Cirque Du Freak Series

You'll go on a journey with Darren Shan as he goes from timid and shy teenager to confident Vampire Prince. As the series progresses all the way to the 12th book, you'll find yourself wanting to finish one after another.  They do have the Vampires Assistant out on DVD now and I have to say the book, as usual, is 10 times better than the movie.  I like looking for a variety of vampire books because everything is so centered around twilight.  You know the whole lovey dovey thing.  This is more action and fighting and twists and turns.  And I have yet to find another book even close to this series.  By the end of the series I was literally yelling at the book because the ending throws you for a complete loop!  If any of you have read books by Darren Shan, you'll know that his books are pretty dark.  I loved the writing in this series and decided to try another of his series, The Demonata Series.  Word of warning, The Demonata Series is very graphic and bloody.  I literally couldn't get past the first chapter.  I'm not all about the blood and guts and gore, but if you are you shouldn't definitely continue onto The Demonata Series once you've finished the Cirque Du Freak series.  They have absolutely nothing to do with eachother so you don't need to read one series before the other.  The Demonata series has to do more with, yep you guessed it, demons and darker creatures of the night.  Creepy.