Books I Like: House of Comarré Series by Kristen Painter

The House of Comarré Series by Kristen Painter, is an interesting animal.


If you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you'll LOVE these books.



Blurb from Blood Rights (House of Comarré Series #1):


Gothic fantasy meets vampire fiction in this debut novel from 

Kristen Painter - full of politics, intrigue, and blood.


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.


I actually find myself, rereading this series, and its follow-up, Crescent City Series, every so often. I enjoy the atmosphere, and world building in them, and how Kristen Painter handles Vampires, magic, and varied magical/supernatural things. It manages to be familiar, yet different.

And for some strange reason, when I picture the cursed Vampire, Malkolm, he always ends up looking like Nathan Fillion in my minds eye.

Oh, since I mentioned it. The Crescent City Series, is just as fun as its parent series, if a little more low-key, more local to its setting, rather than global like its root series.

Blurb House of the Rising Sun (Crescent City Series #1):

Every vampire has heard rumor of the mythical place where their kind can daywalk. But what no vampire knows is that this City of Eternal Night actually exists. 

And its name is New Orleans. 

For centuries, the fae have protected the city from vampire infestation. But when the bloodsuckers return, the fragile peace in New Orleans begins to crumble. 

Carefree playboy Augustine, and Harlow, a woman searching for answers about her absent father, are dragged into the war. The fate of the city rests on them — and their fae blood that can no longer be denied. 

Book one in the brand new, action-packed urban fantasy Crescent City series, from award winning, House of Comarre author Kristen Painter!


You can probably tell, I am perhaps surprisingly enthusiastic about these books, and would welcome Kristen Painter to revisit this world that she's built. Though I can understand why that might not be double of course, speaking as a storyteller myself.

Sometimes, things just need to end, even if they were fun making.