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Blue Bloods

  • 2006 first published
  • 319 pages
  • ★ 3.9 (8 ratings)
  • 2 editions

Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Bloods (2006) is a vampire fiction novel. Much of the action takes place in New York, N.Y.. It deals with Wealth, rich families, secrets and teenagers.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.9 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 46 more have it on their want-to-read list.

It runs to roughly 319 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Blue Bloods

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.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Young adult fiction
  • Wealth
  • Rich families
  • Secrets
  • Teenagers
  • Murder
  • Secrecy
  • Schuyler Van Alen
  • Vampires
  • Children's fiction
  • New york, N.y.

Quick answers

Who wrote Blue Bloods?

Blue Bloods was written by Melissa De La Cruz and first published in 2006.

What genre is Blue Bloods?

It is usually shelved as Vampire Fiction.

How long is Blue Bloods?

The median edition has 319 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Blue Bloods?

Readers who like it often enjoy City of Fallen Angels, City of Glass and City of Heavenly Fire.

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