overcome it. I thought it was great.
Mr Crepsley: one of my favourite characters and I was really sad when he died (and very angry coz I just knew Steve would be the vampaneze lord). He was mysterious and fun and he really made the vampire world more vampiric. I came to this series for vampires and although I managed to forget that they were vampires in most of the books (mostly coz they never did anything much different than humans) I always knew Crepsley was one. He was dark, he was a bit shifty, he was a fun character to get to know.
Twists: I know this was one of my negatives but it's also one of my positives. I knew Steve was evil, I had called it from the start, but when he came and 'helped' them, it really threw me off. I was quite confused during that book. Was I right? How had I been wrong? And then I was right and it was really great. I liked that twist because it actually tricked me. I never saw the R.V vampaneze thing coming either. And that didn't quite startle me as much as the Steve thing did but I definitely didn't see it coming. I also never saw the Mr Tiny is Darren's dad thing coming. Like what was that? I'm still undecided if that was a good twist but I definitely never suspected it.
Tone: the tone of this series was creepy and dark but also light and fun so that I could really enjoy all the creepiness. It was soo good. It's probably why I stuck through this series even in certain books that weren't so grea, it was the dark but fun tone that kept me going and intrigued me.
Overall I think this series would probably rate 3 stars. Some of the books were really good but some kinda fell flat.
I cannot even begin to express what the plot twists and sheer fuckery in this book have done to me. I am a shell of a person.
I can’t put in words how much this series mean to me.
I watched the movie when I was younger so many times because my fav actor was in it. But I never though I would really like the books because they’re middle grade, which is not really my genre.
I started the first one for a challenge and I fell in love with it. The plot interested me so much even in the books that weren’t that plot-centered (apart from Book 10 which was 🤢). I fell in love with the characters and I cried so much when some of my favs died.
I love the fact that the Author wasn’t scare of making people die or put weird or tricky plot devises.
This final book was a phenomenal ending.
I love such ending and I wish there were more in MG/YA literature. For me it was the right choice.
It was a HarryPotterDeathlyHallow-situation but SO MUCH BETTER! For as much as I love HP I always hated the finale. But this? It’s my perfect finale!
When part two started I started being disappointed but then! YES YES YES!!!
In conclusion:
Fav character: Larten, always and forever. I hated Darren at the beginning of the series but I come to love him so freaking much! ❤️
Least fav character: Debbie was SO useless and her only use was being a little love interest but she was so bad at it.
Fav book: Lord of the Shadows + Sons of Destiny
Least fav book: Lake of Souls
I watched the movie when I was younger so many times because my fav actor was in it. But I never though I would really like the books because they’re middle grade, which is not really my genre.
I started the first one for a challenge and I fell in love with it. The plot interested me so much even in the books that weren’t that plot-centered (apart from Book 10 which was 🤢). I fell in love with the characters and I cried so much when some of my favs died.
I love the fact that the Author wasn’t scare of making people die or put weird or tricky plot devises.
This final book was a phenomenal ending.
I love such ending and I wish there were more in MG/YA literature. For me it was the right choice.
It was a HarryPotterDeathlyHallow-situation but SO MUCH BETTER! For as much as I love HP I always hated the finale. But this? It’s my perfect finale!
When part two started I started being disappointed but then! YES YES YES!!!
In conclusion:
Fav character: Larten, always and forever. I hated Darren at the beginning of the series but I come to love him so freaking much! ❤️
Least fav character: Debbie was SO useless and her only use was being a little love interest but she was so bad at it.
Fav book: Lord of the Shadows + Sons of Destiny
Least fav book: Lake of Souls
The final book in the Cirque Du Freak series. Steve and Darren meet for the final battle to determine the fate of vampires, vampaneze, and humans. But if Darren wins is the world any better off than if Steve wins? Not according to Mr. Tiny and Evanna. Who will win? Does the world have a chance for survival? This book has the most unexpected ending of any book I've read in quite a while. A great ending to this delightful series.
I really liked the conclusion of the saga and I must say it was well done. I just don't know how I feel about the *actual* ending. It feels like JK Rowling's epilogue in the worst possible way. Darren floating into the light in the giant universe of stars? Can I barf yet?
Horrible. I'm so glad that I read 12 books so that I could find out that it was all a dream...