One of our Books of the Year 2013.
I know this popular author of zombie adventures is much loved by a huge quantity of teenage fans but I’ve never read him. However, many devoted fans do claim this is his best book. I was completely hooked from page one and continually surprised by each twist, each unlikely revelation and each unexpected development. A very clever book indeed where an American thriller writer in London gets infatuated by a gangster’s wife. The discovery of their attraction would mean death for both, so maybe the boss should die first. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Definitely my book of the month.
The Lovereading view...
Supernatural goings on, dangerous London mobsters and an illicit affair are the heart of this dark, paranormal thriller for adults from the number one bestselling Young Adult author (Cirque Du Freak). Ed Sieveking is an American author looking for inspiration for his next book in London but inadvertently gets involved with the wife of a crime lord - soon his real life is resembling the fictional ones of his books. Full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing, and on the edge of your seat.
Darren Shan on his new book...
"I never meant to be a children’s author. It wasn’t part of the “grand plan” that I had when I was younger, planning to take the book world by storm. I had always enjoyed reading children’s books, and thought I might try to write one at some point, for fun, but I never saw it as a career move.
As a teenager I wrote grisly, morbid books intended for an adult audience. This continued into my early twenties. I was very prolific, writing five or six different books a year. I toyed with different genres and styles, but the one thing all those books had in common was that they were written for adults.
Then Cirque Du Freak came along. The idea of writing a vampire book from a child’s point of view intrigued me, and since the main character was a boy, I decided to aim the story at a younger audience. I enjoyed the experience, and so did millions of readers around the world, and I got happily sidetracked. But I never ditched my adult stories. I knew I would return to that world one day and pick up where I had left off. The question was when.
I’ve chosen to resurrect my adult career now because it seemed like a natural extension of my last few children’s books. The Thin Executioner and my four-book series The Saga of Larten Crepsley were written for children, but were very adult in tone. Having slipped back into that zone, I decided it was time to fully test myself on the adult front again. The first result is Lady of the Shades, a haunting thriller about a writer with a guilty secret. In many ways I’m like Ed, the writer in the book, in that I also have a secret, which I’m going to share with you today: I never meant to be a children’s author…"
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