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Original Title:	Birth of a Killer
ISBN:	0316078638 (ISBN13: 9780316078634)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Saga of Larten Crepsley #1

Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley #1) Hardcover | Pages: 261 pages

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Title	:	Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley #1)
Author	:	Darren Shan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 261 pages
Published	:	October 5th 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (first published September 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Horror. Fantasy. Young Adult. Paranormal. Vampires

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The highly anticipated prequel to the New York Times bestselling Cirque Du Freak series!
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 flies into a rage that the foreman wouldn't survive. Forced on the run, he 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, Larten takes it.
This is his story.

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Elements and style : In this prequel to The Saga of Darren Shan, Darren Shan is more serious than he is in the saga of Darren Shan, using the more somber fell to reflect the protagonist, Larten Crepsley. He also provides a feel of connection to the normal series by introducing characters that appear in that series, and showing how they knew/know Larten Crepsley. He uses an older style of speaking, showing how this is 300 years in the past, and every once-in-a-while provides a flashback to when

[Written on mobile, apologies for any mistakes] Darren Shan is well known for his The Saga of Darren Shan series that gripped the hearts of countless young adult horror lovers and many more people worldwide. One of the main characters in this series is Larten Crepsley, Darren's mentor in the world. After the completion of this series, Shan came out with The Saga of Larten Crepsley, the backstory of one of the most beloved vampires in young adult literature. In Birth of a Killer, we're introduced

This book is called The saga of Larten Crepsley: Birth of a killer. This book is written by Darren Shan, and it is a backstory book about Darren Shan's vampire master - Larten Crepsley. I chose to read this book because it tells us more of the universe of Darren Shan, vampires, and danger. The book starts off with explaining Larten's life when he was a young kid, about 13 years old. The similar way the Darren Shan series started. And then a bit further into the book, after some explanations and

Whoa. THAT was amazing. I got it yesterday and finished it last night at about midnight. Gosh, the ending was SO suspensful.Birth of a Killer is the first of four book in a prequel series to the awesome Cirque Du Freak. And it's all about Larten Crepsley. Many centuries ago, he worked as a child laborer with a dozen or so of his brothers and sisters. But his best friend was his orphan cousin, Vur Horston. After Vur does something wrong in the factory they work at, the boss kills him as an

When I heard that "The Saga of Larten Crepsley" was coming out I was excited because I really enjoyed reading "The Saga of Darren Shan". This is the prequel to Darren Shan as it is about Darren's master Larten Crepsley. It follows his beginnings of becoming a vampire and the life he led. We come across many familiar characters from the first series, and even though this one is set many years before the first series we all know vampires live for a long time so it wasn't surprising to see names I

Bloodshed and Murder. The reason Larten had lost all hope on humanity. Larten had changed the second he saw his cousin Vur murdered in front of his eyes. Anger had rushed into his soul and he took the kill to avenge his best friend. Realising what he had done young Larten had abandoned his entire life and ran. Stopping at a nearby cemetery he meets Seba Nile who introduces him to the vampire clan and teaching him the vampire ways. Throwing all humanity that had been known to him and never being

Larten Crepsley never planned to go on a blood thirsty rage streak and kill his boss at the age of 11. It all kind of just... happened. When his boss killed Larten's dearest friend and relative, Vur Horston, all he could think of was the rage that had overcome him. Having killed the boss in front of the other children that had been working to support their families in his poor neighborhood, word spread like wildfire, all heck broke loose, and soon enough, the whole village was hunting him down