Blue Bloods
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Average rating3.6
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.
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8 primary books10 released booksBlue 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.
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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?
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
I'm torn on whether to give this book 3 or 4 stars, but I'll go with 3 for now since there were a few flaws that I felt could have made this book better.
First of all, I was (and still am) reading “City of Bones”, but that was awfully long and detailed, so I decided to take a break and read this. I'd been meaning to for years, and I had started to in the past, but I just lost interest. The problem is, the book doesn't really get into all the vampire stuff until the middle of the book. You know it's coming, though, because it's on the back of the book. I felt like it could have gotten into it a little bit earlier, especially since a few of the characters already “know”.
Second, I kept on getting confused between the characters of Schuyler and Bliss. One was an social outsider who was a vampire, and the other is a slightly-more popular yet still kinda outsider who is also a vampire. I just didn't feel like these characters - among others - were distinct enough to differentiate. The guy characters blended together for me, at times, too.
I did like how the novel approached the vampire lore with something different. I liked the high-society aspect of it and how vampires were so interwoven into New York culture. As others have said, if you liked Gossip Girl (which I kinda did) and you want vampires, this will be perfect. The writing style was very engaging, and I even learned a few new SAT words along the way.
I was disappointed how the book ended without any real resolution. They just built it up and up and nothing really got solved. I wish they would have at least tried to wrap things up instead of being an obvious “now go buy the 2nd book”. I was probably going to read it anyway, but I don't like feeling so pressured ;)
