Product Description

Schuyler Van Alen is a freshman at the prestigious Duchesne School. A loner by nature, she finds her life thrown into turmoil when she turns 15. Suddenly she is allergic to the sun, craves raw food, and if she cuts herself, her blood is blue. Schuyler has no idea what is happening to her. As more and more curious things happen, Schuyler must confront her family and friends to discover the truth behind her blue blood. But there are bigger problems soon to be faced. When a girl in school is found dead, with mysterious bite marks on her neck, Schuyler is more confused than ever about her heritage…and her destiny.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117069 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-01
• Released on: 2007-03-27
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up–De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popular, athletic, and beautiful teens made up of Mimi Force, her twin brother, and her best friend. What they have in common is the fact that they are all Blue Bloods, or vampires. They don't realize that they aren't normal until they reach age 15. Then the symptoms manifest themselves and they begin to crave raw meat, have nightmares about events in history, and get prominent blue veins in their arms. Their immortality and way of life are threatened after Blue Blood teens start getting murdered by a splinter group called the Silver Bloods. This novel constantly name-drops and is full of product placements, drinking, drugs, nonexplicit sex, and superficial characterizations, but the intriguing plot will keep teens reading. De la Cruz's explanation for the disappearance of the Colony of Roanoke is unique and the idea that models don't gain weight because they are Blue Bloods rather than anorexic is unusual.–Sharon Rawlins, NJ Library for the Blind and Handicapped, Trenton
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From Booklist
Gr. 9-12. Like the power brokers that are their parents and ancestors, members of the popular clique at New York's Duchesne School are Blue Bloods, continually reincarnated vampires endowed with preternatural beauty, charisma, and strength. The plot revolves around several teens, unaware of their heritage, who begin to manifest their true natures during a terrifying spate of vampire-to-vampire violence. At book's end, nonconformist Schuyler has emerged as heroine, having discovered a rift in Blue Blood history that lays the groundwork for forthcoming books. Grafting the chick-lit sensibility of her Au Pairs books onto horror themes, de la Cruz introduces a conception of vampires far different from traditional stake-fleeing demons, coupling sly humor ("What, the Committee was just a front for a bunch of blood-sucking B-movie monsters?") with the gauzier trappings of being fanged and fabulous--as well as abundant references to the taboo-laden "taking" of human familiars, a procedure with overtly sexual overtones. Although the novel isn't sure quite what it wants to be (satire? beach read? gothic saga?), many teens will savor the thrilling sense of being initiated into an exclusive secret society, and will doubtless want to drink deeply from the vampire-themed offerings suggested in the adjacent "Read-alikes" column. Jennifer Mattson
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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. Melissa has appeared as an Expert on Style, trends, and celebrity for CNN and E ! Entertainment network and is a frequent contributor to popular magazines like Glamour, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, and Cosmopolitan. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Melissa is not a Blue Blood, but she knows people who are...

Customer Reviews

It was alright
Being and avid Twilight series fan i was very unsure of this book. I was disappointed and impressed at the same time. I was extremely impressed by the writing style. It was fluid and very well thought out, so in that regard it was a very good book. But for this being a book about vampires, there are just not enough vampires in it. For the first 100 pages or so the idea of vampires is simply mentioned and not explored. So, if you are a Twilight fan like myself, you will not only be disappointed in not reading about the vampires, but also be very disappointed in tn the way that the vampires that we have come to learn and love are not portrayed the same way. Also I thought it had a very weird story line.

A complete waste of time.
The author chose to focus more on fashion than on the plot and its characters, thus leaving the story half-baked. I thought I was picking up a book about vampires, not Vogue or Elle! The author went overboard with her obsession for designer labels that it just got beyond ridiculous. The characters weren't well developed, as was the plot. The flow was very choppy. It was painful reading the book but I forced myself to finish it hoping that the author would redeem herself somewhere down the line. Alas, it was not to be. This was a complete waste of time, paper, and ink.

blue bloods
I am a little surprised that "Blue Bloods" only has an average of 3.5 stars because I loved this book. I read all types of vampire fiction, & "Blue Bloods" was one of the most unique takes on the matter of vampires I have read in awhile. At first, I thought that this book would just be some fluff about high society life in New York, but there is so much more to "Blue Bloods." I don't want to give away too much of the mystery, but there were some big shockers as to certain people's true identities, & the mythology is very interesting.