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Lord Loss (The Demonata Book 1) Kindle Edition
Grubbs Grady has stiff red hair and is a little big for his age, which means he can get into R-rated movies. He hates history and loves bacon, rats, and playing tricks on his squeamish older sister. And he’s about to learn three mind-blowing things:
- The world is vicious.
- Magic is possible.
- Demons are real.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publication dateAugust 1, 2008
- Grade level9 and up
- File size791 KB
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- ASIN : B000SEWISU
- Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (August 1, 2008)
- Publication date : August 1, 2008
- Language : English
- File size : 791 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 244 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #143,966 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author
Darren Shan's real name is Darren O'Shaughnessy. Although he is Irish, he was born in 1972 in London. He moved to Limerick in Ireland with his parents and younger brother when he was six, and has lived there ever since.
Darren always wanted to be a writer. He bought his first typewriter when he was fourteen and never looked back. He enjoyed his first taste of literary success at fifteen, as a runner-up in a television script-writing competition for RTE in Ireland, with a dark comedy script titled A Day in the Morgue.
Darren was seventeen when he finished his first (unpublished) novel, and wrote lots more unpublished novels over the next several years. All of his early books were adult-oriented. Although Darren liked the idea of writing a children's book one day, he considered himself an adult writer first and foremost, and his initial breakthrough was with an adult book, in 1999, titled Ayuamarca (since re-released as Procession Of The Dead).
In January 2000, Darren's first children's book, Cirque du Freak, was published. The opening book in a twelve book series about vampires (titled The Cirque du Freak series in the USA, but known as The Saga of Darren Shan in the UK and the rest of the world), it attracted rave reviews and an ever-growing army of fans known as the Shansters!
He followed up his vampire saga with The Demonata, a series about demons. Running to ten books in total, The Demonata cemented Shan's place as the Master Of Children's Horror.
Then came The Thin Executioner, a one-off fantasy novel, which Darren has cited as his favourite out of all his books.
Next he wrote The Saga Of Larten Crepsley, a four book prequel series to his original vampire saga, spanning two hundred years in the life of the title character.
Darren then turned to zombies, in the twelve book Zom-B series, which was both his grisliest series (detailing a zombie apocalypse) and his most political (calling attention to the dangers of not taking a stand against racism and fascism). He also wrote a short, tie-in ebook called Zom-B Circus.
There was a very successful manga adaptation of Shan's Cirque Du Freak series, drawn by the Japanese artist, Takahiro Arai. It was originally serialized in Japan, but English-language omnibus volumes are now on sale in the USA and UK.
His most recent series is Archibald Lox, an urban fantasy series. It was spread over nine short books, which were later collected into three large trilogies.
In addition to writing for children, Darren has published a number of books for adults, starting with The City Trilogy, comprising Procession Of The Dead, Hell's Horizon and City Of The Snakes.
He followed up the trilogy with a one-off supernatural thrilled called Lady Of The Shades, only available in the USA as an import.
After that he started publishing his adult books under the name of Darren Dash. His Darren Dash books span many different genres -- to date has has tackled horror, science-fiction, thrillers, and even a Shakespearean-inspired Comedy!
By 2023, Darren's books were on sale in every continent, in 40 countries, in 32 languages, and have been children's bestsellers in America, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and other countries. The books have topped adult bestseller charts in Hungary, Japan and Taiwan. In total, Shan's books have sold over thirty million copies worldwide.
The movie rights to Cirque Du Freak were bought by Universal, and the first movie (which combined elements from the first three books in the series) was released in October 2009, starring newcomer Chris Massoglia as Darren Shan, along with a wide array of established stars such as Josh Hutcherson, John C Reilly, Salma Hayek, Willem Defoe and Ken Watanabe. The movie was called Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. It was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in February 2010, and is usually available stream on at least one of the major streaming platforms.
A big film buff, with a collection of more than four thousand movies at home, Darren also reads lots of comics and books, and likes to study and collect original artwork, especially comic art and impressionist and post-impressionist art. Other interests include long walks, watching soccer (he's a Tottenham Hotspur and Ireland fan), listening to pop and rock music, theatre, worldwide travel, sampling the delights of both gourmet cuisine and finger-licking junk food, and dreaming up new ways to terrify his readers!
Darren spends most of his time in Limerick, Ireland, with his wife Bas and children Dante and Gaia.
Darren's web site: https://www.darrenshan.com
Darren's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/darrenshanofficial
Darren's Twitter page: https://twitter.com/darrenshan
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Darren gave the reader a lot to think about when reading this book, and I must say that there was quite a bit. From beginning to end, there was no dull or unnecessary page that didn't paint some picture in my head, from the events that unfolded to the people and places themselves. It was well written to make you emerge into the world of "The Demon at a #1: Lord Loss" and see from a 1st person view of the protagonist as they made their way through the book; not missing an important detail that would leave one breathless and on the edge of their seat.
This book was a lovely trip that one could say had "so much imagery and felt far too real." Darren included necessary amounts of visionary properties that didn't tell too much or too little of what was currently present (i.e. every detail of any given thing/person or left out important information). What was told in this adventure served purpose to the conclusion.
I was left on a beautiful ride that I kept me wanting more from this title and I was given everything and more.
The reason for the 4.5 rating is because there is a syntax error that separates a sentence in a place that makes 2 incomplete and awkward sentences.
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