I have never read a Sherrilyn Kenyon novel, and they may be great, but the paranormal romance genre holds no appeal to me. Certainly, her stuff has its fans, so when I learned it had been adapted to manga format in THE DARK-HUNTERS: VOLUME 1, I figured it couldn’t hurt to try it out.
It did.
A former Greek god named Kyrian is now a vampire hunter. He meets a girl named Amanda who also hunt vampires, yet she is not an immortal like he is. In fact, she’s an accountant whose whole family casts spells. Neither character is introduced well, nor are their backgrounds fleshed out beyond toe-depth.
Kyrian and Amanda meet cute when they get trapped in a room together by a vampire who vows to kill Kyrian. Escape, fall in love, fighting, etc., all ending in a cliffhanger. Exactly what and how it all happens throughout still baffles me, because the writing is rushed and clumsy. I’m assuming it makes perfect sense to readers of Kenyon’s series, which currently numbers 17. To this newbie, it was a frustrating introduction; I read and re-read several pages to get my bearings and see what I had missed.
Just my time, apparently. That’s through no fault of Claudio Campos, whose art is fine. —Rod Lott
