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Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, #1)

Melissa de la Cruz

Start date: April 1, 2010

Finish date: April 30, 2010

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Jun 15, 2010 Janet Morris rated it really liked it

Shelves: vampires, fantasy, romance, self-discovery, supernatural, young-adult, books-in-a-series, disappointing-books, power-struggles, royalty-and-powerful-people

Melissa De La Cruz has written an interesting novel with Blue Bloods, the first in the series of the same name. The book is basically a young adult vampire novel. The book has some major similarities to other books within the young adult world, which might be completely unintentional, but it was on the annoying side to be reminded of other stories. The big one is that it reminds me a lot of Gossip Girl, only instead of the characters just being filthy rich Upper East Side teenagers, they have th Melissa De La Cruz has written an interesting novel with Blue Bloods, the first in the series of the same name. The book is basically a young adult vampire novel. The book has some major similarities to other books within the young adult world, which might be completely unintentional, but it was on the annoying side to be reminded of other stories. The big one is that it reminds me a lot of Gossip Girl, only instead of the characters just being filthy rich Upper East Side teenagers, they have the added benefit of being gorgeous, immortal, and powerful due to their vampire heritage. When I say vampire heritage, I mean actual heritage. These kids are born vampires, though they don't find out until they reach their teens.

There are several main characters within the story, each with his or her own personality, agenda, and background. The main characters appear to be Schuyler, Oliver, Bliss, Mimi, and Jack. Bliss, Mimi, and Jack are full-blooded vampires, while Schuyler is a half-blood and her best friend Oliver is sort of like her trusted sidekick that was assigned to her as an infant. All of the main characters are easy to empathize with, with the exception of Mimi who comes off as the stereotypical popular, vapid, rich girl. Her character could possibly improve in future books, and I hope she does, because I don't want to root for her to die or anything. It kind of sucks when you have to do that with a protagonist.

Although the book is interesting and could even be considered good, I don't think it's all that remarkable. In some parts of the book, it was extremely easy to read and fun, but other parts just seemed to fall a bit flat. I think that the struggle between some of the protagonists and the Wardens/Conclave (vampires in power) over the issue of Silver Bloods (the Big Bad) was intriguing, though some of it was almost predictable. I found it a little hard to believe that Jack didn't realize his own "father"'s origins. I know that he hasn't looked into his past life memories as much as his twin/bondmate, but it seems like he would have known who he was. I have to wonder if Mimi knows, since she acts like she knows everything.

I was irked by the idea of twins, even of a different species, being attracted to one another and being in romantic relationships with one another. Even when explained, it irked me out, but I guess I will never get the appeal of incest in fantasy stories. (Or other stories.) Maybe if the explanation had been given earlier in the book, when the first hints at incest were made, then it wouldn't have been quite as hard to swallow, but since it wasn't, it was more irksome. I'm just glad that other characters, who didn't know that it was considered the norm for the species, were just as disgusted by it.

The interesting might be worth reading, and I think I'll stick with it for a while to see if it gets better. I hope that it does because it could be great if it actually gets better. Otherwise, it may just be the beginning of some sort of literary trainwreck. ...more

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Mar 16, 2010 Jacky rated it liked it · review of another edition

I really dont know how to rate this book, it was boring at the start and a little complicated to follow then half way through it all started to fall in place. Im now onto masquerade (book #2) and hopefully the story picks up enough to complete reading the rest of the series..
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