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  <title><![CDATA[The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, #4)]]></title>
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  <default_description>With the&#160;stunning revelation surrounding Bliss's true identity comes the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods. Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods now find themselves in an epic battle for survival. Not to worry, love is still in the air&#160;for the young vampires of&#160;the Upper East Side. Or is it? Jack and Schuyler are over. Oliver's brokenhearted. And only the cunning Mimi seems to be happily engaged. Young, fanged, and fabulous, Melissa de la Cruz's vampires unite in this highly anticipated fourth installment of the Blue Bloods series.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">10</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, #4)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Melissa de la Cruz]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 26 16:40:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 17 14:20:07 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Melissa de la Cruz has been holding out on us!  The Van Alen Legacy is by far the best in series.  As a reader, I got everything I wanted, plus many amazing things I never would have thought to ask for.  This series is basically a vampire soap opera, but man, what a well done soap opera it is.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57422466">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 31 11:50:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 12:16:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[  The Van Alen Legacy is about Schuyler going against time to figure out who murdered her great grandfather while being accused guilty. While she battles with finding her grandfathers killer and her true love Mimi who is suppose to be bonded with her twin Jack who loves Shuyler she is having little ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76306762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75289082">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 21 14:33:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 21 14:57:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I finish a book in the Blue Bloods series, I can't decide if I like it or not.  Typically, I borrow it and read it in hardcover, and if I liked the new one well enough, I'll buy last year's in paperback.  (Odd, I know, but my feelings about this series are so ambivalent, that I can't even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75289082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74938800">
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    <name><![CDATA[Angelia Fransisca]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 18 13:20:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 19 05:49:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[On this fourth installment of the blue bloods series, Melissa de la Cruz once again brought us to the world where betrayal, romance, action, mystery, friendship, politics, family and even vampires lie. <br/><br/>The story starts with a conversation between Lawrence Van Alen and charles Force. This...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74938800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74017653">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 09 16:49:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 09 16:49:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My thoughts... In case you are new to the Blue Bloods series, this is the fourth book.  I recommend you start with book one Blue Bloods, or you will be confused.   That being said, I should have reread the last book before I read this because I found myself rereading to avoid confusion.  Melissa bui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74017653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73699144">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 06 20:17:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 07 19:54:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, I loved this book...gobbled it up too fast, tho. Will go back and read it more slowly soon. De la Cruz masterfully gets us up to speed from the last book and we're soon off and running. The story is told from the points of view of Sky, Bliss, and Mimi. Each has spent a year since the trauma of R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73699144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63056282">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 11 11:53:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 11 11:53:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am once again impressed by Melissa's skills! THE VAN ALEN LEGACY just might be my favorite of the series!<br/><br/>Since there is no synopsis up on the web, I'll just explain a couple of things. After the death of Sky's grandfather, the Committee is lost. With Jack and Mimi Force's father gone, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63056282">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73668406">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 06 15:20:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 10 02:06:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this enough to push it to 4 stars, but I'd really like to give it 3.5 stars.  I really can't get behind the Jack and Schuyler pairing because I just don't like him. Simply put, Jack has had an eternal obsession with a woman that does not love him back, and if Schuyler wasn't Allegra's daug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73668406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74309521">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 12 14:37:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 12 14:42:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[felt a lot like filler for the next book, and the short, alternating POV chapters made the story feel choppy. <br/><br/>however, i now love mimi, ever so much. i'm glad the bliss story took the turn it did, bliss and jordan. i found i really didn't care about schyluer in this installment, which made...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74309521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74443471">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 19:22:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is the best of the 4 books. I wish they were longer!<br/><br/>All 3 girls have changed a lot, as has my choice in favorite character.  Schuyler was probably the change I liked least...she seemed so independent &amp; strong before &amp; this time she just...didn't.  Please don't turn her into ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74443471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75723887">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 25 19:04:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 13:32:12 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I received this from Disney-Hyperion for review.<br/><br/>This is book 4 of the Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz<br/>Pros<br/><br/>    * I like Mimi in this one. She does a cool thing by helping Kingsley track down the Silver Bloods. She kinda rocked in that position. Until the end of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75723887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74141995">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who loves vampires...]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 10 23:30:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 27 09:51:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review:<br/><br/>Melissa De La Cruz’s Blue Blood series continues to deliver with the “Van Alen Legacy”. If you’re a fan of the fist three books your going to love this one. The story starts with Oliver and Schuyler on the run from the Venators in Paris, Mimi in Brazil looking for Jordan, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74141995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72750295">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 28 05:25:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 15 20:48:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bleh. First of all, I was sure I'd read somewhere that this was the last Blue Bloods book, but this barely wrapped anything up, so I guess I'm in for at least one more volume.<br/><br/>This book just felt scattered all over the place. There is so much going on, with so many people, and so many sub...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72750295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74580907">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 01 22:01:46 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good but not great. My favourite story was Mini's and it lessened my liking for the book a bit beacause they kept changing perspectives and ending chapters on cliffhangers.<br/><br/>I didn't remember the other books so well (at all really) and I think the author did a really nice job navigating ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74580907">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 05 06:10:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[YES!! Loved this book! Yet another good installment in the Blue Blood series. Okay, at first I was pissed. Schuyler was doing that thing where the heroine goes out with her best friend just to make HIM happy even though she knew she still loved someone else which in-turn probably made it even worse ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74710857">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 27 14:47:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of things happen to move the plot forward in this book.  I like how the author split each chapter between Bliss, Schuyler, and Mimi.  It was neat to shift between their POVs.  However, I don't like how short each chapter is - 2-3 pages usually.  The author is very creative in her story-telling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75929676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am getting really annoyed by YA authords dragging out their series books. Did there really need to be five books in this series? (Is it even ending in five series?) I think its a ploy to make more money and completely and totally unnecessary. This isn't exactly Harry Potter caliber material we are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76813448">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well I have to say that at first I did not like this book.  It really took me until about 3/4 way through to get to the point that I wanted to keep reading.  That being said, the end of this book was great.  I personally can not wait for the next one.  However, I hope in the next book she keeps the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78455468">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A huge improvement over the third book, The Van Alen Legacy presents a series of character vingettes as Schuyler, Mimi and Bliss confront varying but eventually converging challenges in the battle against the Silver Bloods.<br/><br/>The &quot;reincarnation&quot; and the many previous identities an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75417494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got super lucky and was able to read the latest Blue Bloods book--out on Oct 6th--and okay, The Van Alen Legacy? So good I actually COULDN'T stop reading it. For real--I had work to do, but I kept saying, &quot;I'll just read one more page. Okay, one more chapter. Okay, just this little bit more.....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72749001">more...</a>]]></body>
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