The Painted Maidens Trilogy is a bind up of the set The Rising, The Betrayed, and The Taking, plus bonus short story 'How I Met Your Mother'.by Terra Harmony. Overall, I enjoyed this trilogy but I felt like reading it all back to back made it feel a bit long. I thought it dragged in a few parts especially in books 2 and 3. Book 1 was my favorite. This was a decent series about a beautiful underwater world.

The world building in this trilogy was my favorite aspect of the story. The mermaids and mermen world is a beautiful paradise that is slowly dying because the environment and populations of mers are dwindling. Our main character is Serena and with her we go off on a quest to try and help her people out.

Through her adventures she crosses paths with werewolves, who were once the protectors of the mermaids and are now the enemies. I found the whole Mermaids and Werewolves thing a little weird. I wasn't sure how they would naturally cross paths, so I didn't love that aspect of the story.

Overall, I think plot driven readers will enjoy this trilogy. It was just an ok read for me, but I did enjoy the overall plotline.

Went through a phase where I was interested in mermaid books but not anymore.