One day he and his best friend Steve go to a real freakshow, where they meet vampire Larten Crepsley. Darren Shan is an ordinary 16 year old teenager with a big fascination for spiders. The movie is loosely based on the first trilogy, Vampire Blood. Both teenagers must learn to control their power and learn the ways of being a new sort of being (wizard or vampire). Like Harry Potter Darren Shan is drawn into a mysterious but exciting new world. The tale of Darren Shan also has a Voldemort and a big (but very misty) showdown (in the last book). What the two series have in common is the scope of the story. None other than JK Rowling was a big fan of this series so comparisons to Harry Potter were made very soon. The vampire saga of Darren Shan consists of 12 books (four trilogies) and aims at kids aged 11-14. But in the end curiosity won and I went to see it anyway. And judging by the movie trailers the casting looked all wrong and the main character seemed too boring and too American to my taste. Sometimes you should let a book be a book. As a big fan of the vampire books by Irish writer Darren Shan I wasn't particularly looking forward to seeing Cirque du Freak: A vampire's assistant.
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