People say that if you never give up, you get the things that you want. In this book, it is just like the main character Darren, he saved the vampires. The author made the readers like me feel empathy in the actions the main characters does, he flashes back to the past, and in the thoughts, he think about what happened till now where he is standing at. It was a really long story, and reminds the reader how much they read. It is a really fun book, full of adventures, and everyone should try it out!!!

I personally like the Cirque Du Freak series. The series gets better and better every book of the series. The sixth one is one of my favorites, it tells of how Darren's life is changing more and more since being blooded by Mr. Crepsley. The author is in my opinion one of the best that I have ever read a book from. Darren Shan and Alexander Gordon Smith are two of my favorite authors, but after reading the sixth book, Darren Shan is leading in the poles on who's the better author.

The plot of the book is to have Darren expose the Vampaneze in the bowels of Vampire Mountain and expose Kurda for fraternizing with the Vampaneze with out the approval of the Vampire Princes. The book starts out with Darren being nursed back to full health by the pack of wolves that followed him and Mr. Crepsley and a fellow General of Larten's to the mountain just days before.

The main characters of the book are Darren, Mr. Crepsley, Harkat, Princes Ares, and Prince Arrow. The last book left us with Darren going down the burial stream that runs under the Mountain. Darren was being tossed around like a rag doll and nearly drowned. Shortly after exiting the stream he is reunited with Streaker and Rudy, who were the wolves that traveled with the vampires to the mountain just days before.

The time is modern times. I say this because it talks about how the trek to the mountain is supposed to be made with no electronic devices and should be made by using his vampire senses.

If I had to recommend this book to anyone, it would probably be to males older than 14 and higher than grade 8. This is because older kids can handle profanity a lot better than a younger kid can. This book also has profane language and situations not suitable for anyone under 14 years of age. It was a good book.

I give this book a 3 because it was a bit confusing for me until i kept reading and reading the pages also what was confusing to me was when he ran away home and the problem he ran away is because a friend betrayed him also he is half human and half vampire. Also when is said there friend went looking for him i was so confused like which friend is it the bad friend that betrayed him or his other friend that know hes a vampire. The good things that i like about this book is if anyone give you a question to answer for the boom you can answer it. For example when a question is giving what is the tone and where is the setting at what does the setting give then tone/mood.And in this book the setting is in a very dark place and a spooky place. The mood/tone is gloomy and scared/fearful.

This is another of the volumes where there wasn't a whole lot going on. I mean, the books are short enough that they can be read quickly, and it's all stuff that's important to the overall arc, but it wasn't nearly as exciting as the last book.

It didn't help that we had to take our time with this one, because the library went into COVID lockdown, and we weren't sure when we would be able to get the next book. We're back on track now!

The book carries on from when Darren Shan was falling down a huge waterfall in Trials of Death, and he must make his way back to Vampire Mountain, while avoiding Kurda Smahlt and his accomplices. He runs into a pack of wolves, Streak and Rudi - the two wolves he knew from an earlier encounter. These wolves help him make his way back to Vampire Mountain safely. He must find a way to inform the vampire princes (the leaders of the vampires) of Kurda's treachery before they crown him a fellow prince. Kurda's treason includes hiding vampaneze inside the mountain, preparing to murder the princes and attempting to gain control of the Stone of Blood (a powerful stone that can be used to locate any vampire who has touched it) with which he would force the vampires to join the vampaneze and become a single clan once more. However, with Seba Nile's help, Darren reveals Kurda to the Princes in the nick of time. The vampaneze are found and savagely murdered. Arra Sails is badly wounded during the fight with the vampaneze and dies. Vanez Blane loses his other eye, and Darren kills two vampaneze, but is sickened by his own battle lust. Even though Kurda's intentions were pure, the Princes give him the most terrible punishment possible: execution by impalement of stakes in the Hall of Death in the manner of a traitor and shameful cremation, so that he may not reach paradise. During his trial, Kurda explains his plans to the vampires, and they see that he wasn't selfish, so they no longer hate him. Darren is supposed to be executed for fleeing the Princes judgment, but the Princes, wanting to hold true to traditions and spare Darren, decide that he must be made a Prince, thereby putting him above the laws which demand his execution.

Aku mulai lelah dengan Gunung Vampir, tapi aku tebak tidak lama lagi akan terbebas dari sana. Sekali lagi aku merasa hukum vampir sangat konyol. Klimaks yang kuharapkan malah tidak terlalu mendebarkan walau memang memilukan. Akhir cerita membuatku ingin melempar buku, tapi kalau dipikir-pikir, itulah akhir terbaik yang bisa ditulis. Inilah saat kita berpisah dengan para vampir; Seba Nile, Kurda Smahlt, Paris Skyle, Mika Ver Leth, Arrow, Vanez Blane, Arra Sails dan lain-lain.

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Waspadalah terhadap orang yang kaupercayai. Bahkan orang yang kauanggap sahabat dekatmu pun mungkin mampu mengkhianatimu. - Halaman 7

Sangatlah mudah untuk menutup mata terhadap pengkhianat dan mengenyahkan mereka dari benak kita. Tapi itu berarti tidak memedulikan akar masalah kita dan membuka celah untuk pengkhianatan lainnya. Pada kenyataannya, dunia yang berubah akhirnya telah menandai kita, dan kita harus berubah jika ingin bertahan di dalamnya. - Halaman 178

This is probably one of my favorites of the series. Dareen has come a long way and I am so proud

Following on from where the last book ends, this one sees Darren on a mission to inform the vampires of current events.

As with every book in the series it is well written and perfectly paced, keeping you interested from start to end. I also recommend you be ready for some unexpected events (although if I say anymore, even if I was to direct you as to which emotions you’ll need to keep an eye on, I would be saying too much and giving things away).

Didn't expect this to go the way it did in all honesty. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Darrens determination, spider army, Gavner revenge, sadess of friends passing. Arra death surprised me. Always respect an author who can pull of killing a good character and here he is doing 2 in the short space of time.

Mr Tiny has a lot to answer for, the vampaneze prince I have a hunch, but who knows... Waiting for the next installment...

So far I've just been listening along as my bf listens to this series and I haven't really cared about it, but lowkey this one got kind of good after the slow start

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!

I found the sixth book in the Cirque Du Freak series, The Vampire Prince, a little more fulfilling than the past books.

Darren, just barely surviving from the mountain stream, is found by the wolves he had named Streak and Rudi in the fourth book. They nurture him back to health, and he sets off for Vampire Mountain again in order to warn the Vampire Princes of Kurda Smahlt's treachery.

Unfortunately, after the vampires arrest Kurda and attack the vampaneze, they find out that Kurda's motives were nobler than they first thought -- he was trying to combine the vampires and vampaneze in order to avoid war with the Vampaneze Lord, who HAS been realized.

Kurda says that the Vampaneze Lord is a human who has not been blooded yet. I had a sudden thought: "I bet it's Steve." About halfway through the book, I had gotten distracted for a few seconds, thinking about how I should probably expect Steve to make a reappearance; and then, as Paris was saying something during Kurda's trial, that's when I got that crazy idea. I don't know if I'm right yet (I only just finished the book this morning, and I haven't started the seventh), but I'd be almost willing to bet, and I'm no gambler.

Seriously, remember how Crepsley drank Steve's blood in the first book, but spit it back out, saying it was evil? And how Steve knows about vampires, and how he has a pretty good reason to want to seek revenge? And how author!Shan made it clear that Steve is going to be a recurring character? The puzzle's falling into place. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'll look like an idiot to those of you reading this who have finished the series. It's just a guess, but one I'm willing to bet on.

Anyway, on to Darren's problems -- he may be a sudden war hero, but that does not erase his failure in the Trials of Initiation. The Princes do not want to kill him, but they don't want to change the law, either. So what do they do? They put Darren "above the law"... and make him a Vampire Prince!

I can honestly say I almost cried in this book. The cremations, Kurda's execution... and most of all, Mr. Crepsley's reaction to Arra Sails's death. I think I really did cry then.

However, that's one of the things I like about author!Shan -- his lack of hesitation to kill off characters. As said in the August 2010 issue of Otaku USA, killing off major characters is one of the gutsiest moves a shounen manga can pull. I know that this isn't a review for the manga adaption, but Cirque Du Freak is still a shounen series, manga or not. The fact that he can kill off characters so easily means he's got guts, and I find that extremely appealing in an author. (Not that I enjoy character deaths; it's just... I dunno. Hard to explain.)

Anyway, I found the writing slightly painful to read in one or two places, such as after character!Darren killed the first vampaneze and was saying, "I hated myself for what I'd done"; I dunno, it just sounded a little unnecessary. It probably would have sounded better as part of Darren and Seba's conversation after the battle with the vampzneze.

Regardless, I give this book five stars. Best one so far.