Saga of Larten Crepsley Birth of a Killer, Book 1, (Paperback)

from book_zone

Most readers of The Book Zone will not need me to tell them that Birth of a Killer, the new book from Darren Shan, is actually a prequel to his fantastically successful Saga of Darren Shan series. One of the key characters in that series was Larten Crepsley, the vampire that first blooded Darren ...

from AngelaCinVA

BIRTH OF A KILLER: THE SAGA OF LARTEN CREPSLEY by Darren Shan, Little, Brown & Company, October 2010. "Are cobwebs a treat where you come from?" So begins Larten Crepsley's meeting with the mysterious Seba Nile, a meeting that sets Larten on the path to becoming a vampire. How did Larten come to ...

from ElizaJane

Reason for Reading: I love Darren and read each new book as it comes out. Larten Crepsley is a major character in Shan's "Cirque Du Freak" series and this book, first in a proposed 4-book series, tells his life story starting briefly with his pre-vampire childhood and continuing on through the ye...

from jhughes84

I received this book as an ARC from "Little Brown books for Young Readers" Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan tells the tale of Larten Crepsley, a young boy who is living in awful conditions, has to fight for his food, and has a horrible sorry excuse for a person as a foreman. One day at work, his ...

from BookSpot

Birth of a Killer is the first in Shan's new four book series The Saga of Larten Crepsley. The new series is a prequel to the Cirque du Freak series. Tracing the early years of Larten Crepsley this first book introduces us to him as a young boy working in a silk factory with his cousin. After a t...