Words on Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz (Blue Bloods #1)

Some of New York City's most elite families have been in the country for centuries, tracing their ancestors back through time. Their family lines may even include some presidents. And some families go all the way back to the Mayflower, their families being some of the few who made it to the New World.

Schuyler Van Alen is one such girl. At her exclusive boarding school, she is labeled a social pariah, shy and reclusive. She wears baggy, worn clothing instead to the designer brands her peers love. But when she starts to have strange cravings for raw meat and unexplainable flashbacks, she learns she may have more in common with her classmates, including queen bee Mimi Force, than she might have once thought.

Schuyler is a Blue Blood, a vampire. The vampires aren't quite immortal in the traditional sense, seeing that eventualy ther bodies grow old and die before they can be reincarnated. In this way, Schuyler is unusuall. She is a new soul, never before reincarnated. Nothing is supposed to be able to hurt the Blue Bloods. They are indestructable, untouchable. And yet, someone is hunting Blue Bloods. The elder Blue Bloods seem to know, but they're not saying. It's up to Schuyler and her friends to figure things out for themselves.

Schuyler is quiet and kind, and I found her a very relatable character. The loyalty of her bestie, Oliver, is so cute! You have to wonder if he thinks of Schuyler as more than a friend... ;). I didn't like how Mimi is keeping with the mean girl queen bee image, which is common but, to be honest, overused at this point. I was hoping we'd see something more creative with her. As for her brother, Jack, and one of her minions, Bliss, I didn't see much of their personalities. They din't feel very real.

Vampire socialites wasn't something new, but the book wasn't really all that boring. It did bring in things like fallen angels into the story without being super religious, which was fine by me. I liked the idea of vampire reincarnation as a more creative play on the immortality aspect. if I have anything to say, there wasn't anything that bad about the story, but neither was there something that really made it stand out, and the triple POVs sometimes took away from the characters and plot. If anything needs work, it's the characters' personalities. 3/5.

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