Schuyler Van Alen (also known as Sky), her best friend, Oliver Hazard-Perry, and their new friend, Dylan Ward, don't fit in with the popular crowd at their prestigious New York private school. While their classmates are getting into upscale trouble by staying out all night at ultra-exclusive hot-spots like Block 122, Schuyler and her friends are trying to get into The Bank.
Although Schuyler comes from old money, the only 'living' family member she has is her grandmother, a woman who frowns on opulent spending. Schuyler dresses in secondhand clothes, doesn't have a chauffeur, and spends every Sunday at the hospital visiting her comatose mother.
One of Sky's tormentors is the spectacular Mimi Force. She and her twin brother, Jack, are the quintessential New York rich kids. They are blond, perfect and the envy of every other student at Duchesne. They are already junior members of the long-standing New York Blood Bank Committee.
One night, when the popular kids are at Block 122, and Schuyler and her friends are hanging out at The Bank, a fellow student turns up dead. Most assume that Aggie Carondolet died of a drug overdose, but a few students suspect that Aggie was murdered.
Murder and death are not events that happen to students from Duchesne, mostly because the student body is made up of cycling vampires, or blue bloods. They aren't vampires in the B-movie traditional sense. In the world created by Melissa de la Cruz, roughly 400 vampires can exist at any one time. They do not die in the classical perception, but recycle their consciousness to reappear in the world at different times. One of the only ways to kill them is for a creature of evil to drink their blood, forcing them to become a Silver Blood.
De la Cruz takes an interesting point of view on the 'traditional' vampire story. The idea that vampires aren't necessarily born, but are brought back into consciousness, with the ability to regain memories of past lives is fresh. The book even goes so far as to explain America's lost colony of Roanoke, and is interesting from beginning to end. It's a quick read and a great foundation for the series.
Tracy Elledge
Blue Bloods
Schuyler Van Alen (also known as Sky), her best friend, Oliver Hazard-Perry, and their new friend, Dylan Ward, don't fit in with the popular crowd at their prestigious New York private school. While their classmates are getting into upscale trouble by staying out all night at ultra-exclusive hot-spots like Block 122, Schuyler and her friends are trying to get into The Bank.
Although Schuyler comes from old money, the only 'living' family member she has is her grandmother, a woman who frowns on opulent spending. Schuyler dresses in secondhand clothes, doesn't have a chauffeur, and spends every Sunday at the hospital visiting her comatose mother.
One of Sky's tormentors is the spectacular Mimi Force. She and her twin brother, Jack, are the quintessential New York rich kids. They are blond, perfect and the envy of every other student at Duchesne. They are already junior members of the long-standing New York Blood Bank Committee.
One night, when the popular kids are at Block 122, and Schuyler and her friends are hanging out at The Bank, a fellow student turns up dead. Most assume that Aggie Carondolet died of a drug overdose, but a few students suspect that Aggie was murdered.
Murder and death are not events that happen to students from Duchesne, mostly because the student body is made up of cycling vampires, or blue bloods. They aren't vampires in the B-movie traditional sense. In the world created by Melissa de la Cruz, roughly 400 vampires can exist at any one time. They do not die in the classical perception, but recycle their consciousness to reappear in the world at different times. One of the only ways to kill them is for a creature of evil to drink their blood, forcing them to become a Silver Blood.
De la Cruz takes an interesting point of view on the 'traditional' vampire story. The idea that vampires aren't necessarily born, but are brought back into consciousness, with the ability to regain memories of past lives is fresh. The book even goes so far as to explain America's lost colony of Roanoke, and is interesting from beginning to end. It's a quick read and a great foundation for the series.
