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frekinney's review
5.0
Your typical RH manga with a vampiric twist. I really needed this as a palate cleanser before I jump back into 400+ page, high fantasy, chapter books.
alexbthelibrarian's review
4.0
I received an eARC of this title through NetGalley in return for an honest review.
This was an interesting start to a manga series. The main character gets saved from a carriage accident, but all of that happens before the book starts. The main character, Stella, then asks to work for the men who saved her. Through her misadventures with them, she learns they may not be human.
I liked the concept of this manga and the art is well done. I think the only thing that I kept asking myself in this first volume was, what exactly is happening? There are moments where, as the reader, I was just confused about. Like, why does she just accept that she can't go anywhere? The story doesn't really go into other than making the reader assume she has no where else to go. Also, the way the characters are introduced are a bit choppy at times.
However, after saying all that, it's a decent start to a first read. If you enjoy vampire romance type manga like Vampire Knight, this is definitely a read for you.
This was an interesting start to a manga series. The main character gets saved from a carriage accident, but all of that happens before the book starts. The main character, Stella, then asks to work for the men who saved her. Through her misadventures with them, she learns they may not be human.
I liked the concept of this manga and the art is well done. I think the only thing that I kept asking myself in this first volume was, what exactly is happening? There are moments where, as the reader, I was just confused about. Like, why does she just accept that she can't go anywhere? The story doesn't really go into other than making the reader assume she has no where else to go. Also, the way the characters are introduced are a bit choppy at times.
However, after saying all that, it's a decent start to a first read. If you enjoy vampire romance type manga like Vampire Knight, this is definitely a read for you.
dynamicdylan's review
5.0
CW: Blood, Dead Bodies, Violence
This fueled my vampire loving heart! In this story we follow a girl named Stella, who's carriage breaks down. She finds refuge in a house full of vampires! What mysteries do they hold?
I loved this so much! It reminds me of Diabolik Lovers, which I love! The characters are all intriguing and the art is stunning. If you're looking for a gothic vampire story, I would check out this one!
This fueled my vampire loving heart! In this story we follow a girl named Stella, who's carriage breaks down. She finds refuge in a house full of vampires! What mysteries do they hold?
I loved this so much! It reminds me of Diabolik Lovers, which I love! The characters are all intriguing and the art is stunning. If you're looking for a gothic vampire story, I would check out this one!
perazo's review
3.0
*sighs* This was fine. Beautiful artwork, beautiful clothes, v v gothic, problematic elements, and, uh, yeah.
bookswithleigh's review
Though I think this has already been published, I got a free copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. (Note: To Viz Media, your watermark on your ARCs are ridiculously large, and not quite transparent enough to read some of the smaller speech bubbles covered by them).
I don't usually review the manga I read. I think it's difficult to review an overarching plot if you go volume by volume, but GR lacks an option to review a series as a whole, so I tend to leave them both unrated and uncommented on. But Netgalley requires at least 100 words about them, so here goes:
I wasn't really sure what to expect when I picked up Rosen Blood. As I began reading, I felt like I was reading a mishmash of concepts that already existed rather than something original - the plot from that vampire otome mobile game (Ikemen, I think?), Vampire Knight, Diabolik Lovers, Bloody Kiss, to name a few...
What really shines with Rosen Blood is the artwork. The characters are drawn beautifully, and the fangs, when they're shown, are just *clenches fist* so good. Our heroine, however... I don't know. Amnesia as a plot device has never been my favorite, because like it is in this first volume, it's often relied on to handwave the fact that the one afflicted with it has no personality. Aside from reminding the main male love interest of a mysterious woman from his past, there seems to be very little reason for them allowing her to work for them. She's also blind to the danger she's in while living in the remote, isolated manor where three out of the four inhabitants have done their best to scare her and heavily imply how dangerous they are (and, in one case, attack her outright)....and yet, she brushes it all off and finds excuses to explain their behavior. I had hoped the heroine would have a stronger personality than that, but there seem to be many harem and harem-adjacent series where that's just not the case.
I'm hoping that a personality will begin to shine through as the series goes on, but right now, if I had to pick a vampire romance to recommend to someone, it wouldn't be this one ... it would probably be Vampire Knight or Millenium Snow.
I left this unrated because I came away from it just thinking "meh", but Netgalley requires a rating on their site, and I gave it 2 Stars there...if that's any indication for how unremarkable this was for me.
jkenna1990's review
2.0
This was incredibly predictable. The story was just like almost every other vampire book about a young girl getting taken by a bunch of vampires and held in their mansion. If you've read one, skip this - you won't get anything new out of it.
kkimlyreads's review
3.0
Interesting premise…but by the time I finished this volume I had no idea what it was about. We’ll see in the next volume.