This book certainly gave me a lot of the hallmarks of that story/world, but I think I'm going to need to get my hands on a physical copy of the next in the series to have a better idea if this is actually good or I just want it to be good. My introduction to this world was through the 2000 film "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" and that a pretty indelible impression. Some of the panels were too small to really see what was going on and some of the art was seemingly just brush strokes back and forth across the page to show movement, but that really means it was just a panel of nothing. I blame the eReader for that, but it really did color my enjoyment of this. I read this through the Overdrive site/app and the formatting was terrible. I am slightly conflicted with this one and some of it isn't the books fault. It only sometimes cares that there is futuristic technology in a world where forms of magic also exist. It's juggling a lot for reasons I don't totally understand. He kicks ass and takes names and somehow this is both a Western, Gothic, neo-futuristic story. Villagers cower in fear, hoping and praying for a savior to rid them of their undying nightmare." Enter a Vampire Hunter, known as D. "Once bitten by a Nobility, one is cursed to become a member of the undead. Mutants and a race of vampires known as the Nobility rose out of this as the ruling class. So there are several conceits out of the gate: It is 12,090 A.D., there was a gigantic war that basically blocked out the sun.
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