Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase

 

Today's post is on Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase by Hideyuki Kikychi. It is 178 pages long and is published by Dark Horse. As it is the third novel in the series, it would be helpful to have read the first two novels for the worldbuilding. The cover is an illustration of Mayerling and his lady love. The intended reader is someone who likes dystopian, horror stories. There is mild foul language, discussion of rape, and violence in this novel. The story is told from third person god perspective, moving as the story does from one character to the next. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- When a desperate village elder learns that his daughter has been abducted by vampire Noble Mayerling, he turns to the mysterious Vampire Hunter D to save her. However, with not just his daughter's life but her very soul in peril, her father also enlists the aid of the notorious Marcus clan, a dangerous and renegade family of Hunters as infamous for killing off the competition as they are for getting their man.
D's task becomes ever-more daunting as the fleeing Mayerling bends an entire village to his will, enlisting a horrific cadre of human/monster half-breeds. Powerful as D is, can he prevail against the force of sheer numbers of such diabolical adversaries?

Review- An interesting third novel in this series. D is hired to save a young woman who was 'taken' by the local Noble vampire, Mayerling. But the woman was not taken, they are in love, and she ran away with him. But once D takes a job, he will see it through, he also has some competition in a clan of hunters called the Marcus'. They are brutal group that mistreats their own and they do worse to those in their way. Plus Mayerling pays for supernatural bodyguards. This is novel has a lot going on with a large cast of characters but with the narration style it is easy to keep track of who is who and what is going on. D is more like he was in the first novel, just a hunter doing a job, but again there is a feeling of a time shift towards the future, not just in how D is, but how the world is. The reader sees so much of the world and from the strange being that live in it now. This is a very good novel and I enjoyed it. 

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this novel with my own money.