Whilst I have already broken my record for books read in a year with the Night Watch trilogy I came across this and read it the other day.

I don’t know the author but I believe he wrote this some time ago and has rewritten it (sort of directors cut) and republished. The author is a well known fantasy writer aimed at the children’[s market.
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There will be an interview with me in the latest issue (dated May 2008, issue number 169) of SFX, which goes on sale on Wednesday, April 9th. You can check out the web site here (though the interview will not appear online): http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=latest_issue

I have read all of Shan’s book. Therefore buying this book was going to happen no matter what. As the first adult book I have read by Shan I was not sure if i was going to like it. I loved it. The story is gripping and although predictable in places, kept me reading to the end and left me wondering what’s going to happen. The nameless city Shan has created is full of life and full of secrets. 5 stars….especially if you’re a shan fan.

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/procession-of-the-dead–the-city-trilogy-book-1

THE FIRST Darren O’Shaughnessy novel came out in 1999, subtitled The City: Book One, but there was no sequel: by the following year the writer had become Darren Shan, author and eponymous hero of a best-selling vampire saga for younger readers. Now, “extensively revised,” his debut reappears as Procession of the Dead by D.B. Shan. The new byline is an uneasy compromise: the publisher’s desire to keep the bestselling “brand” in conflict with a recognition that this explicit, brutal fantasy was not written for children.
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