New in October (Part 2)

Here are the rest of the books coming out later this month!

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner 

(October 12)

Heroes of Olympus Book 1: Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
(October 12)

Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences by Brian Yansky 

(October 12)

Adios, Nirvana by Conrad Wesselhoeft
(October 25)(Debut!)

The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Birth of a Killer

The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Birth of a Killer 

by Darren Shan 

New York: Little Brown and Company

ISBN: 9780316078634

272 pages

4 out of 5

Before Cirque Du Freak...

Before the war with the vampaneze...

Before he was a vampire...

Larten Crepsley was a boy.

As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman killed his cousin as an example to the other children.

In that moment, young Larten flew into a rage that the foreman wouldn't survive.  Forced to live on the run, Larten now sleeps in crypts and eats cobwebs to get by.  And when a vampire named Seba offers him protection and training as a vampire's assistant, he agrees.

This is his story.

After the incident in the factory, Larten Crepsley is a lost, scared kid when Seba finds him.  He is given the choice of joining the vampire in his travels, and possibly in his lifestyle, and Larten accepts. He cannot return to his home and family and finds a purpose as a vampire's assistant.  What follows is the story of how Larten Crepsley the boy becomes Larten Crepsley the vampire in Cirque Du Freak.

I devoured this book.  It's well-written, fast-paced, and engaging.  In this first installment, Larten doesn't seem nearly as nasty as he does in the first Cirque du Freak novel, but he has quite a story to tell.  Fans of the series will enjoy learning of Larten's beginnings.  I think the series will also find new fans through this book.  As someone who has only read the first of the original series, you can start in either place.  In fact, reading Cirque Du Freak after Saga of Larten Crepsley will give you something to do while you wait for book two.

This title is available October 5, 2010.

New in October (Part 1)

So this time I'm just covering titles from September 30 - October 7 because I have a lot of titles for October.  I'll do another post for the rest later in the month.  Hope you see something you like!


Dust City by Robert Paul Weston
(September 30)

  

Havoc by Chris Wooding 

(October 1)

  








Annexed by Sharon Dogar
(October 4)

Behemoth by Scott Westerfield 

(October 5)

Halt's Peril by John Flanagan 
(October 5)

Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan 

(October 5)

DC Super Heroes: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book by Matthew Reinhart
(October 5)

Bloodthirsty by Flynn Meaney 

(October 5)

  

New in September!

Payback Time by Carl Deuker (September 6) 

Crazy by Han Nolan (September 13)

  

King of Ithaka by Tracy Barrett (September 14)

 

Z by Michael Thomas Ford (September 7)

The Genius Wars by Catherine Jinks (September 27)