12,090 A.D.: It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires – and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves. Every village wants a Hunter – one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them.
This world is such an engaging one to read. It is set in the future, but due to the influence of the Nobility it has become this weird combination of high technology in an extremely gothic european setting. The author does a good job of getting this across too, it feels very gothic, yet you come across details like someone commenting on the “model” of a horse, or shooting horrible monsters with a laser rifle. These details do not feel jarring to me though as their existence is explained. The history of this world is so detailed too, you can feel it as you read through the series and pick up all the hints and references. I think this series is a true example of a good world-building process.
Vampire Hunter D is just one extremely intriguing part of this world. This half vampire half human, Dhampir, is cold and quiet. He is often the greatest mystery in the stories.
However when looking into this series at first I was startled at the mixed reviews, while many were glowing the ones that weren’t cited many technical flaws to an extreme degree. This confused me even more as I read the novels and was unable to find many of these flaws. Thinking back over them I wanted to address some of them and why the readers may have come to that conclusion.
Writing Worlds 