Blue Bloods

Blue Bloods

2006 • 302 pages

Ratings56

Average rating3.6

15

De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popular, athletic, and beautiful teens made up of Mimi Force, her twin brother, and her best friend. What they have in common is the fact that they are all Blue Bloods, or vampires. They don't realize that they aren't normal until they reach age 15. Then the symptoms manifest themselves and they begin to crave raw meat, have nightmares about events in history, and get prominent blue veins in their arms. Their immortality and way of life are threatened after Blue Blood teens start getting murdered by a splinter group called the Silver Bloods. This novel constantly name-drops and is full of product placements, drinking, drugs, nonexplicit sex, and superficial characterizations, but the intriguing plot will keep teens reading. De la Cruz's explanation for the disappearance of the Colony of Roanoke is unique and the idea that models don't gain weight because they are Blue Bloods rather than anorexic is unusual.

Become a Librarian

Series

Featured Series

8 primary books10 released books

#1 in Blue Bloods

Blue Bloods is a 10-book series with 9 primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Melissa De La Cruz and Melissa de la Cruz.

Blue Bloods
Revelations
The Van Alen Legacy
Keys to the Repository
Misguided Angel
Bloody Valentine
Lost In Time
Gates of Paradise
After Life
After Death

Reviews

Popular Reviews

Reviews with the most likes.

I can't even get past the first few chapters. The writing style is so boring - there's nothing to grab on to to keep my attention. And, who cares about stuck up snobs that happen to be bloodsuckers?

View

one of my co-workers is reading this series and she recommended this to me. I love Vampire/Paranormal reads this was just really slow for me

September 20, 2015
March 4, 2012