Product Description

They're Young, Fabulous and Fanged...And they rule Manhattan from the trendy uptown clubs to the downtown boutiques. Fifteen-year-old Schuyler Van Alen has never quite fit in at her exclusive prep school ? she's more of a vintage than a Versace girl ? but all that's about to change...Because Schuyler has just found out she's a Blue Blood. The Blue Bloods are the city's glamorous ? and secret ? vampire elite. They're young, beautiful and powerful. But now they're being murdered. And Schuyler must find out who ? or what ? is behind it before she's next.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4074016 in Books
• Published on: 2010-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
'Fanged and fabulous' Booklist (starred review) 'A juicy voyeuristic peek into the lives of rich Manhattanites - who happen to be vampires' Kirkus

About the Author
Melissa de la Cruz is the author of the best-selling Au Pairs novels for teens and the coauthor of the popular adult novel The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas. She is also a frequent contributor to popular magazines like Glamour, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, and Cosmopolitan. Melissa lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

Customer Reviews

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
It's the invasion of the vampires!

Recently, the world of the undead has been sweeping its way into young adult novels, making sure that the vampires are prominently featured. Melissa de la Cruz, author of the popular series THE AU PAIRS, makes sure that she adds her own twist on vampires in her new series, BLUE BLOODS.

Schuyler Van Alen believed that she was just a normal teenager, living a normal life, and just didn't seem to fit in. Attending a private school isn't the world that Schuyler wanted to enter, what with all of the high fashion when she would rather wear her "unfashionable" clothes. But she never thought she would enter the world of the vampires, either.

When she turns 15, Schuyler discovers some major changes in herself, like the veins in her arms that are distinctly blue. And the blue veins can only mean that she is part of the Blue Bloods, a group of vampires whose ancestors go as far back as the Mayflower. Being a Blue Blood isn't so bad, right?

Well, when a murder takes place and a popular guy starts to notice you, Schuyler knows that there is something strange going on, and it's up to her to crack all of the society's secrets and to keep herself out of danger while doing it.

Melissa de la Cruz does not disappoint with BLUE BLOODS. The world that Ms. de la Cruz has created is not only unique but also very intriguing. Fans of the vampire world will definitely want to add this to their collection, and will be looking forward to MASQUERADE, the next novel in the series.

Reviewed by: Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen

creative and will have you hooked till the end
i read this series after reading the twilight series, and in two days i had read the first two books of the series. This series is very creative, and gives a whole different view to the word vampire. it is very predictable, but i have a mother who watches/reads alot of crime detective stuff... this book is well worth buying especially if you are a fan of love triangles and vampires, all i will suggest is that you don't judge it before the story gets going. also ( i should of said this earlier ) the series is wrote in past tense, and it is not one character telling their past story, it is as though, narrated by a completely different person, so you don't really get to "be" one set character through out the series. ~well worth reading though~
written by a fellow teen.

Vampires and Parties
The recent popularity of the vampire genre is combined with the fashionable world of high society New York in this inventive horror novel aimed mainly at the teenage market.

Schuyler Van Alen lives in a decaying Manhattan mansion with her very elderly grandmother and a bloodhound who mysteriously appeared a year before. She attends the prestigious Duchesne school and mixes with the social elite yet feels out of place and prefers to wear scruffy clothes. However, she soon realises that her heritage means that she is a vampire along with many of her peers or Blue Bloods, a benign group of bloodsuckers who organise charitable events and glamorous social occasions.

De La Cruz describes this world with relish, dwelling on the clothes, the meals, the locations and the relationships and her characters are interesting and well-drawn. The character of Bliss Llewellyn, the Texan vampire trying to hold her own amongst Manhattan's elite is particularly amusing.

However as the novel moves from an exploration of the social world of the immortals into a horror story, it becomes less convincing. The ending feels abrupt and unsatisfying. Some characters change dramatically and others seem to disappear. The feeling that a group of unlikely friends are being brought together to fight a greater evil which was developed very nicely in the first part of the novel evaporates.

This is an entertaining novel but one which has left me unsure whether I would buy the sequel.