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Blood Beast by Darren Shan
3.0

This is where the series started to make a return.

Of the three followups to Lord Loss, which was an amazing opening, Demon Thief was the least offensive. Kernel Fleck as a protagonist speaks really well to the experience of depressed, isolated, and bullied characters that readers might find comfort in relating to. Meanwhile, Slawter appears to be a bizarre what-if scenario that was born of whatever hell making the Cirque du Freak movie was, and Bec was just exhausting when you just wanted to get on with Grubbs fighting with Lord Loss again.