But I eventually adjusted to it and even came to appreciate the fact this might be a gateway book for younger readers to seek out the original stories if they were curious enough. Dracula – the first vampire who was thought to have died over 500 years ago – is rising and when zero hour comes he will be able to reign chaos over the world. As this wikia was abandoned by its founder on June 28, 2012 and was only adopted around three years later on June 12, 2015, a lot of information is lacking on this wikia. There is plenty for a boy to like in this book - there is action, blood and gore, weaponry, some familiar characters from several beloved gothic horror stories, interesting historical flashbacks.

Said reviewer, at the end of an otherwise cracking review, questioned whether Will Hill's treatment of Stoker and Shelley in their respective flashback scenes showed disrespect to these two authors. For example, when vampire die, they just don't crumble into a pile of dust, they freaking explode into showers of blood. Not content to have his young hero battling all kinds of evil, he makes sure that the reader truly believes in the world he has created. In the secret supernatural battle that's been raging for over a century, the stakes have just been raised – and they're not wooden anymore.As well as great back story, Will Hill is also highly skilled at other aspects of the craft of writing.

Department 19 will sadly not achieve this broad spectrum of appeal as it is certainly not suitable for younger kids and may create a few premature heart attacks amongst the blue-rinse brigade – it is after all an action horror story with many a gory moment, and any movie made would certainly not get a PG rating. In this third installment of the epic Department 19 series, Will Hill delivers higher—and sharper—stakes than ever before. Jamie is brought to Department 19, where he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more than a century ago by Abraham Van Helsing and the other survivors of Dracula. He lives in east London with his girlfriend, where he splits his time between staring out of the window and staring at a computer screen.The Goldsboro exclusive edition of "Empire of the Damned" by Jay Kristoff will feature block sprayed.