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It's a new age vampire book. Even though it is new, it doesn't focus around sexy vampires or love stories. Its about a boy who sneaks out of his house to go to Cirque Du Freak with his best friend, and while he is there they see an act where a man plays the flute to control a spider. The protagonist (I can't remember his name, so I will refer to him as fluffles) is persuaded by his friend to go backstage to look at the spider some more. While they were down there, however, fluffles's friend is bitten by the spider, and the owner (who is another main character who's name I cant remember, so he shall be prospero) says that he can work out a deal for the antidote, the deal is for fluffles to become prospero's assitant and become a vampire. Now fluffles, being the good-hearted person that he is, agrees to exchange his life for his friend's. Prospero then turns fluffles into a vampire in a new way, by slitting both of their fingertips and pressing them together so blood is exchanged without leaving a heavily bleeding wound.

Fluffles and Prospero then go around having adventures and fighting in the vampire  wars between the vampires, who believe in not killing humans when they drink, and the vampaneze (I wish I made that name up, he legitimately chose that name) who kill when they drink, which has caused their skin to turn purple (didn't make that up either). As stupid as the vampaneze sound like, they provide a great storyline. Fluffles does actually fall in love with a girl he meets earlier in the storyline, but at the time, because he was bitten when he was sixteen and this series has vampires age one year to every human ten, he looks like a fifteen year old while she is a thrity year old, so it makes for a hilarious love story. Plus this dude is severly during his trials, and is left with no hair, and has been scarred during his epic battle scenes, so he is far from the gooey love vamps that you see elsewhere.

is severly burned during his trials*

Oh yeah thanks. I have read them all. I forgot that he named the main character  after himself.

Great series, adds that little bit of horror that makes it great.

Yeah, he was obviously the bad guy, that was the only thing I didn't like about his character.

Then don't, its your loss, well that and posting pointless comments.

This series is good until the last book. I strongly recommend that you don't read these books. They are amazing, then the last book just ruins the entire series. It literally makes the series not worth reading, plus the concepts and vocabulary are that of middle school reading. In fact, I would have laughed at these books in middle school haha.

Yea, I have no idea why he would willingly end his series that way.

"Oh, the villian dies. But the hero dies too! But then he doesn't die because his magic friend saves him! Ooh, ooh, and then it turns out that there are monsters from multiple dimensions trying to get into our dimension and Mr. Tiny is actually trying to keep them out! But wait, the hero isn't really lives, because he's reincarnated so he can save his old self,which dissolves himself in the process, so he dies and he lives!"

I was severely dissapointed in the last book.

The hero doesn't really live*

All I can say is that I would have preferred a better ending, I'm not the writer of the story so it's not my responsibilty, and it's been a few years since I read the series, so I can't remember all of the details needed for a great ending. Simply saying "You come up with a better idea" isn't an actual argument, it's a challenge. I personally think he simply wrote himself into a hole due to the content of the previous books, and realized he needed to let it die quickly rather than draw it out.

And technically it never solved the problem, Darren (character) simply had a "Oh well, at least it's not happening me" mentality when he made himself not become the vampire prince.

And even though I'm ripping on the series here, I LOVED the series when I was reading it (Junior high era, at least), and I still think he did a good job untill the end, and a few of his moves were kind of predictable if you read a lot or had experience writing before.

happening to me*

I meant to, but never actually did. Is it any good? He's a pretty good horror writer, and I'd look forward to readin his next book.

You're WHAT!?!!? Not that I'm prejudiced against blind people or anything; it's just, how can you read stuff?

Legally blind perhaps? But if that's not the case, I would really be interested in how you can read what turns up on the computer, or even your own typing. Do you have an audio program that says what's on the screen? I doubt that would be the case because it would read the entire thread, not just the one post you want to hear, so I'm out of ideas.