Darren Shan is most famous for his saga of vampires starring the characters Darren Shan and Larten Cresply. In Birth of a killer Larten Cresply becomes a vampire when he meets the mysterious vampire named Seba Nile. The story begins with Larten fleeing from his village to escape an angry mob where he meets Seba and agrees to be his assistant.
Although the book is enjoyable Shan seems to have missed some parts out as after each part of the book he skips about 15 years. There is no bit with Larten as a half vampire or when he becomes a full vampire it skips straight to him having fights at vampire mountain . Also it does not feel like a Darren Shan novel as it is in the third person when he usually writes in the first (except in The Thin Executioner).
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