Note: you can read our review of volume one here.
Do you read vampire manga for the sexy, sexy blood-sucking? Do you find forceful immortal men alluring? Is your preferred aesthetic “Victorian Gothic Pastoral?” If you answered yes to any of these questions, Rosen Blood‘s second volume may be just the book you’ve been looking for. The romance elements have been ramped up from the first book, the trip into Levi’s memories allows for more detailed environments, and the story is rapidly escalating in its Gothic melodrama, all of which is either going to solidify the series’ hold on readers or make them run screaming in the other direction – it feels as if there’s very little middle ground here.
With the boys established as vampire (or at least vampirish) creatures in the first volume, the second is free to jump in with both feet, and by that I mean “establish the tortured romance…
