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The Saga of Darren Shan #6
The Vampire Prince
Betrayed by Kurda and reeling from the brutal slaying of Gavner, the vampire's assistant, Darren Shan, finds himself branded a traitor and hunted by the vampire clan. Reissue.
197 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2002
About the author
Darren Shan
253 books7,977 followersLibrarian's note: Also writes books for adults under the name Darren Dash. And in the past he has released books for adults under the names D.B. Shan and Darren O'Shaughnessy.
Darren Shan (born July 2, 1972 in London, England) is the pen name of the Irish author Darren O'Shaughnessy, as well as the name of the protagonist of his book series The Saga of Darren Shan, also known as The Cirque Du Freak Series in the United States. He is the author of the series The Demonata, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, and Zom-B. He has also released the stand-alone novel, The Thin Executioner, and the stand-alone short novels, Koyasan, and Hagurosan. Plus, for adults, he released The City Trilogy (originally under the name of D.B. Shan), and Lady of the Shades..
Darren Shan (born July 2, 1972 in London, England) is the pen name of the Irish author Darren O'Shaughnessy, as well as the name of the protagonist of his book series The Saga of Darren Shan, also known as The Cirque Du Freak Series in the United States. He is the author of the series The Demonata, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, and Zom-B. He has also released the stand-alone novel, The Thin Executioner, and the stand-alone short novels, Koyasan, and Hagurosan. Plus, for adults, he released The City Trilogy (originally under the name of D.B. Shan), and Lady of the Shades..
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August 19, 2016
At last a book in this series with a conclusion!!!
I have to say this installment was 200+ pages of really great reading. I blew through it in no time at all. I really like Darren, his character is well written and I find myself very much relating to him. To be honest, I find myself reading the series primarily to see where things are going to go with this main character. This time the author did not disappoint.
I think I would have rather read one book with 600 pages than this and the last two 200 page books in this series with cliffhangers but I don't control that. I think the 600 page book would have been a easy 5 star read. But oh well.
So far, I think it's a great series for tweens and young teens. It's a quick easy read. They are entertaining. But the plot isn't complex enough to hold the interest of someone looking for something with some meat to it.
To read my review of the other books in this series, use the links below:
Book One: A Living Nightmare
Book Two: The Vampire's Assistant
Book Three: Tunnels of Blood
Book Four: Vampire Mountain
Book Five: Trials of Death
Book Seven: Hunters of the Dusk
February 24, 2019
The Vampire Prince (Cirque du Freak #6), Darren Shan
The Vampire Prince is the sixth book in The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan (his real name, Darren O'Shaughnessy). It is also the third and final book of the Vampire Rites trilogy. The book carries on from when Darren Shan was falling down a roaring river in Trials of Death, and he must make his way back to Vampire Mountain, while avoiding Kurda Smahlt and his accomplices.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه می سال 2006 میلادی
عنوان: شاهزاده اشباح: کتاب ششم از سری قصه های سرزمین اشباح؛ نویسنده: دارن شان، مترجمها: سوده کریمی؛ فرزانه کریمی؛ تهران، قدیانی؛ کتابهای بنفشه، 1383، در 200 ص؛ شابک: 9789644177620؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان انگلیسی سده 21 م
دارن، در چهارمین آزمون شکست میخورد. او نگران مجازاتی است، که برایش در نظر خواهند گرفت، دارن متوجه میشود، یکی از دوستانش، به قبیله ی اشباح خیانت کرده، اگر خائن رسوا نشود، قبیله از بین میرود، و اگر دیگران را خبر کند، خود باید در انتظار مجازات مرگ باشد. و ...؛ ا. شربیانی
The Vampire Prince is the sixth book in The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan (his real name, Darren O'Shaughnessy). It is also the third and final book of the Vampire Rites trilogy. The book carries on from when Darren Shan was falling down a roaring river in Trials of Death, and he must make his way back to Vampire Mountain, while avoiding Kurda Smahlt and his accomplices.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه می سال 2006 میلادی
عنوان: شاهزاده اشباح: کتاب ششم از سری قصه های سرزمین اشباح؛ نویسنده: دارن شان، مترجمها: سوده کریمی؛ فرزانه کریمی؛ تهران، قدیانی؛ کتابهای بنفشه، 1383، در 200 ص؛ شابک: 9789644177620؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان انگلیسی سده 21 م
دارن، در چهارمین آزمون شکست میخورد. او نگران مجازاتی است، که برایش در نظر خواهند گرفت، دارن متوجه میشود، یکی از دوستانش، به قبیله ی اشباح خیانت کرده، اگر خائن رسوا نشود، قبیله از بین میرود، و اگر دیگران را خبر کند، خود باید در انتظار مجازات مرگ باشد. و ...؛ ا. شربیانی
May 30, 2019
اوایل تا نیمه داستان کند پیش می‌رفت اما در ادامه داستان جالب شد و برای اولین بار تو این مجموعه غافلگیر شدم. دیدگاهی که در مورد جنگ با همنوع ارائه شد برام دلچسب بود.
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یادگاری از کتاب:
یادشان رفته که نابودی آن‌ها، نابود شدن قسمتی از خودمان است. بیشتر اشباح هیچ وقت متوجه این قضیه نمی‌شوند که جنگ در حقیقت چقدر وحشیانه و بی‌فایده است.
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یادگاری از کتاب:
یادشان رفته که نابودی آن‌ها، نابود شدن قسمتی از خودمان است. بیشتر اشباح هیچ وقت متوجه این قضیه نمی‌شوند که جنگ در حقیقت چقدر وحشیانه و بی‌فایده است.
August 20, 2019
Actual rating: 2.5 indifferent stars
I first read The Vampire Prince years ago in middle school when I was obsessed with Darren Shan and his books. But I never finished the series due to many of my favorite characters dying. I don't remember much about those days, but I remember being scared and anxious reading this series. Rereading this book took me back to those years and my younger self. I no longer feel like the book is scary or has any nail biting, edge-of-your-seat quality. I even think it's quite underwhelming. The writing wasn't special and I couldn't find anything endearing about the characters. I actually found the MC, Darren, to be kind of annoying and had I spent more time with him I would've hated him. But Young Rosaline would disagree with Boring Old Rosaline. She thought Darren Shan was pretty cool! And that this series was super scary!
Either way, despite what my rating might suggest, this wasn't a bad book at all. And I'm sure the following books will get very exciting if I'm right about the Vampaneze Lord's identity (which I know I am ;D). But for me, at this point of my life, it just wasn't anything special.
I first read The Vampire Prince years ago in middle school when I was obsessed with Darren Shan and his books. But I never finished the series due to many of my favorite characters dying. I don't remember much about those days, but I remember being scared and anxious reading this series. Rereading this book took me back to those years and my younger self. I no longer feel like the book is scary or has any nail biting, edge-of-your-seat quality. I even think it's quite underwhelming. The writing wasn't special and I couldn't find anything endearing about the characters. I actually found the MC, Darren, to be kind of annoying and had I spent more time with him I would've hated him. But Young Rosaline would disagree with Boring Old Rosaline. She thought Darren Shan was pretty cool! And that this series was super scary!
Either way, despite what my rating might suggest, this wasn't a bad book at all. And I'm sure the following books will get very exciting if I'm right about the Vampaneze Lord's identity (which I know I am ;D). But for me, at this point of my life, it just wasn't anything special.
February 14, 2021
Darren Shan!!! What just happened to you!!!! Awesomeness, that’s what!!!
The drama and action in this installment what great!! There was not a dull moment to be seen. We did unfortunately lose a couple of my favorite characters, but even so, the plot was great. Darren grows so much in this one. Leaps and bounds really. I can hardly wait to see what he’s going to get into next! And who knew that vampires were so stubborn!!
Anyway, I highly recommend this one!!! Such a great read. And having binged the series so far on audiobook, I really recommend listening to Ralph Lister reading these. He does such a great job!! Welp, I’m off to read the next one!!! Just can’t help it!! 😄😄😄
The drama and action in this installment what great!! There was not a dull moment to be seen. We did unfortunately lose a couple of my favorite characters, but even so, the plot was great. Darren grows so much in this one. Leaps and bounds really. I can hardly wait to see what he’s going to get into next! And who knew that vampires were so stubborn!!
Anyway, I highly recommend this one!!! Such a great read. And having binged the series so far on audiobook, I really recommend listening to Ralph Lister reading these. He does such a great job!! Welp, I’m off to read the next one!!! Just can’t help it!! 😄😄😄
September 22, 2024
4.25 stars
August 20, 2019
این کتاب اوایلش کند پیش می‌رفت ولی از اواسط خوب شد و پایان عجیب و جالبی داشت.
January 23, 2021
This book was another great edition to the Cirque du Freak series. Though the plot and setting have gravitated really far from the original storyline, I still find this series to be just as interesting and well written. The characters have all changed for the better and I'm curious to see what the next story arc in this series will be about.
This book in particular has a very well developed morally gray character and I applaud the author for creating this character. Similar to Snape in the Harry Potter series, I find myself both despising and loving the character at the same time. I'm opting not to say which character it is in my review so that if anyone reading my review chooses to read this series, they will be shocked by which character I'm talking about.
My only complaint about this book is that one of the five female characters was killed off and it was the only strong female character that was killed off. This book lacks females and especially admirable ones, so having the only powerful one being killed of is both disappointing and wrong.
This book in particular has a very well developed morally gray character and I applaud the author for creating this character. Similar to Snape in the Harry Potter series, I find myself both despising and loving the character at the same time. I'm opting not to say which character it is in my review so that if anyone reading my review chooses to read this series, they will be shocked by which character I'm talking about.
My only complaint about this book is that one of the five female characters was killed off and it was the only strong female character that was killed off. This book lacks females and especially admirable ones, so having the only powerful one being killed of is both disappointing and wrong.
August 15, 2015
All cool and exciting but... that ending was a little bit crazy and senseless. But he has to be "the one", right?
October 21, 2011
I couldn't stand the ending. Why why why did that person have to die?? Why not someone else? Gosh, I really admired that character, such a pity that he/she/it had to die. Kinda sucks...
But overall the book was not too bad. The action was a little boring for me, but I liked seeing how Darren had an epiphany during it. He realised that vampaneze were just like them, they just had different beliefs. Yet, vampires would slaughter them, and take pride in it. That part of him made me see that he had really grown up and was no longer a kid, even though his outer appearance would be like one.
The ending was really cool. I love Paris omg! He's so like a cute old man who's mischievous and all! Haha and Arrow was really funny when he was rubbing his bald head and said he had suddenly got an idea. I dunno, it just made me laugh..
Overall, it was a good book and the end threw me a little because I thought I had remembered that event as happening later in the series! But, overall, the ending was good.
Gosh, I wish true love prevailed in this book, where the lovers would have a HEA... But what can I say? It's not a romance after all... Read it to know what I'm talking about!
But overall the book was not too bad. The action was a little boring for me, but I liked seeing how Darren had an epiphany during it. He realised that vampaneze were just like them, they just had different beliefs. Yet, vampires would slaughter them, and take pride in it. That part of him made me see that he had really grown up and was no longer a kid, even though his outer appearance would be like one.
The ending was really cool. I love Paris omg! He's so like a cute old man who's mischievous and all! Haha and Arrow was really funny when he was rubbing his bald head and said he had suddenly got an idea. I dunno, it just made me laugh..
Overall, it was a good book and the end threw me a little because I thought I had remembered that event as happening later in the series! But, overall, the ending was good.
Gosh, I wish true love prevailed in this book, where the lovers would have a HEA... But what can I say? It's not a romance after all... Read it to know what I'm talking about!
October 26, 2021
9.29 on CAWPILE
These really do get better and better as they go
These really do get better and better as they go
July 27, 2020
This trilogy of books was building up to this, and it’s honestly extremely disappointing. For a group of supposedly ancient vampires, they sure do have the emotional complexity and behavioural tics of teenagers.
July 4, 2019
First half what a bit of a deception for me, liking this series so much, I find that it had a lot of talking/planning/explaining and nothing was really happening. This change in the second half. Lot of action, we find those good old characters that we love and the ending!! Even if it start to slow for me, it was definitely a good read in an awesome series!
February 2, 2021
هم‌چنان اصرار دارم. :)
September 22, 2018
This book has been so Heart wrenching!!! But I absolutely loved the ending!
December 10, 2020
THIS BOOK DOES NOT inch the plot by much
Not that I really minded. After the intensity of the last few books, it was nice to see Darren taking time to smell the roses.
We last left Darren (character, not writer) plunging into a raging river - facing near-death (yet again!) as his body is thrown against the rocks and he nearly drowns. He's rescued by a pack of wolves - the same ones he ran into a couple of books ago - and is helped by them to get back to Vampire mountain.
I was a little annoyed by the way Darren Shan (author) treated the wolves - and that they become essential to the plot point - only for them to drop off the face of the earth. Lots of bonding and emotional build...that builds to ultimately nothing. I've noticed this is becoming a pattern.
It almost feels like Darren Shan (writer) didn't know what to do with them (as with the other characters) once they fulfilled their role.
Only one death swings back around to make sense at a latter date (which if you've read the series before - did any else catch it before the big reveal? I remember my mouth dropping when I read that bit in middle school!)
Audiobook Comments
Ralph Lister read this one - rather well done!
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Not that I really minded. After the intensity of the last few books, it was nice to see Darren taking time to smell the roses.
We last left Darren (character, not writer) plunging into a raging river - facing near-death (yet again!) as his body is thrown against the rocks and he nearly drowns. He's rescued by a pack of wolves - the same ones he ran into a couple of books ago - and is helped by them to get back to Vampire mountain.
I was a little annoyed by the way Darren Shan (author) treated the wolves - and that they become essential to the plot point - only for them to drop off the face of the earth. Lots of bonding and emotional build...that builds to ultimately nothing. I've noticed this is becoming a pattern.
It almost feels like Darren Shan (writer) didn't know what to do with them (as with the other characters) once they fulfilled their role.
Only one death swings back around to make sense at a latter date (which if you've read the series before - did any else catch it before the big reveal? I remember my mouth dropping when I read that bit in middle school!)
Audiobook Comments
Ralph Lister read this one - rather well done!
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December 18, 2021
به این جلد 3 دادم چون از جلد قبل تا حدودی قابل پیش بینی بود که چه اتفاقی قراره بیفته و چون هیجان جلدهای قبلی رو نداشت
هروقت این مجموعه رو میخونم مدام می پرسم که دارن شان چجوری با 18 سال سن اینقدر برنامه ریزی شده و جذاب نوشته آخه
کلا دارن شان اینجوریه که توی صفحه 5 راجع به یه پوست موز مینویسه و داستان رو جوری پیش میبره که توی صفحه 40 یکی پاش بره روی پوست موز و به کله بخوره زمین 😁
یعنی اتفاق های کوچیکی که حین خوندن اصلا به نظر مهم نمیاد رو جوری بسط میده که منجر به اتفاق های بزرگ میشه
اوایل کتاب من رو یاد انیمیشن " کتاب جنگل " مینداخت. جوری که دارن با گرگ ها دوست بود و با اون ها به شکار می رفت
معلوم بود که آخر کتاب چی میشه ولی به واسطه ی یه اتفاق غیرقابل پیش بینی (امیدوارم منظورمو رسونده باشم 😂😅)
***اسپویل***
من به شدتتتتتت از مرگ آرا افسرده و غمگین و ملول و دلشکسته م 🙁💔😭
من تازه خیال میکردم که آرا و کریپسلی دوباره پیش هم بر میگردن
این حق آرا نبود😩
دلم برای آقای کریپسلی سوخت
آقای کریپسلی همانطور که قول داده بود رفتار کرد. از هر نظر خوب رفتار کرد. حتی وقتی تخت حامل جسد را آتش زدند، او یک قطره اشک هم نریخت. اما بعد، وقتی در اتاقش تنها شد، با صدای بلند گریه کرد، طوری که صدایش در همه دالان ها و تونل های کوهستان اشباح پیچید. این صدا تا سحر شنیده
می شد؛ تا وقتی که صبحِ سردِ تنهایی سر زد
هروقت این مجموعه رو میخونم مدام می پرسم که دارن شان چجوری با 18 سال سن اینقدر برنامه ریزی شده و جذاب نوشته آخه
کلا دارن شان اینجوریه که توی صفحه 5 راجع به یه پوست موز مینویسه و داستان رو جوری پیش میبره که توی صفحه 40 یکی پاش بره روی پوست موز و به کله بخوره زمین 😁
یعنی اتفاق های کوچیکی که حین خوندن اصلا به نظر مهم نمیاد رو جوری بسط میده که منجر به اتفاق های بزرگ میشه
اوایل کتاب من رو یاد انیمیشن " کتاب جنگل " مینداخت. جوری که دارن با گرگ ها دوست بود و با اون ها به شکار می رفت
معلوم بود که آخر کتاب چی میشه ولی به واسطه ی یه اتفاق غیرقابل پیش بینی (امیدوارم منظورمو رسونده باشم 😂😅)
***اسپویل***
من به شدتتتتتت از مرگ آرا افسرده و غمگین و ملول و دلشکسته م 🙁💔😭
من تازه خیال میکردم که آرا و کریپسلی دوباره پیش هم بر میگردن
این حق آرا نبود😩
دلم برای آقای کریپسلی سوخت
آقای کریپسلی همانطور که قول داده بود رفتار کرد. از هر نظر خوب رفتار کرد. حتی وقتی تخت حامل جسد را آتش زدند، او یک قطره اشک هم نریخت. اما بعد، وقتی در اتاقش تنها شد، با صدای بلند گریه کرد، طوری که صدایش در همه دالان ها و تونل های کوهستان اشباح پیچید. این صدا تا سحر شنیده
می شد؛ تا وقتی که صبحِ سردِ تنهایی سر زد
June 10, 2024
بعد از گذشت اینهمه سال و دوباره خوندنش، هنوز قلبم از داستان غمیگنش به درد میاد واقعا 🖤
"Even in death may you be triumphant."
"Even in death may you be triumphant."
April 3, 2021
Admito que la primera mitad de Darren sobreviviendo después de lo que sucede al final del anterior se me hizo súper lento, por eso me costó mucho comenzar este libro. Pero ya la segunda mitad avanza más rápido.
Darren fue traicionado por quien creía su amigo, no sólo fue condenado a muerte por los príncipes vampiros, sino que al intentar escapar termina cayendo en un río. Tiene que hacer todo lo posible para sobrevivir y avisar a los vampiros de que una amenaza está en sus puertas.
Como dije al principio toda la primera mitad de Darren en el agua, sobreviviendo y con los lobos, se me hizo demasiado larga y no porque lo fuera, porque los libros son cortos. Sino que muy lenta y no avanzaba, entiendo lo grave de su estado y todo, pero me costó leerla.
Por desgracia, incluso cuando vuelve a la montaña me sentí desconectada con la historia, porque se sentía como poco importante, no solo la traición sino que incluso la pelea fue como rápida. Se nota que es el preludio de algo más grande y que solo nos daba información de lo que se venía, como empezar a preparar el tablero.
El príncipe vampiro es el final de la segunda trilogía que se centra en todo el tema de las tradiciones de los vampiros y su estilo de vida. Cierra con el anuncio de una futura guerra y con Darren volviéndose un miembro importante.
Darren fue traicionado por quien creía su amigo, no sólo fue condenado a muerte por los príncipes vampiros, sino que al intentar escapar termina cayendo en un río. Tiene que hacer todo lo posible para sobrevivir y avisar a los vampiros de que una amenaza está en sus puertas.
Como dije al principio toda la primera mitad de Darren en el agua, sobreviviendo y con los lobos, se me hizo demasiado larga y no porque lo fuera, porque los libros son cortos. Sino que muy lenta y no avanzaba, entiendo lo grave de su estado y todo, pero me costó leerla.
Por desgracia, incluso cuando vuelve a la montaña me sentí desconectada con la historia, porque se sentía como poco importante, no solo la traición sino que incluso la pelea fue como rápida. Se nota que es el preludio de algo más grande y que solo nos daba información de lo que se venía, como empezar a preparar el tablero.
El príncipe vampiro es el final de la segunda trilogía que se centra en todo el tema de las tradiciones de los vampiros y su estilo de vida. Cierra con el anuncio de una futura guerra y con Darren volviéndose un miembro importante.
March 29, 2015
The Vampire Prince is a step in the right direction for continued improvement. While the decisions of the council irritated me in the fifth book, and Darren’s adherence to the ridiculous trials, the plot is picking up from that cliffhanger to go in directions I like again.
Graphic and depressingly grim with some of the fight scenes, I'm glad Darren redeemed himself more in my eyes with his thoughts towards some actions that had to happen. Crepsley finally grew more courageous in the face of common sense, and I loved seeing the wolves again, this time with a much larger role.
The punishment for the vampires is pretty brutal stuff – a strange contraption where they’re dropped on a bed of stakes and don’t always die instantly. Not fun.
The beginning was interesting with how he recovered, to the reactions of the vampires and the revelation of the traitor at hand. The ending - well, I kind of expected something like that to occur - although I wasn't sure how it would come about. It's a little outlandish and silly but I think it's to tie up with the prophecy. Have a feeling, thanks mainly to the movie, who his arch-nemesis will be.
I was kind of hoping to leave Vampire Mountain for a bit but don't see that happening anytime soon. Darren is such a likeable character that I'm glad the vampires in this book held more common sense than before.
Shan is leaving the black-and-white behind, redeeming the characters a little as their world opens and the opinions start to stretch out, seeking that there may be valid points even in the actions of traitors. Darren’s turning an eye toward the possibilities of the vampineze – the big, bad enemy of them all – may have started with the same good intentions the vampires did. They could be cut from the same cloth after all.
January 7, 2011
This book is about a boy named Darren Shan. In the last book Darren fell into a river when he was betrayed by his friend Kurda Smahlt who was in league with the vampeneze "the vampires arch enemy" and kurda was planning an attack on the vampires .
When he fell into the river he was carried down the river and washed up on the bank. When he tried to get up to go back to vampire mountain, he realized he was too weak from getting tossed around in the river and it was snowing outside. He saw two dark figures coming out of the woods, it was his wolf friends. They carried him back to their camp where he rested a few days until he was stronger. When he regained strength he made the trek back to vampire mountain where Kurda Smahlt was about to become a prince but Darren stopped the ceremony and told everyone what happened. When the other princes found out they sentenced him to death. After Kurda died some of the vampires went searching for the vampeneze.
After they found them all the vampires planned a surprise attack on the vampeneze. The vamires won the battle but lost a vampire general, Arra Sails, but Darren who failed the trails of inatation in the last book still had to be sentenced to death. The only vampires that wouldn't have to die if they failed the trails were princes so they made Darren a prince.
When he fell into the river he was carried down the river and washed up on the bank. When he tried to get up to go back to vampire mountain, he realized he was too weak from getting tossed around in the river and it was snowing outside. He saw two dark figures coming out of the woods, it was his wolf friends. They carried him back to their camp where he rested a few days until he was stronger. When he regained strength he made the trek back to vampire mountain where Kurda Smahlt was about to become a prince but Darren stopped the ceremony and told everyone what happened. When the other princes found out they sentenced him to death. After Kurda died some of the vampires went searching for the vampeneze.
After they found them all the vampires planned a surprise attack on the vampeneze. The vamires won the battle but lost a vampire general, Arra Sails, but Darren who failed the trails of inatation in the last book still had to be sentenced to death. The only vampires that wouldn't have to die if they failed the trails were princes so they made Darren a prince.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 11, 2017
This series really has lost all of its appeal. Each of the last three installments feels like it was churned out without a single thought other than to make money. Each was only part of a book with long sections dedicated to useless scenes and dialogues that were drawn out for far too long with the single purpose of increasing the page count. The first three of the series started out promising and were entertaining, but when the story turned away from the Cirque Du Freak and focused on the society of the vampires, it just all went downhill from there. I thought this was supposed to be middle-grade horror. No one wants to read about how vampires are honorable, trustworthy, and reliable. At least I don't anyway. I thought Mr. Crepsley was creepy in the first three books, but now his character has been reduced to a caring, soft-hearted foster parent for Darren. WTF!!! If you decide to you want to read this, stick to the first three stop, srsly!
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January 22, 2009This book is in a series about a young boy who is blooded by a Vampire. In this book he lived in the wild with a pack of wolfs, which he bonded with in the 4th book, after he ran from his death sentence before and found out the horrible truth about his close friend Kurda Shmalt. Kurda was going to betray the clan, he plotted with his their ex- blood cousins the Vampanze. Darren came back to Vampire Mountain to stop Kurda and the Vampanze.Darren stopped there plans with the help of Seba Nile. After the brutal and bloody battle with the blood cousins, Darren was made a Vampire Prince so he would not have to face his death penalty. It was then he took his rightful place among his blood brothers and his fellow Princes
August 28, 2016
کل کتاب خوب بود. ولی ده صفحهٔ آخر چی می‌گفت دقیقاً؟ :|
احساس می‌کنم اسکل شدم :|
احساس می‌کنم اسکل شدم :|
August 16, 2020
immer wieder nett. wie immer aber auch keine gross literarische angelegenheit.
May 17, 2020
اولین خوانش از ۱۲ تا ۱۹ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۹
#6_2020
#141_all
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🖤 درکل: 8/10
متاسفانه من نمیدونستم این داستان با کتاب های قبلیش ربط داره و از این شماره شروع کردم و احتمالا قصد ادامه رو دارم چون داستان خیلییی ساده است در حد یک نوجوانانه و داستان خوبی داره.
*** یه سوال 🧐
شخصیت های کتاب و ترجمه اصلی ک��اب (the vampire prince) نشون میده که خون آشام هستن ولی چرا این مترجم شبح ترجمه کرده 🤕 خیلی مزخرف بود
و جایی مطمعن شدم که خون آشامن وقتی که گفت تو نور آفتاب ظاهر نمیشن و خون رو مینوشن
دیگه چرا شبح؟!!!!!!!!
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👻 موضوع کتاب: ۷
خاطرات یه نیمه خون آشام از بعد‌فرارش از دست حکم اعدام از دست پادشاهان خون آشام شروع میشه.
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🧛🏻♂️ شخصیت ها: ۸.۵
شخصیت ها خوب بودن، با اینکه این اولین کتابم از این سریاله ولی اصلا گیج نشدم و کاملا سریع باهاشون اشنا شدم.
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🌊 مسیر داستان: ۸.۵
داستان خیلی جذاب تو این قسمت پیش رفت (من قسمت ها قبلی رو نخوندم ولی این یکی خوب بود)
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مصطفی تبریزیان
اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۹
#6_2020
#141_all
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🖤 درکل: 8/10
متاسفانه من نمیدونستم این داستان با کتاب های قبلیش ربط داره و از این شماره شروع کردم و احتمالا قصد ادامه رو دارم چون داستان خیلییی ساده است در حد یک نوجوانانه و داستان خوبی داره.
*** یه سوال 🧐
شخصیت های کتاب و ترجمه اصلی ک��اب (the vampire prince) نشون میده که خون آشام هستن ولی چرا این مترجم شبح ترجمه کرده 🤕 خیلی مزخرف بود
و جایی مطمعن شدم که خون آشامن وقتی که گفت تو نور آفتاب ظاهر نمیشن و خون رو مینوشن
دیگه چرا شبح؟!!!!!!!!
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👻 موضوع کتاب: ۷
خاطرات یه نیمه خون آشام از بعد‌فرارش از دست حکم اعدام از دست پادشاهان خون آشام شروع میشه.
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🧛🏻♂️ شخصیت ها: ۸.۵
شخصیت ها خوب بودن، با اینکه این اولین کتابم از این سریاله ولی اصلا گیج نشدم و کاملا سریع باهاشون اشنا شدم.
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🌊 مسیر داستان: ۸.۵
داستان خیلی جذاب تو این قسمت پیش رفت (من قسمت ها قبلی رو نخوندم ولی این یکی خوب بود)
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مصطفی تبریزیان
اردیبهشت ۱۳۹۹
August 28, 2021
I hate the way Arra Sails was written as a character. "Imagine how they would mock you if you died by a woman's hand!" or something like that. Seriously?
On the other hand, I loved the way Kurda Smahlt was written. Possibly the only character I connected with and cared about. It was pretty funny to see him executed, and then, moments later, Darren is made a prince just so he doesn't have to be executed. Even though, in both cases, none of the present vampires wanted them dead, and both of them broke vampire laws before their motive was revealed. So what's the difference? The difference is that Kurda isn't the MC.
On the other hand, I loved the way Kurda Smahlt was written. Possibly the only character I connected with and cared about. It was pretty funny to see him executed, and then, moments later, Darren is made a prince just so he doesn't have to be executed. Even though, in both cases, none of the present vampires wanted them dead, and both of them broke vampire laws before their motive was revealed. So what's the difference? The difference is that Kurda isn't the MC.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 20, 2022
Darren's maturity in his attitude toward death and murder stuck out most to me in this book. He returns the prodigal son when he exposes the Vampaneeze, but there are consequences — dire ones. Darren finally becomes more self-dependent here, too. After all the action in the last book, The Vampire Prince sets us up for the next stage in Darren Shan's story.
February 19, 2023
Prompts this fits for reading challenges: Yellow cover, green cover, body part on the cover, vampire, royalty, refugee, secrets, complicated relationships, mythological creatures, survival, battle, pet as a character (Madame Octa), includes a funeral, murder, character with a visible/physical disability, surprise ending.
Darren's having a heck of a time. Having just watched a friend be murdered by another friend in book five, he nearly drowns trying to escape from a cavern to get away from the murderer and a group of bloodthirsty vampaneze. Exhausted and freezing, he considers his options, which are few. At the end of book five, the vampires were planning to kill him off. Now he's got to worry about that, while keeping himself safe from the traitor in the last book, and trying to protect his friends from the vampaneze who wait in hiding. This sixth installment of his story as a vampire's assistant is thrilling and adventurous.
Darren's having a heck of a time. Having just watched a friend be murdered by another friend in book five, he nearly drowns trying to escape from a cavern to get away from the murderer and a group of bloodthirsty vampaneze. Exhausted and freezing, he considers his options, which are few. At the end of book five, the vampires were planning to kill him off. Now he's got to worry about that, while keeping himself safe from the traitor in the last book, and trying to protect his friends from the vampaneze who wait in hiding. This sixth installment of his story as a vampire's assistant is thrilling and adventurous.
April 15, 2015
It loathes me to give any book of Darren Shan’s a rating lower than three stars, but here it is. The Vampire Prince follows in the footsteps of Trials of Death where it takes place immediately after the preceding book. After Darren has witnessed Kurda Smahlt’s betrayal, the murder of Gavner Purl, and jumped into the river which surely would mean death for him. Now that Darren is the only one that knows of Kurda and the vampaneze he must make a tough decision: let the vampaneze attack his comrades or return to Vampire Mountain and be executed for his failure in the Trials.
Plot
The Vampire Prince was boring, I’m sad to say. The first half of the book is taken up with Darren being nursed back to health by the wolves from earlier and him getting back to Vampire Mountain. There is fighting but it isn’t described in the same way that Shan usually describes the action scenes. It was more like an overview of the fight than the reader being in the fighting with Darren. The rest of the book is the vampires dealing with the traitors and dealing with the funerals of the fallen vampires. There’s also a lot of talk about the morality of the vampires and their ways.
The Vampire Prince isn’t the most exiting book in the series thus far. At the very least the reader learns a bit more about the oncoming threat of the vampaneze.
Writing
Since not much action happened in The Vampire Prince the writing was quite dull. Shan isn’t the best at writing scenes where there is not much action going on. I’m thankful that he doesn’t drag it out, though, as the books can be finished within hours, easily. Something I noticed in this book was when there finally was an action scene it wasn’t written as well as previous action scenes. I said in my review of Trials of Death that I liked the way Shan wrote the action scenes, especially between Darren and the boars. But the action scenes in The Vampire Prince felt like they were written with a lot less energy.
Characters
The biggest complaint I have about the characters is that they are, more or less, background characters in Darren’s story. You can’t really have a good story with only one character in the front lines. Darren was that character and all the other characters were weak in their development. There were characters that were killed that I didn’t feel all that sad about because Darren’s relationship with them wasn’t written with them being as close as he probably meant for it to be. And it’s not like Shan can’t write good friendships. Darren and Evra had a very good friendship that was very real, and I would have been sad right along with Darren had Evra died. The characters are interesting, yes, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that they aren’t well developed.
Things I Didn't Like
I didn’t like how Arra Sails was treated by the book. The absolutely silly reason why there aren’t that many vampire women is a part of my problem. Another part is how Arra is supposed to be portrayed as this strong woman but she’s really not. We’re told Arra is the best at the bars yet a young half-vampire nearly beats her and then she’s beaten by a pacifist of a vampire! And there is no reason for what happened to hear at the end of the book. You could have easily switched Vanez and Arra and it would have been better because at least the one female vampire that Shan actually gave a name to wouldn’t have succumbed to the fate that she did.
The only other things I didn’t like was about how Kurda went about things and how the reader’s supposed to regard the vampaneze. Why didn’t Kurda tell the Princes about the Vampaneze Lord as soon as he found out? I understand that the vampires would have wanted to go out and kill every vampaneze but that wouldn’t have made much sense seeing as how the Vampaneze lord is still currently human. The vampires would be looking for a human, not a vampaneze. I feel like this whole situation could have been easily avoided and it feels like a major flaw in the plot.
There’s also the way that Shan wants us to regard the vampaneze. The vampaneze kill every time they feed and they feed more than vampires. Why are we as the readers supposed to feel any sympathy for them at all and agree with Darren’s views on them? This is a problem I always seem to find with authors that write about vampires and have them as their main characters. It’s the same problem I had with the readers expecting to sympathize with the vampires in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. We’re supposed to be on the side of the vampires who are being hunted down and killed even though they too, like the vampaneze, kill when they feed. The vampaneze kill when they don’t have too, and we know this because vampires don’t need to kill. Why should we care about the vampaneze?
Diversity
There’s a character who is completely blind that doesn’t consider himself useless. That’s pretty great seeing as how a lot of portrayals of characters becoming blind are with the character thinking they’re no good any more. That’s about it, though.
Overall
I thought The Vampire Prince was dull in comparison to the rest of the books. It’s almost on par with Tunnels of Blood, where nothing happens for the majority of the book. Shan needed to make the relationships between the characters stronger. I hope the next book brings more action because this book was severely lacking.
Here is a link to my notes.
Plot
The Vampire Prince was boring, I’m sad to say. The first half of the book is taken up with Darren being nursed back to health by the wolves from earlier and him getting back to Vampire Mountain. There is fighting but it isn’t described in the same way that Shan usually describes the action scenes. It was more like an overview of the fight than the reader being in the fighting with Darren. The rest of the book is the vampires dealing with the traitors and dealing with the funerals of the fallen vampires. There’s also a lot of talk about the morality of the vampires and their ways.
The Vampire Prince isn’t the most exiting book in the series thus far. At the very least the reader learns a bit more about the oncoming threat of the vampaneze.
Writing
Since not much action happened in The Vampire Prince the writing was quite dull. Shan isn’t the best at writing scenes where there is not much action going on. I’m thankful that he doesn’t drag it out, though, as the books can be finished within hours, easily. Something I noticed in this book was when there finally was an action scene it wasn’t written as well as previous action scenes. I said in my review of Trials of Death that I liked the way Shan wrote the action scenes, especially between Darren and the boars. But the action scenes in The Vampire Prince felt like they were written with a lot less energy.
Characters
The biggest complaint I have about the characters is that they are, more or less, background characters in Darren’s story. You can’t really have a good story with only one character in the front lines. Darren was that character and all the other characters were weak in their development. There were characters that were killed that I didn’t feel all that sad about because Darren’s relationship with them wasn’t written with them being as close as he probably meant for it to be. And it’s not like Shan can’t write good friendships. Darren and Evra had a very good friendship that was very real, and I would have been sad right along with Darren had Evra died. The characters are interesting, yes, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that they aren’t well developed.
Things I Didn't Like
I didn’t like how Arra Sails was treated by the book. The absolutely silly reason why there aren’t that many vampire women is a part of my problem. Another part is how Arra is supposed to be portrayed as this strong woman but she’s really not. We’re told Arra is the best at the bars yet a young half-vampire nearly beats her and then she’s beaten by a pacifist of a vampire! And there is no reason for what happened to hear at the end of the book. You could have easily switched Vanez and Arra and it would have been better because at least the one female vampire that Shan actually gave a name to wouldn’t have succumbed to the fate that she did.
The only other things I didn’t like was about how Kurda went about things and how the reader’s supposed to regard the vampaneze. Why didn’t Kurda tell the Princes about the Vampaneze Lord as soon as he found out? I understand that the vampires would have wanted to go out and kill every vampaneze but that wouldn’t have made much sense seeing as how the Vampaneze lord is still currently human. The vampires would be looking for a human, not a vampaneze. I feel like this whole situation could have been easily avoided and it feels like a major flaw in the plot.
There’s also the way that Shan wants us to regard the vampaneze. The vampaneze kill every time they feed and they feed more than vampires. Why are we as the readers supposed to feel any sympathy for them at all and agree with Darren’s views on them? This is a problem I always seem to find with authors that write about vampires and have them as their main characters. It’s the same problem I had with the readers expecting to sympathize with the vampires in The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. We’re supposed to be on the side of the vampires who are being hunted down and killed even though they too, like the vampaneze, kill when they feed. The vampaneze kill when they don’t have too, and we know this because vampires don’t need to kill. Why should we care about the vampaneze?
Diversity
There’s a character who is completely blind that doesn’t consider himself useless. That’s pretty great seeing as how a lot of portrayals of characters becoming blind are with the character thinking they’re no good any more. That’s about it, though.
Overall
I thought The Vampire Prince was dull in comparison to the rest of the books. It’s almost on par with Tunnels of Blood, where nothing happens for the majority of the book. Shan needed to make the relationships between the characters stronger. I hope the next book brings more action because this book was severely lacking.
Here is a link to my notes.
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