Summary of "Cirque Du Freak"

I just finished the book "Cirque Du Freak- The Vampires Assistant" which is the second book in the "Cirque Du Freak" series. I thought the book was really good and I can't wait to read the next books. There are some things that you need to know that happen in the first book.
In the first book there is a boy named Darren Shan and he has a best friend named Steve Leonard who gets tickets to see a freak show. When they go, Steve recognizes one of the performers (Mr. Crepsley) who turns out to be a vampire. Steve asked Mr. Crepsley to turn him into a vampire, but they found out Steve's blood was evil, and well, that was the end of that. But while they were there, Darren stole Mr. Crepsley's spider and it bit Steve. To save Steve, Darren went to Mr. Crepsley who was willing to help Steve if Darren would become a half vampire and be Mr. Crepsley's assistant. Darren said okay and they were off into the world of vampires together.
Well, in this book, Darren and Mr. Crepsley had spent about two months together. Darren didn't like to drink human blood since he was half human but he could only go so long only drinking animal blood, so he needed human blood, or he would die. Darren could walk around during the day since he was half human, but Mr. Crepsley had to sleep during the day since he was a full vampire, so Darren spent many lonely days all by himself. When Darren shared this with Mr. Crepsley, Mr. Crepsley got a bright idea, "Why don't we go back to the Cirque and you can have friends that are more like you, then, you won't have to be so lonely!" So they did that and it worked, Darren made three new friends, Evra Von who was a snake boy, Sam Grest, who was human, and R.V who was a nature freak (his name is Reggie, but he is a vegetarian so people called him Reggie Veggie, but he didn't like that so he likes to be called R.V). The whole time they were at the Cirque Darren was getting so weak he was so close to dying from lack of human blood. Sam wanted to join the Cirque so Darren asked Mr. Crepsley if he could and Mr. Crepsley said he could if he could turn him into a half vampire too. Darren didn't want that to happen to Sam so he made up a lie to scare Sam away. Well, there is a performer, the wolf man and he is half wolf and half man. The wolf man is very dangerous and will eat you so the Cirque has to keep him in a cage. Well, when R.V found out about this, he wasn't happy because he believed it should be free. So, one night during a performance, Darren saw a shadow near the wolf man's cage and it was R.V. trying to free the wolf man. He didn't get it all the way before the wolf man bit both of his arms off, so R.V. ran into the woods and Darren didn't see him for the rest of the book. Well, the wolf man got the chains off the rest of the way by himself and was after someone. Darren found their bag on the ground and it belonged to Sam! The wolf man was after Sam! Darren ran after them to help Sam. When he found Sam they hid from the wolf man. The wolf man knocked Darren out and was about to eat eat until Sam came and tried to fight him off. When Darren woke up he looked over and the wolf man was eating Sam. Mr. Crepsley came and knocked the wolf man out, but there was nothing he could do to save Sam. Mr. Crepsly told Darren that when someone was about to die, a vampire could drink their blood and kill them (before they died from the other thing) and that would keep part of them with the vampire. So, Darren drank Sam's blood until he died and then they buried him. The Cirque had to go on their way but Darren would never forget his best friend.
This relates to me because I have made sacrifices for friends like Darren did for Steve and like Sam did for Darren. Also, I have made wrong choices that made stuff happen that I wish didn't, just like Darren accepted to be Mr. Crepsley's assistant, but that caused him to lose his family and friends.
This book might seem like one of those corny kids books, but its really not. Its a really good book for kids about our age. I recommend this book to anybody because it was really good and interesting.