When I picked up my son’s meds yesterday, I picked up the first book in the Blue Bloods series.
Summary for Melissa De La Cruz’s website:
Within New York City’s most elite families, there lurks a secret society of celebrated Americans whose ancestors sailed on the Mayflower. They are the powerful and the wealthy—and in fact, they are not human. They are the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of vampires.
Schuyler Van Alen has never fit in at Duchesne, her prestigious New York City private school. She prefers baggy, vintage clothes instead of the Prada and pearls worn by her classmates, and she lives with her reclusive grandmother in a dilapidated mansion. Schuyler is a loner—and happy that way.
But when she turns fifteen, Schuyler’s life changes dramatically. She has a mosaic of blue veins on her arms, and craves raw meat. The death of a popular girl from Duchesne is surrounded by a mystery that haunts her. And strangest off all, Jack Force, the most popular boy in school, is showing a sudden interest in her.
Schuyler wants to find out the secrets the Blue Bloods are keeping. But is she herself in danger?
Honestly, I’m underwhelmed. I wanted to love it and honestly, after I made it through the pages and pages of info dump, I did like it, but I’m just kind of luke warm on it as a whole.
I do want to read the rest because I’m intrigued enough with the plot line, but literally half of the book was:
She was wearing this…
This is…
He looked like…
She was…
It just dragged and dragged. But once I drudged through that, I liked the story well enough.
I still feel there wasn’t enough character development. I don’t feel connected to any one character and I’m not really rooting for anyone in the romantic sense, even though that was a subplot throughout the novel. But the novel does have redeeming qualities in that it leaves you wondering where the story is going to go, who the real villian is, etc. I’m sure I will read the rest, but I’m not jumping out of my seat about it or anything.
Blue Bloods gets:
2.5/5 Candy Canes (because Christmas is awesome)
Love the candy cane system. From the first description, I think I’d still add it to my TBR pile, but I’m moving on to Werewolves first (Shiver is next on my list). Also, sorry to read about your son. Hope he’s feeling better. Happy holidays. Lori
It’s worth reading, that’s for sure. Like I said, the plot line is intriguing enough to make me want to finish up the series. A friend of mine has read them all and say they get better, so I’ll give it a shot. I really want to read Shiver, too. I’m actually buying it for someone for Christmas and I’m hoping she lets me borrow it when she’s finished!
And thanks, he is feeling much better! Happy holiday’s to you, too!