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Wolf Island (The Demonata) | 
| Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 145
Media: Hardcover
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 0007260407
EAN: 9780007260409
ASIN: 0007260407
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Very good book November 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wolf Island is a very good book. Full of twist and turns and ended on a cruel cliff hanger.
Grubbs Grady and his friends must fight hordes of demons and werewolves. Grubbs tries to hold his inner wolf in. He and his friends try to survive and escape. This story is at the same time of the seventh book, showing what Grubbs was doing while the famous magician Bernabaus fought his battle, (which is in book seven.)
Good for 12+. There is less action than in the previous books, but a better plot in this one.
After the boring, out of sync rubbish of Demon Apocolypse, and the uneventfull mess of Death's Shadow Mr.Shan is finaly back October 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Now, befoe you read this and start shouting 'IDIOT' i would just like to say this, i AM a HUGE Darren Shan fan, but lets face it, Demon Apocolypse was utter garbage, it strayed from his style with bad writing and the stupidest plot twist of all time.
And Death's Shadow wasn't much better, it was uneventfull and provided next to no story advances (impart from the death of a certain character), suffice to say his last two were horrible weak points.
But now we have Wolf Island, a story running parralel to Death's Shadow (cliche or what?), but hell is it GOOD!
The story advances in leeps and bounds, making up for the past two rubbish books, the characters feel more like what they did in the first four books (thankfully), making the veterans of the series relate and like them again.
The writing style is back to, in Demon Apocolypse and Death's Shadow he seemed to of been suffering from a horrible writers block in which he had to force story out, but it's clearly been kicked out o the way now.
It's smooth, violent and gritty, just how it should be.
In two words: Much better
Arooooow! Wolf Island Rocks October 10, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Another great installment from the horror master Darren Shan. Most of the action takes place on Wolf Island as the title suggests but moves the story on in terms of the genesis of the main character Grubbs Grady. Its fast paced and grisly but fun at the same time. It sets up nicely for the finale next year - I can't wait to see how all the loose ends tie up.
 More like 4.5/5 or so but whatever October 2, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a VERY good series, definately one of my favourites, if not the favourite, and it hasn't finished yet.
So, here we have the 8th instalment of this epic story, beginning slightly after the end of no. 6, Demon Apocalypse, and once again it is told from the point of view of Grubbs, which is good because he's the main main character but we havn't heard from Kernel since book 2, so I very much hope the next book will tell his story in the latest turn of events.
The book gets straight into the juicy demon-slaying action that is spread around these books *yay* but it does take a while to re-cap and such when we already know what happened, but I suppose dear Mr. Shan has to remind everyone in case they forget, good good. And Then a scene is repeated from book 7 0_o like whaaat, I found that pretty weird but it was nessesary, and cleverly written from the two points of veiw.
Now I shant say any further into the plot incase your reading this before the book, all I'll say is that some is predictible and it seems to be going smoothly but as it is in all Darren Shan books there's some very nice twistyness and disabling of the cliche 'hero' figure and a slight *anything is possible* feel. I like this very much. Plus OMINOUS PROPHECY TIME WOO Thank you Darren.
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