This book is the fifth instalment of Darren Shan's vampire saga (see post about the first for explanation of my treatment of this series post-wise).
Having arrived and settled at Vampire Mountain, things are not all hunky-dory, as it is soon decided that Darren, for a variety of variably-legitimate/odd reasons, has to undergo the Vampire Trials, which are extremely dangerous. And so it is that he undergoes a horrendously intense training regime, and all his friends are extremely worried about him. Then the trials - he has to dodge a bunch of spouts of fire coming out of the floor, crawl through a cavern filled with super-sharp stalactites and stalagmites, fight a wild boar, and to top it all - contend with the arcane politics of the vampire Generals themselves...
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