The final book of this series killed my love for this series. There are many endings of shows and books that have endings reviled by fans (Sopranos finale, Game of Thrones finale, etc.), but I can never really hate a finale of anything quite like this series. Until this book came out, I had reread every book in the series multiple times. Even in life, I had never been disappointed by any sort of ending for anything really. This book was unfortunately the first book that made me go "huh, some media can be utter trash".

While my remembrance of what actually happened in terms of plot details is a bit spotty, the parts I hate still sit with me. Faced with an impossible outcome to his final fight, the utterly trash deus ex machina ending for the main character and his resurrection as the actual author of the series was so awful, it stuck with me to this day, 16 or so years after its release. The whole just became some weird power fantasy of the author, who I guess wanted to be a vampire, but not in a very violent way (but that may be because in a YA book series, having the main characters be extremely brutal and unromantic wouldn't make for a popular read).

I'm sure some fans of this series will be like "oh no! it totally makes sense! You're forgetting plot points and character building! You're just a hater!", and sure, yes, I could be being unnecessarily harsh, but I cannot emphasize more how utterly crushed and disappointed by an ending of a book series numbering in the double digits.

I will truly never hate any ending of any book/show/film quite like this ending. I wish I could give it less stars. I despised the ending so much, I decided to take time out of my day to review the final entry of this YA series I hadn't read since middle school just to emphasize my hatred of this series.

Read the series if you want, but be prepared for a stupid, pointless ending.

This the final book in the Cirque du freak series. In this book Darren and Vanca finaly have the final battle against steve lenord. It turns out darren and steve are both sons of Mr.Tiny. Darren kills steve but doesnt want to be the lord of the shatows so he then kills him self. He is then in the lske of soles for 1000 years and human are gone. it is the age of dragons and mr.tiny then makes darren a little person and sends him back to the time where he and steve first see cirque du freak. He makes sure darren doesnt have the same fait as before and he gets his life back. He aslo gives his diary to mr tall so he can give it to the normal darren.

I can make a text to text connection to this book. this book is about a clan of vampires fighting for their exestince. The book twilight is also about this but it is nowhere as good as this book. They are both vampires but Cirque du freak is an amazing series.

I would give this book 5 stars. it is a fast pace action filled book. it keeps you sucked in. Ihere is always another supprise around the corner just as good as the last one in this book. I would give recomend this book to all ages.

I made it! I finally finished this series and I am full of sorrow. I grieve for all the hours wasted reading these books when I could have spent that precious time reading the works of talented writers. I'm quite surprised that J.K. Rowling put her stamp of approval on these books. Sure, the first few were good, but then this series just turned to rubbish.

If you are suffering from a bout of insomnia, pick up this book. Within minutes of reading, you will be sound asleep. I got a good nap while trying to read ten pages of drivel as Darren reflects on and on about his life. Sons of Destiny is a very weak conclusion to a series.

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.

No, I won't accept this!

I really don’t know what to think about the ending of this series, but it was definitely not what I was expecting! I really need to reread this to fully absorb all of the information.

Love when the first book I read for the year is underwhelming, it means it can only go up from here! <3

This is the finale of Cirque du Freak. Unfortunately I never finished this series in middle school so I can't compare my adult thoughts to my pre-teen thoughts on this finale. But as an adult, I didn't like the weird tongue-in-cheek wink we got for the end. It was a bizarre twist for an ending and an almost copout silly conclusion but it is what it is.

Definitely think younger audiences will still have fun with this series but what a stupid ending.

FINALLY!! finished this book series!!

I saw the movie that they created from the series over 10 years ago and have been wanting to read this book series since. I picked this up at the beginning of grad school in hopes to get back into reading for enjoyment and to finally knock off this big book series off my TBR shelf. After a few years, I finally pushed through and finished the series.

overall, I think that this would’ve been a really fun book to read when I was in elementary or middle school and I wish I had read it back then soon after I’d seen the movie. I think that it brings up a lot of ideas about friendship and choices and destiny and fate, and I think that this book series overall was a really good read.

I do think, however, that the book series maybe could’ve only been about eight books, as there were, some filler moments to some of the books.

also, as I’ve said in almost all my reviews, I think that this would be an amazing TV series if it was done like how “a series of unfortunate events” was done.

After such a long journey, I feel robbed of a good ending!

First review: 2 ⭐
نمیدونم چه احساسی باید داشته باشم واقعا...


Second review: 3.8 ⭐
خب راستش فهمیدم چه احساسی باید داشته باشم D:
راستشو بخواین، خوندن این مجموعه یکی از بهترین انتخاب‌هام بود. یادمه وقتی دو ماه پیش همینجوری دلم خواست برم کتابفروشی یه چیزی برای خودم بخرم، دیدم قفسه بزرگسالش رو تخلیه کردن برای تعمیرات و ناچار شدم بین کتاب‌های نوجوانش بگردم. همینجوری میگشتم و میگشتم که چشمم خورد به سیرک عجایب. از اونجایی که با یکی از دوستام همیشه این ایده 'سیرک عجیب غریبا' تو ذهنمون بود، اسمش جذبم کرد و با دیدن اسم نویسندش کتابو خریدم. تا حالا هیچ کتابی از دارن شان نخونده بودم و خیلی خوشحال و شاد و خندان رسیدم خونه و دو هفته بعدش کتابو شروع کردم...
جلد یک تموم شد، غرغرای من پیش دوستم که چرا دو تا جلدشو با هم نگرفتم شروع شد. خلاصه که وسط این غرغرام دوستم اومد گفت همه جلداشو داره و بام قرض میده و منم از خداخواسته ازش گرفتم و تو دو سه هفته، کل مجموعه رو تموم کردم.

اولاش برام یه جوری بود داستانش. خیلی نوجوانانه بود و اینو فکر کنم هزار بار هزار جا گفتم. ولی از جلد دوم به بعد دیگه نتونستم خودمو کنترل کنم که ادامش ندم. باهاش هیجان‌زده شدم، ذوق کردم، غافلگیر شدم، ناراحت شدم و و و. باهاش زندگی کردماااا. مطمئنم سال‌ها بعد قراره با خودم بگم یاااادششش بخییرررر پاییز یازدهم نشسته بودم با استرس کنکور و قلمچی و درس و امتحان نهایی اون مجموعه دارن شان رو میخوندم (مطمئن نیستم بگم یادش بخیر ولی شاید واقعا خوب بگذره کسی چی میدونه.)
خلاصه که، یکمم از کتاب بگیم.
جذاب بود. واقعا. از خوندنش ابدا پشیمون نیستم. اتفاقاتی که میفتاد منطقی بودن (در عین فانتزی بودن کتاب) و نگم براتون از باشعوری آقای کرپسلی =) عشق منه عشققققق.
راجع به کل مجموعه چیزی نمیگم ممکنه اسپویل بشه پسسسسس بیاین راجع به پایان بحث برانگیزش صحبت کنیم.

پایان غیرقابل‌پیش‌بینی (درسته که این همه نیم‌فاصله داره-؟) و هوشمندانه‌ای داشت. هر چند که اولش بهم حس "و سپس از خواب بیدار شد" رو داد. ولی چند روز که گذشت و بهش فکر کردم، دیدم نه. بهترین راهش بود. اصلا چجوری میخواست تمومش کنه جز اینجوری؟ باحال بود دیگه.

آقا اینکه اسم خودشو گذاشته بود روی شخصیت اصلی خیلی باحال بووودددد (و بعد از پایانش باحال‌ترم شد) ایده زیبایی بود خوشمان آمد

Es difícil puntuar cuando una saga de doce libros llega a su fin,
en general ha sido un libro lleno de intrigas, sorpresas, giros, etc...pero que deja un gusto amargo en la boca, aunque sé porqué MR. DESTINY ! uno de los peores villanos, retorcido, egocéntrico, odioso bla bla bla...algo bueno? NADA!!! no puedo explicarlo bien, pero sin duda es una saga recomendadísimo! y que tiene libros buenísimos, que los últimos dos...ojalá no hubieran existido.

This book was one of the biggest let downs of my reading life. A twelve book series, with the first eleven books never disappointing me for even a moment, and then this. The description and the rich world that Shan created are still there, so I do not want to discredit his ability to create an amazing, intricate world and to help his readers visualize it with rich detail, but the "twist" was far to predictable and the ending was a bit of a cop-out.

In this book, one of the many characters was named Desmond Tiny. We were supposed to be very surprised to find out that Darren and Steve, the protagonist and antagonist respectively, are the sons of Des Tiny when the title of the book is Sons of Des(Tiny)...really?

The most important thing I learned from this book, is to have a great deal of respect for my readers and to not spoon feed them the final twist.