Vampire Hunter D, Hideyuki Kikuchi
Vampire Hunter D, Hideyuki Kikuchi
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Vampire Hunter D
Mysterious Journey to the North Sea: Part One

Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi, Kevin Leahy

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/18/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel.

Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him?

About Hideyuki Kikuchi

Hideyuki Kikuchi is a Japanese author famous for his horror novels. His most famous works include the Vampire Hunter D series, Darkside Blues, and Wicked City. He has been compared to both Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft. Kikuchi was born in Choshi, Japan, on September 25, 1949. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University and was trained as a writer by famed author Kazuo Koike. His first novel, Demon City Shinjuku, was published in 1982. Kikuchi became close friends with writer and director Yoshiaki Kawajiri during his adaption of Wicked City and the two have since collaborated on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and the OVA of Demon City Shinjuku.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on September 18, 2022

After his climactic battle with Count Magnus Lee, D travels to the snow-shrouded village of Tepes where vampires that can walk in broad daylight have begun to prowl the perimeters. Turns out a certain lord of vampires has been performing some incredibly dark experiments in a mountain-based secret la......more

Goodreads review by Taralen on March 27, 2014

Raiser of Gales just doesn't hold up to the first book of the series. While darker and more complex, the story is full of confusing passages that will most likely force you to reread what you just read. I'm not sure if Kikuchi did this on purpose since a continuous conflict in the book is that the c......more

Goodreads review by F.D. on June 24, 2021

Volume 2 was certainly much different then the first. We get to see the softer side of D’s cold hearted intrigue. More of a mystery to solve than a vampire hunt, he encounters many different adversary’s of the physical and metaphysical. You do get to learn a little more history about the series and......more

Goodreads review by Oliver on May 06, 2024

Enjoyably weird and messy......more

Goodreads review by Risa (Clazzi) on May 14, 2018

DNF at pg.170 Like where do I even begin to express how upset I am at this book? I've read the first book and I LOVED the movie, but this made me stop dead and question 'what is this?'. To be frank most of the book was boring scene to boring scene with some great combat in the middle. Lina was a very......more

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