What did you guys think of the last book?
Hi! I'm so happy to have found this community, as I've rediscovered my love for this series because of the movie coming out, and also because I *finally* finished the series a few weeks ago (I had never finished the last book, kind of put it down after the climactic bit and never picked it up again until now, since I wanted to know the end before
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About him passing the burden onto some other kid - maybe it makes sense, because in doing so, he gives the world a chance for those journals to be published? Maybe if he just went on living that life he would have just died without anyone knowing the truth of what happened, etc etc, and... I don't know, I kind of justified it by saying that this way, those events still get to unfold, but in addition to that, the journals get published.
and I felt all tingly and sad and nostalgic when I read "The End. The Saga of Darren Shan" and the dates at the end!
I love this, I feel like it really makes it feel like the author Darren Shan LOVED writing this series. It was totally his baby.
and I really hope that he will be reunited with Mr. Crepsley in Paradise, and Shancus, even though now the way things are the earth-bound Mr. Crepsley won't remember him.
I WAS SO SAD. I tried to justify to myself that they would remember each other in Paradise because... the events happened and when Darren went back in time, his soul was split? Which was why he was able to exist as the Little Person and as his younger self. Maybe the splitting of the soul meant he was able to still be... the Darren that we knew throughout the series? And maybe it meant that the soul of Mr. Crepsley that went to Paradise was also split because of the time-traveling. This is mostly becaus I'm a sucker for happy endings. Oh well, it's all kind of ambiguous anyway. Especially with the part where he says "Mr. Crepsley waiting..." It's so sad!
that scene was very well done....
Oh God, this scene was SO well done. So incredible! I kept seeing it as a movie playing in my head - and just saw it as the exact same thing from the first book but from a completely different vantage point. It would have been cool if the actual movies could have been filmed this way. I love the narration where he talks about Steve in this scene, how much he came to really understand Steve's character. In addition to that I really liked the way it was written when Steve killed Shancus.
At first, I thought it was almost a pointless death, when Steve killed Shancus, like it was for shock value or whatever. But Darren starts talking about how Steve does it almost just to see if he's "okay" mentally or that he's not alone in how evil he may have become. Because if Darren kills his nephew in retaliation, it's like saying that Steve isn't the only one who's like that. And somehow Darren understands all of this but is almost unable of doing the right thing and is too emotional to make the right decision. The only reason he doesn't kill Darius is that he's made aware of the fact that he's his nephew at the last second.
ajfdskafjl;kalsdfjlskjfla ANIMORPHS. My favorite series EVER. I hated the ending though. The ending of Cirque du Freak, I was totally okay with. Thank you so much for saying this: In any case, I think the ending marks this series apart from other children's/YA series, just as I felt the end of Animorphs did for that series....
Completely agree.
aaaarhgg so long again. Sorry :(
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YES that was another question I had about the ending...so if there's a Mr. Crepsley waiting in Paradise, what happens when the earthly Mr. Crepsley who is no longer involved with Darren dies? If Earth-Crepsley dies nobly and gets to go to Paradise, would there be two Crepsleys chilling out in heaven? Or would the ~*Paradise Version*~ of Mr. Crepsley not be complete until the split part of his soul that remained on earth joined him up there too? fdsfgs *head explodes*
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