The Trials of Death
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基本信息·出版社：HARPER COLL CHILDREN
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2001年10月
·ISBN：0007114400
·条形码：9780007114405
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·丛书名：The Saga of Darren Shan
·外文书名：死亡审判(小说)(达伦?山传奇系列)
内容简介 The trials: seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampire is with you. Darren Shan must pass five fearsome trials to prove himself to the vampire clan - or else face the stakes of the Hall of Death. But Vampire Mountain holds hidden threats. Sinister, potent forces are gathering in the darkness. In this nightmarish world of bloodshed and betrayal, death may be a blessing. . . .
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 作者简介 Darren Shan grew up watching old Dracula movies and reading spooky comics, which were the inspirations for this series.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 媒体推荐 书评
From School Library Journal Grade 4-7-This is the fifth novel in the continuing saga of the youthful half-vampire assistant to Larten Crepsley, a full vampire. Crepsley has brought Darren to Vampire Mountain to undergo the Trials of Death, an elective ritual periodically undergone by vampires in order to bond with the clan and prove their worth. As a half-vampire, Darren is in more danger of failing the trials than the others who usually participate, but he is determined to go ahead. The penalty for failing without dying is execution. In the background a new conflict looms, involving the vampaneze, purple-skinned killers who resemble vampires but who are nothing like the beings whom Darren has come to respect and admire. When it appears that he will not survive the trials, his vampire friends urge him to escape. Escorting him out through the mountain''s underground tunnels, they run smack into an incoming vampaneze invasion. In the final pages, the plot and action finally pick up to fever pace as Darren is caught between invaders, defenders, and possibly a traitor in the ranks of the faithful. Characters are mostly one-dimensional, and the plot plods along until the final conflict heats up the action. Although the story stands on its own, there isn''t much reason to read this one aside from following the series.
Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PACopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
