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    <body><![CDATA[  this was a good boob its about a boy named Darren Shan and he is half vampire and half human. he needs to pass five scary trials to prove that he can be into the vampire clan. if he fails he is going to need to go to the halls of death. where you have no choice but to die. the only problem is that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59168944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The main character, Darren Shan takes part in the Trials of Initiation. The trials are a series of tasks that vampires used to have to do to prove themselves to the Princes. Now it is only used for vampires who want to become a general or that want to show their strength, but Darren Shan has to endu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78181067">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Setting: Vampire mountian is mainly the setting where it takes place inside is dark,rainy and spooky.<br/>Main characthers: Darren Shan is age 13 and is impatience he is always in every scene basically.<br/>Harket Mulds is the kind unknowed aged little person (Demon)he always stays with Darren to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38573852">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Trials of death is the 5th part of the series written  by Darran Shan. In this book hakrat is envloled in a huge way when he saved  darran from what may be a painfull death in the 4th trail. Mr crepsly doesnt play much of a role in this because he is doing other things but stays with darran to make ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78263121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this was a really quick read, it <em>felt</em> much, much longer. One would think that the Trials of Death would be exciting since Darren's life depended upon winning them, but I found myself zoning out and thinking of things to check off my to-do list. I only got really interested at the very end. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79557732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[    This book is about a kid name Darren who needs to prove him self as a vampire to the vampire princes. while on the test. Darren does test when he gets hurt rely bad and is not able to go ahead on the next test but is forced to go on. <br/>    I could make a connection to the world because some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50387342">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book I read of Shan's writing 1 book with 2 books back-to-back: &quot;Trials of Death&quot; and &quot;The Vampire Prince&quot;, books 5 and 6 of the Cirque du Freak series. &quot;Trials of Death&quot; in particular, reminded me somewhat of &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6.Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire_Book_4_" title="Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</a>&quot;. These b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36796503">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an nice step back into Darren Shan's world of vampires. <br/><br/>Most of the books in this series take right up where the one before it stops. In this one we are with Darren at Vampire Mountain as he faces the Trials of Death to prove that he is worthy of being a vampire. There are 5 tri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35107253">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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