Blood Rights by Kristen Painter
(House of Comarré, #1)
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Format: paperback
Read: 1/11/2012 — 1/16/2012
In Six Words: An intriguing take on vampire world.
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Kristen Painter — Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook
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Book Order
1. Blood Rights
2. Flesh and Blood
3. Bad Blood
Synopsis
The lacy gold mapped her entire body. A finely-wrought filigree of stars, vines, flowers, butterflies, ancient symbols and words ran from her feet, up her legs, over her narrow waist, spanned her chest and finished down her arms to the tips of her fingers.
Born into a life of secrets and service, Chrysabelle’s body bears the telltale marks of a comarré—a special race of humans bred to feed vampire nobility. When her patron is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect, which sends her running into the mortal world…and into the arms of Malkolm, an outcast vampire cursed to kill every being from whom he drinks.
Now Chrysabelle and Malkolm must work together to stop a plot to merge the mortal and supernatural worlds. If they fail, a chaos unlike anything anyone has ever seen will threaten to reign.
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Thoughts
Blood Rights has been recommended all over the place. I picked it up during Bout of Books, but my reading enjoyment got interrupted by some work, and I think that I may have enjoyed it more, had I not read it in small bits and pieces. There seemed to be a lot of world building and setting up of the story, and while I liked the thoroughness of it, it took longer for me to become engrossed in the story. In some ways, Blood Rights reminds me of J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series in the sense that it focuses on many other characters besides the main characters. I don’t mind this, but it did seem to make it more difficult (or, longer) to connect with the characters. On the other hand, the focus on other characters makes me more attached to their stories and what happens to them in the long run.
I loved the idea of the Comarré (as the synopsis reads: a special race of humans bred to feed vampire nobility). It is brilliant and original. I want to know more. Blood Rights ends on a note that will have you wanting the next books in the series, without leaving on too much of a cliffhanger. There were a few things that I figured out before they were revealed, though I don’t know if that’s because it was predictable, or if I was just on my game. I prefer to think the latter. I will definitely be continuing the series once I get my hands on Flesh and Blood.
16 Responses to “Mini-Review: Blood Rights by Kristen Painter”
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Great mini review!
Tara and I were opposite sides of the fence with Flesh and Blood so it will be interesting to see what you think of it :)
I haven’t read Book 3 because I was warned to wait on Book 4 so I am going to guess it has some element that will make me furious LOL
I thought that Flesh and Blood was better than the first book. I’ve now read that and Bad Blood (which was not as good as the second). There’s a pretty big cliffhanger at the end, where some information is just thrown at you and that’s the end.
I bet that is why I was told to wait! I don’t handle cliffhangers well LOL
I liked Flesh and Blood more than the first book too. I read the first two almost back to back so the shifting perspectives didn’t bug me at all during the second one (though I acknowledged that they were there)
This one didn’t bother me that much because I suspected the info. It was rather predictable.
I really should give Flesh and Blood another shot. I’d bet that I was just overwhelmed with work and couldn’t get into due to my mood.
Glad you liked this one!
I read both Flesh and Blood and Bad Blood for escape books, and I enjoyed them. The multiple perspectives takes a little getting used to, though.
Like BDB, huh? This series keeps catching my eye. I have to give it a try.
Like BDB with the shifts in POV. Better than the BDB as far as characters though.
I really enjoyed this first book, but like you said the jumping around to different characters can make it difficult to get into. It didn’t bother me at all in the first one, but it seems like with each book she’s adding more characters that we end up following and I just want to get back to Chrysabelle and Malkolm who made me love the the series in the first place.
Yeah. I’ve read the next two books in the series, and while I liked them, I think there are aspects that are starting to overtake the series. There is beginning to be too much going on.
I have been interested in this series for a while. I have not read too many reviews on it, but I think I will give it a try.
It’s worth a try! :)
Hmm, I like that you compare it to BDB. I’ll agree that the premise is different and I like that. Think I may wait till you get ahold of the next one before I decide to pick it up or not. You can be the guinea pig…cause you’re totally on your game ;)
Ha! I’ve now read both the second and third books, and my reviews should be publishing by the end of the month. There are actually at least five books planned, and the third book definitely ends in a bit of a cliffhanger.
Glad to hear you’ll be continuing the series. I will too…eventually. First I need to get my hands on the sequel(s).
I’ve actually read the second and third books now. Looking forward to the fourth!