Cirque Du Freak The Vampire's Assistant Book 2

      Darren Shan has been blooded as a vampire and knows he must feed on a human of die in a couple weeks. He refuses because he is still part human being a half-vampire and doesn't want to give up his humanity. He doesn't know where he belongs until Larten Crepsly, also known as Vur Horston, sugests the Cirque Du Freak. Larten is a red haired vampire with a scar on the left side of his face and has made Darren his half-vampire assistant. After joining the Cirque Du Freak Darren meets two new friends. Evra Von, a snake boy preforming at the Cirque, and Sam Grest a boy from the nearby village. Later Darren, Evra, and Sam go exploring and meet a new friend, R.V. R.V. is an enviromentalist. Darren get R.V. and Sam tickets to the show and R.V. tries to free the wolf-man after the show. R.V. ends up running away in terror missing his arms from the elbow down. The wolf man gets free and to cut to the chase eats most of Sam. Darren drank the rest of Sam's blood (Drinking the rest of someone's blood keeps part of their soul alive in the vampire). The wolf man is caught and returned to the Cirque. Darren stays a few more months then leaves for his next destination, Vampire Mountain.