I decided this year to read a bunch of Frankenstein books for Halloween. I reviewed all of these Frankenstein books during this year’s AWESOME-tober-fest (here, here and here). However, I actually read and finished all of those books at the end of August and early September.
So, to change things up, throughout September and early October I switched genres and read a few action books like Star Wars: Republic Commandos: Hard Contact by Karen Traavis, The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and Area 7 by Matthew Reilly. Well, when I finished those, I still had a few weeks of October left and I wanted to read some creepy and/or scary books. There have been a bunch of ads for the new movie The Vampire’s Assistant starring John C Reilly and I thought they looked pretty good. I’ve had my eyes on the book series the movie was based on for a while so I decided to give the first book a try (It’s currently on Book 12 which may be the last). So I put the first book, Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare on my Paperbackswap.com Wish List and it came to me pretty quickly. So I started reading it.
The movie takes it’s name from the second book, but I read somewhere that its story comes from the first three books. The first three books comprise a loose trilogy, as do each successive three books so that within the 12 book series there should be 4 trilogies. Each tied into the main story, but each having their own story arc.
Cavalcade of Awesome 