Friday 21 May 2010

Book Twenty-Seven

Title: Vampire Knight Vol. 1
Author: Matsuri Hino
Summary: Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires! Yuki Cross has no memory of her past prior to the moment she was saved from a vampire attack ten years ago. She was adopted by the headmaster of Cross Academy, and now works alongside Zero to guard the Academy's secret. Yuki believes that vampires and humans can coexist peacefully, but her partner has different ideas ...
Genre: Romance
Time Started: 19th May, 8:30am
Time Ended: 19th May, 10:35pm
Page Count: Unknown. The last page number I can find is 70, and that's well over a hundred pages before the end.
Age Rating: "Older teen." 15+?
Warning: N/A.
Appeal Rating: 5/10.

I wasn't too keen on this one. Yes, the plot is alright and the art if fantastic, but I quickly got annoyed at how the chapters all start the same... "I'm Yuki, that's Cross. We're the Guardians of the School and the Night Class - ZOMG - they're vampires." Literally, it tells us that they're the Guardians so often, it's completely ridiculous. So, that ruined it, as did the cliché-ness of the vampires (stunning beauty gets old after a while).

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