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The first half of the book is weird af.

Getting Darren to go back to school, with both Darren and Mr. Crepsley easily succumbing to this whole bizarre situation without even a fight, is just plain absurd.
Then there’s this stupid romance between Darren, who is still a 15 year old kid (at least in the human eye), and Debbie- a 30-year old teacher- is so so fucked up.

The fight scene at the end is the only redemption this book has, and even it is not that good of a redemption. The whole thing lacks suspense, action, and has too much weird talking and im-letting-you-go-so-we-dont-die shit.
4 against 20, and did the author really allow them to just escape like that. Wow.

Darren Shan now has to go to a school, he is a man now, but looks like a kid because of his vampire blood. He wanted to go to the city so he can kill the Vampaneze lord, since Mr.Tiny told them to follow their heart, so they went to Mr.Crepsley old town. He was a sleep one morning and he heard a knock on the hotel door. It was a director from a school, they made Darren have to go to school. But, Darren didn't get mad at where he had to go because he had his ex girlfriend as the english teacher! So, Darren went to school while Mr.Crepsley went searching for the Vampaneze. Darren got private lessons with Debbie and explains everything about him being completely honest. Then, Darren heard about the Vampaneze in the TV and it killed someone in the same school as Darren. Darren then knows its the Vampaneze, he went to guard his friends house and caught the Vampaneze. He tails the Vampaneze with his group and it leads to their base, but ended up as a trap! This book is about confidence, belief, and hope

3,5/5. Not my favorite of this series! A series I deeply love but this one as some... wouldn't say bad, but definitely not great moment. The beginning as me really worried about the way it might goes. A very casual teenagers school day to day, that goes around for the first 50 pages more or less. And then it pick up some action so it was okay on the long run. It also bring a lot of old characters back in Darren life which is good, but also bring a lot of small emotional/love moment that I'm not really sure about. And finally we do get some action and some back stabbing. So really a good things that always come with a lower ones. The overall story line of the series didn't evolve much in this one and we just not go forward enough for me. I was a bit grumpy reading through it so that might have affect my judgement a little, just want to be honest here. It was alright, certainly continuing the series but probably the lowest one so far.

Wow! So many twists and turns! This was definitely a fun installment to the series! In this book, Mr. Crepsley and Darren return to the full vampire’s hometown after they hear of an abundance of Vampaneze murders.

Allies of the Night
Author: Darren Shan

"Indecision is the source of chaos."

Darren is still trying to track down the Lord of the Vampanese when he suddenly receives help from an unexpected source...

Meanwhile, a series of unexplained events occur, further delaying his mission. Who is trying to thwart him?

I found this part the least interesting book in the series.This was partly because there was a lot of repetition in the storyline, which made some chapters seem like unnecessary additions.

Trigger warnings:
Death, violence, murder, grief, blood

I truly adore this series! Try as I might, I continue to make predictions as I read and by the end of the book I realize my wildest guesses cannot come close to the plot twists Shan writes. If you haven't started this series yet, you need to!

بالاخره طلسمِ دوستاره‌ای‌ها شکسته شد و این یکی بهتر از آب درآمد.
هرچند قبلاً هم گفته بودم، این اتّفاق می‌توانست بعد از «دخمۀ خونین» بیفتد.
به نظر می‌رسد بعد از این همه صفحه‌خوانی، هرطور شده می‌توان کم‌وبیش با شخصیّت‌ها هم‌ذات‌پنداری کرد و کمی خود را در فضایِ داستان یافت.
به امیدِ این‌که در قسمت‌هایِ بعدی شان حرفش را پس نگیرد. :)

Last half of this book sped up and set some pace. Ready to lead us into the next with a faster pace than the start.

Love Debbie being brought into this. Saw Steve coming unfortunately but RV didn't even click with the vampaneze with no hands... Great touch.

Aunque Darren ha vivido varios años y enfrentado grandes peligros, no es lo suficientemente maduro para tratar algunos problemas. Vuelven personajes de libros anteriores como aliados, y también como enemigos.

Casi olvido un detalle divertido y algo tedioso de este libro: ¡Darren regresa a la escuela!

Spoiler: falta poco para las revelaciones más inesperadas, atentos a todos los detalles desde aquí.

Torn between 2 and 3 stars. The second half was interesting with a potential turning point for the rest of the saga, though (knowing enough of what's supposed to happen) only a minor twist if you can even call it that. But first, what an odd premise for the middle book of a trilogy. The first book established that a hunt for the vampanese lord and led to an interesting conclusion. Book 2 starts with the trio of hunters settling in a village and...Darren has to go back to school? Now it's a book about a 30-something half-vampire with the body of a 15 year old who hasn't been in school since he was 13, and the struggles...not to mention the struggles of meeting your old love interest who has aged in real time. This reminds me of Mockingjay, where the author took a fine two books of a trilogy and then put the main character completely out of the action for 80% of the book. (Note to self: Revisit old review of Mockingjay and make sure it isn't rated too high.)

Thankfully, I'm already 30% done with the next book and it is already MUCH better. As a single entry, this was very weak. The series as a whole keeps moving along quite nicely.

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Mentre Vancha si trova alla Montagna dei Vampiri, Darren, Harkat e Larten tornano alla città natale di Larten per via delle numerose vittime di Vampaneze. Qui, i tre cercano assiduamente i loro nemici... Fino a quando un ispettore arriva al loro Hotel e comunica loro che Darren deve tornare a scuola. Da qui, le cose vanno sempre peggio.

Man mano che avanzo nella saga, la storia si fa sempre più buia e i pericoli aumentano.
I Vampanaze stanno diventando più aggressivi, e per via degli ordini del loro Signore stanno lasciando da parte il loro onore. Una cosa piuttosto strana, ma capibile: Mr. Tiny ha detto loro che il Signore dei Vmpaneze li avrebbe portati alla vittoria. Ancora non sappiamo con certezza chi è, ma... Insomma, ho i miei sospetti.
Per ora questo secondo tipo di Vamp non mi piace: conosco poco della loro cultura, e sono poco impressionata dalle loro mosse. Poco onorevoli, codarde.
I Vampiri rifiutano di abbandonare l'antica via anche contro nemici che non la rispettano. Mi sento molto vicina ai Vampiri, al loro senso dell'onore e alla loro cultura. Penso che sia una delle "popolazioni" più interessanti che ho trovato nelle mie letture.

In questo ottavo volume ritroviamo personaggi che non avrei mai voluto rivedere, in particolare Hooky, un personaggio che abbiamo incontrato nel secondo libro. Mi è sempre sembrato un po'... sospetto. Non voglio fare spoiler, ma se avete letto il secondo volume capirete.
Ritroviamo anche Debbie, che sinceramente... Non mi sta molto simpatica. È cambiata molto dal terzo volume. Ora è una donna adulta, mentre Darren sembra ancora un quindicenne. Ma a tratti l'ho trovata davvero stupida, anche se devo dare atto del suo coraggio.
E, dulcis in fundo, ritorna anche Steve, l'ex migliore amico di Darren, di cui non abbiamo saputo più nulla dopo il primo libro. È un falsissimo stronzo, passatemi il termine. Non mi piace affatto.
Ovviamente Larten, Harkat, Darren e Vancha non sono cambiati affatto dall'ultimo volume, quindi è inutile parlarne...
Però ho trovato davvero divertente vedere Darren avere a che fare con ragazzini quindicenni a scuola. Mi sono sembrati un po' stereotipati, devo dire. Almeno, io a scuola non ne ho mai incontrati. Da noi il bullismo era più... subdolo.
C'è, poi, un personaggio che mi sta molto a cuore di cui, in poche righe, si parla. Ciò che gli accade non è affatto positivo, ma non voglio fare spoiler. Dico solo che ci sono rimasta davvero malissimo.

Allies of the Night si legge bene come tutti gli altri volumi della serie, è un inglese piuttosto semplice, capibile da chi si appresta a leggere in inglese. Solo, avrei dovuto dirlo prima, non prendete lezioni di grammatica da Darren (il personaggio, non l'autore): fa degli errori molto comuni tra i ragazzini.

Ovviamente, continuo a consigliarvi questa saga, e spero di poter leggere presto il prossimo volume. Anche se ho paura di quello che mi aspetta.