Blood Rights

House of Comarré, Book 1

By: Kristen Painter

Narrated by: Abby Craden

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.

©2011 Kristen Painter (P)2012 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Prophecy, curses, and devilish machination combine for a spellbinding debut of dark romance and pulse-pounding adventure." ( Library Journal)

Decent

I found this to be fairly decent. The narrator was pretty good the story was a bit weak but entertaining enough.

Great story

This is a must read or rather hear. The storyline was awesome with wonderful characters!

These books are amazing!

I have the full set at my house and gotta say I'm glad I got to listen to them

Comarre' Not my cup of tea.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I love Kristen Painter's Nocture Falls series, but I just could not get into this story. I am sorry I just didn't finish it.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I can't say. Where I loved the characters from her Nocture Falls books, I just didn't fall in love with the characters in this book.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Abby Craden?

No opinion at this time.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Hmmm, probably not, but maybe.

Any additional comments?

I feel bad giving this review. I loved Kristen's Nocture Falls series - which I have listened to several times over each book. I guess maybe the idea of being just a food source, even if rich....just didn't appeal to me. Sorry Kristen.

THE NARRATION IS HORRENDOUS

What made the experience of listening to Blood Rights the most enjoyable?

THE STORY IS INTRIGING

What do you think your next listen will be?

ANSWER PLOT HOLES

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Abby Craden?

AMANDA RONCONI OR KRISTEN PAINTER - THE MOST AWESOME NARRATOR EVER!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

NOT AT ALL

Any additional comments?

The story is not great but is okay to listen to while you are waiting or one of your series new book to come out. So if you are out of options this is okay, the story is intriguing but WAY too melodramatic and it is made worse by the narration... do you know when you read a book to a child and you OVER EXAGGERATE to make it silly? well thats exactly how this narration goes, I feel bad writing this, I do not mean to offend the narrator, maybe she was told to read the book this way, there were many times that I stopped listening because of the "soap opera" way the she was reading it, here is a good drinking game to make this book more enjoyable, grab a nice glass of wine and every time you listen to "I could not bare to..." take a sip... that is what I did half way on this book, do not get me wrong Im about to download the second book on this series, like I said the story IS intriguing.