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Melissa de la Cruz

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Young Adult, Paranormal Fiction, Fantasy

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Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat.

Her books for adults include the novel Cat’s Meow, the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and the tongue-in-chic handbooks How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less and The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-inch heels and Faux-Pas.

She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for many publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chron ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 705,431 ratings · 42,479 reviews · 133 distinct works • Similar authors

	Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 138,608 ratings — published 2006 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masquerade (Blue Bloods, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 90,556 ratings — published 2007 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revelations (Blue Bloods, #3) 3.90 avg rating — 76,934 ratings — published 2008 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 65,012 ratings — published 2009 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Misguided Angel (Blue Bloods, #5) 3.93 avg rating — 38,390 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in Time (Blue Bloods, #6) 4.04 avg rating — 26,715 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloody Valentine (Blue Bloods, #5.5) 3.98 avg rating — 22,622 ratings — published 2010 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Isle of the Lost (Descendants, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 23,347 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family, #1) 3.52 avg rating — 19,915 ratings — published 2011 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alex and Eliza (Alex & Eliza, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 17,393 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Blue Bloods (7 books)
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3.86 avg rating — 485,631 ratings

Descendants (4 books)
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3.89 avg rating — 38,893 ratings

The Beauchamp Family (3 books)
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3.55 avg rating — 34,045 ratings

Alex & Eliza (3 books)
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3.68 avg rating — 23,270 ratings

The Au Pairs (4 books)
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Melissa Cruz and 1 other person liked Escape Into Fiction's review of The Thirteenth Fairy (Never After, #1): "Read as a Digital ARC From the first chapter I was impressed by Melissa's use of diverse characters and how she brought the subject of different types of families into a middle aged read. Not only was she adopted, but both of her parents had different" Read more of this review »
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Melissa Cruz and 1 other person liked S Tondra's review of The Thirteenth Fairy (Never After, #1): "Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy is the first in a new middle grade fantasy series. The fairy tales that we know and love are wrong and this adventure sets us straight. Filomena lives a pretty normal boring life in North Pasadena but when her favori" Read more of this review »
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Quotes by Melissa de la Cruz

“Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

tags: colors, symbolism

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“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

tags: happiness, happy, heartbreak, hurt, love, self

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“we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.”
― Melissa de la Cruz

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If you had to reread a young adult series, which one would it be?

Vampire Acedemy by Richelle Mead

22 votes, 25.9%

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

22 votes, 25.9%

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

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8 votes, 9.4%

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Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

5 votes, 5.9%

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