marcus sedgewick

Anyone else read this? It won the Teenage Booktrust Prize a couple of years back. This is old school vampires and the walking dead. Gypsies and superstitions, murder and mystery set in the great forest of central Europe. I'm finding it a good read and certainly those who are into reading...

The Book of Dead Days is a fast-paced, gripping page-turner. The story takes place in the 18th century in a nameless European city. Valerian, a magician who performs magic tricks in a theater for a living, has a servant boy named Boy whom he took under his care from the streets several years...