Blue Bloods - Mellisa De La Cruz

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I really liked this book and expect the rest of the series to be just as good. The story is concentrated around a girl named Schuyler Van Alen although it switches perspectives a great deal. It tells of the kids at Duchesne school in New York, an expensive private school. The secret is that some of the kids, some of the most popular, really were not human. They were blue bloods. Relatives of those who came over on the Mayflower to Plymoth and they were vampires. Until there fifteenth birthday they were mostly normal but then blue veins start to show on their arms and a dog will adopt them (really part of their soul come into physical form to protect them in their most vulnerable years) and they start to have memories. Schuyler isn't like anyone else at her school, even the red bloods, the humans, although she doesn't even know the difference. She is an outcast. One night at a party her friend convinces her to go to she almost doesn't get in but she hoped with all her might and the bouncer blinked his eyes and passed them. Later at a dance at school one of the most popular boys catches her and her best friend Oliver, an outsider with her, on the way out. She dances with him and dances through memories, like she was in a video. He experienced it to. Then she is invited into the exclusive Blood Donors Committee. Really the Committee is a cover for the vampires to congregate. They are all rich, powerful, and famous people. They explain what is happening to her though she can hardly believe it, the ten or so others invited latch on to the answer. The trouble is the Silver Bloods. Something is praying on the Blue Bloods but they don't want to recognize it. Her Grandmother who took care of her knew it and helped Schuyler. Her friend who she had had since second grade, Oliver, was actually her Conduit, a Red Blood who was meant to serve her, protect and guide her, also knew something was up. The most popular boy in school Jack Force was also aware something was wrong. One of the new vampires had been sucked empty, like full consumption, and nothing was supposed to be able to kill a vampire. Schuyler tries to navigate her way through her new life, some things the same and others different. She HAD to get the Committee to listen to her or they would all die! Another girl, Bliss, believed her and was trying to help. At the end of the first book Schuyler finds Cordelia, her grandmother, in a puddle of blue blood at home. She had kept the Silver blood from sucking her essence, all her former memories and intelligence out but hadn't been strong enough to stay alive. Her grandmother told her to search for her Grandfather, he would know how to kill the Silver Bloods and save them. Schuyler was able to get enough blood save so that her grandmother could reenter the cycle later.

End first book. I really am only able to give a General overview that is NOTHING compared to the book. I highly recomend this book.