Blue Bloods

Title: Blue Bloods
Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Series: Blue Bloods (Book 1)
Genre: Young Adult


I see this book/series every time I go to Target, and I finally decided to get it from the library. It is another Vampire series that is aimed at high school students.

Blue Bloods follows 2 different groups of friends who go to an elite prep school in New York City. There is normal High School Drama and cliques going on throughout the story, but there is a little something else that also lies right below the surface.

Many of the families who go to this school can trace their family tree to the Mayflower. This is no coincidence. These families are also members of a "charity organization" that is a front for what they really are, Blue Bloods, Vampires.

Now like every other Vampire story that is out there the rules behind being a Vampire are a little different. I think that's part of my favorite parts of books like these, the way the author has to think that through and makes it their own. 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. They live only 100 years, a single drop of their blood is saved and then they are reborn after a waiting period. Therefore their family tree relatives are really the same people who are around today.

They are suppose to be immortal for those 100 years, and some have tried to kill themselves by running in front of a train, but lately some have been dying. It ends up being due to Silver Bloods.

I enjoy this story and it was another quick read. The only issue I had with it is it seemed to have no ending. The vampires were dying due to something mysterious. They find out it is the Silver Bloods and that's it. They don't find the Silver Bloods, they don't stop them, they don't know who they are, nothing. I felt like I needed more closure, but perhaps that's to get you to read the next book, which I shall be doing.