I really love the world that Painter created in Blood Rights Blood Rights book #1 in the House of Comarre series. There were your typical "otherworld" creatures (vampires, fae, shifters, etc.) but Painter put a nice new spin on everything making it all very fresh. 
 Bad Blood is book three of the series (I don't know how many books are planned) with book four coming out sometime in 2012. Like the second novel Flesh and Blood Flesh and Blood the story picks up eight days after Mal healed Chrysabelle. She's refused to see both him and Creek for putting Mal's blood in her in order to save her life after her signum were cut out of her back. 
 One of the first things I must acknowledge is Painter is a master at writing a book where not too much happens, just enough to answer a few questions and keep the readers riveted throughout. I think she does this with the use of the changing POVs throughout the story. In the first book we had our main characters Mal, Chrysabelle, Doc, Fi, and Tatiana. With this book and Flesh and Blood we've only added more POVs to keep track of. Painter does a wonderful job going back and forth which makes me wonder if she writes everyone's POVs as a whole and then chops the story up in editing (hmm interesting). Anyway, I can't say that I mind the chaning POVs, but I will say that I mind more and more characters being added to this list. She does a great job ending scenes just before events happen that we've been waiting for (ahem! Mal and Chrysabell) and not picking them back up for a couple more chapters, thereby forcing readers to continue until they come to that point again. 
 In this book we get Chrysabelle on a quest to get her signum reapplied in order to go back to the Aurelian to find out more information about her brother. In order to accomplish this, she needs the Ring of Sorrows that we haven't seen since the first book and was almost all but forgotten in the second book. This is one of the things that bothered me about the book. I like Chrysabelle as a character. I thought in the first book that she was wonderful to be able to take care of herself, yet she was vulnerable to the new world she escaped to. In this book, she seems much more stubborn. There were multiple times that I was frustrated with her because she wouldn't listen completely to what people were telling her and basically jump without looking. I don't like this version of Chrysabelle and I can only hope that this is possibly a side effect of events that took place in book two and this book. In Bllod Rights, I really liked that she's a very kind-hearted person. Not that she's lost it completely, but it seems that she is too focused on what she thinks of as her "mission" to find her brother. There were times where if se would have stepped back and recollected herself maybe she could have avoided certain situations. 
 I really loved Mal in this book, however, and by extension I loved the interactions between Mal and Chrysabelle. Their scenes to gether show Chrysabelle as we first see her. Someone who is very capable with a caring heart. I like that they become closer in this book and we can basically rule out the worthless love triangle storyline that was brought up in Flesh and Blood. But on that note as well, I like the path the the triangle took. Creek showing that he would be man enough to step aside without ego and pride getting in the way because obviously she doesn't feel the same for him as she does Mal. A lot of authors think that a love triangle needs to show the males fighting (in some form) over the female and honestly why? Either the woman loves you or she doesn't, if she doesn't, fighting with the guy she does love will not change her mind. 
 In order for Chrysabelle to retrieve the ring that Mortalis hid she needs to go to New Orleans. I liked the change of local for this book. Since this book takes place in the future, it's interesting to see another part of America and what the landscape is like. This book definitely focues more on the Fae and we get to learn more about Mortalis which I liked because I really do like him as a character. 
 So in the vein of the other two books things happen, but the ultimate goal is still a bit of a question for me. At this point, I'm hoping that Painter is not a cruel author that makes her charcaters suffer until the very last pages of the last book, and then they find happiness. It's like they get so close only to have something come and pull it a little farther away. Oh well, I still can't get enough of the series and I can't wait for book 4. I will say that even though Painter tends to end the series on a big "!?" they haven't been really bad cliffhangers. I feel satisfied enough that I'll be ok for the months until the next book comes out. Until Then!