Blue Bloods & Masquerade (Blue Bloods Series)

I got to this book after I had read a lot about them and then I found them at my local bookstore. That was something to celebrate so I got them both. I do not regret it! I'm going to give the review of the first 2 books on the series because I read them almost one after the other.

Blue Bloods is the first of a series of 4 books written by Melissa de la Cruz and published in 2007.

Schuyler Van Alen lives in New York and attends to an exclusive school with a bunch of rich kids and socialites. The story begins when a girl from her school dies in a very exclusive club, a girl that hangs out with the popular crowd like Jack and Mimi Force. Schuyler finds out later that even though she does not hang out with that especial crowd, she belongs with them whether she likes it or not. Soon she'll find out that an evil force is attacking people around her and that no one will believe her but her dear friend Oliver.

This book is really cool, you can tell that the author knows about the social life in NY and everything that surrounds it. The characters are well defined and the mythology is different from every other vampire mythology you have ever read. It is interesting and intriguing. Schuyler is a girl that you actually get to like and understand. I usually found myself shivering at the creepy relationship between Jack and Mimi. And of course you will all be rooting for Schuyler and Jack. You will find yourself a bit dissapointed at the end of the book because it won't give you a closure to the story, far from it. It leaves us with a bunch of questions and with the obvious idea that the story had just begun and is far from the happy ending we are all looking for. That is why I immediately read the next book.


Masquerade is the second book in the Blue Bloods series and it was published in 2007.

In this book we begin where we left off in the last one. Nothing interesting had happened between one book and the other and the action begins immediately. You will read the book so quickly that you won't even notice that the ending is a few pages away. In here we will find Schuyler being as shy as she was in the first book but her vampire powers are developing in an interesting way and we start wondering how important she is going to be in the vampire world. The evil force she believes is attacking the vampires is striking again and she will do everything to make everyone see that it is true.

This book ends the same way as the first one. With a little bit more of closure but still it makes you want to keep on reading because this series doesn't have a self-contained story in each book. It is a whole, uninterrupted story that you won't be able to stop reading because you will realize that this is a story split into 4 books. So, without one you won't be able to read the next one!!

I highly recommend them because even if you feel like nothing is happening or that the plot is a bit slow you will realize, as you close the book, that you want to know more. That you just can't leave it there and you need to run to get it.

So, in the end, go get these books! They are different and interesting and girly and with a mythology that sets them apart from the rest of the vampires.

Have a Fangtastic Tale!