The evil Lord Oda is dead (after already being dead,
then undead, and now totally dead), but Taro’s greatest challenge is still
ahead. He must vanquish a dragon in
order to get permission to marry the girl he loves. Wait fighting dragons to win the heart of a
fair lady is supposed to be for knights, nit vampire ninjas!? Taro is doomed! As if that wasn’t enough to worry about the
dead are rising. No, not vampires,
ZOMBIES! The super, evil and very creepy
Kenji has crawled back from the dead and is raising an army of corpses to
destroy all he sees. OH! Also, Taro’s very own flesh and blood family plans
to betray him! Being a vampire ninja in
feudal Japan is ROUGH!
Vampire ninjas VS Dragons and Zombies! What’s not to love!? This is a great finale
to a wonderful action series. This book,
like the two before it (read my reviews here and here), have loads of fast paced action and ultra-violence, perfectly
evil villains to root for, and enough plot twists to keep things
interesting. Also, Nick Lake does a nice
amount of research to make the Japanese setting feel real and authentic. Basically the Blood Ninja series is like a super awesome manga series without the
pictures. It doesn’t have the most
realistic characters, but they aren’t boring or entirely one note either. The heroes are almost always outmatched and
that makes for tense and exciting action sequences. The romantic plot does get a little sparkly
when Taro learns that he can’t be with Hana without turning her into a vampire,
but that never drags the plot down to a soap opera. This is a must read for fans of action,
manga, or historical-fiction-fantasy-horror.
You can check our catalog for Blood Ninja III here.
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