Welcome to my second
(and last) post for the
"Something Wicked Comes"
This is a month-long Halloween event! Every day during the month of October, each participating blog has been featuring a favorite paranormal/urban fantasy book (or books), along with a giveaway! You can check out the post schedule at either of the two hosting blogs shown above.
For this second post, I have decided to feature a great urban fantasy novel, dealing with vampires, that I've recently read. It's the first in the acclaimed House of Comarré series. You will find my review and giveaway Rafflecopter below!
Although this is the next-to-the last day of the event (there will be a wrap up/guest post with Darynda Jones on 11/1, at Rainy Day Ramblings), today's giveaways will actually end in November.
(House of Comarré #1)
Mass Market Paperback, 392 pages
Orbit
(Little, Brown Book Group Ltd.)
November, 2011
Gothic Urban Fantasy
My Review
For several years now, vampires have been dominating the paranormal romance and urban fantasy genres. This particular series has a steady following, and I count myself among its newest fans! It's a rather unique series, too; the concept behind it is very intriguing, and the writing is nothing short of excellent. I admire Painter for coming up with yet another variation on the vampire mythos, one that certainly held this reader's interest all the way to the end.
The vampires in this novel belong to specific classes. There are the 'noble vampires', who are descended from fallen angels, and the 'fringe vampires', who are descended from none other than Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ. Now this is certainly a new take on vampires! Just how these two classes -- who never mix, of course --came to descend from fallen angels, on the one hand, and Judas, on the other, is not pointed out in this book. I assume more details will be forthcoming in the sequels, since this is the very first volume in the series. Learning just this much, though, was enough to pull me into the story. But there's more...
