Customer Reviews
Vampires and Parties - By: DDH255, 24 Nov 2008 
The recent popularity of the vampire genre is combined with the fashionable world of high society New Yorkin this inventive horror novel aimed mainly at the teenage market.
Schuyler Van Alen livesin a decaying Manhattan mansion with her very elderly grandmother & a bloodhound who mysteriously appeared a year before. She attends the prestigious Duchesne school & mixes with the social elite yet feels out of place & prefers to wear scruffy clothes. However, she soon realises that her heritage means that she is a vampire along with many of her peers or Blue Bloods, a benign group of bloodsuckers who organise charitable events & glamorous social occasions.
De La Cruz describes this world with relish, dwelling on the clothes, the meals, the locations & the relationships & her characters are interesting & well-drawn. The character of Bliss Llewellyn, the Texan vampire trying to hold her own amongst Manhattan's elite is particularly amusing.
However as the novel moves from an exploration of the social world of the immortals into a horror story, it becomes less convincing. The ending feels abrupt & unsatisfying. Some characters change dramatically & others seem to disappear. The feeling that a group of unlikely friends are being brought together to fight a greater evil which was developed very nicelyin the first part of the novel evaporates.
This is an entertaining novel but one which has left me unsure whether I would buy the sequel.
creative and will have you hooked till the end - By: Night walker scans, 16 Oct 2008 
i read this series after reading the twilight series, &in two days i had read the first two books of the series. This series is very creative, & gives a whole different view to the word vampire. it is very predictable, but i have a mother who watches/reads alot of crime detective stuff... this book is well worth buying especially if you are a fan of love triangles & vampires, all i will suggest is that you don't judge it before the story gets going. also ( i should of said this earlier ) the series is wrotein past tense, & it is not one character telling their past story, it is as though, narrated by a completely different person, so you don't really get to "be" one set character through out the series. ~well worth reading though~
written by a fellow teen.
Creative. - By: The Purple Hermit, 28 Aug 2008 
I really enjoyed reading this book, & found the storyline was great. the mentions about silver bloods, blue bloods etc. confused me a bit, but it was all explained to mein the end (i think.). i thought that the new twist to vampires was good, considering the fact that de la Cruz managed to make them fit seamleassly into the Upper-East-Side lifestyle. Being a vamp-novel junkie, i'd say this was a good one. well, actually, i haven't found a vampire novel i don't like yet (except maybe Vampyre Legion be Alan Gibbons - that was a WEIRD book). this is going on my 'good books' list. :)
Learn The Language!!! - By: Lupa Noctis, 09 Jun 2008 Allin all, not a bad read, certainly not the most captivating book ever written - all the descriptions of clothes labels go WAY over my head. My main problem with the series is the lack of research de la Cruz seems to putin - as a latin scholar myself, I can tell you most of the latin phrases she uses arein the wrong case, she uses verbs where nouns should be, & it gets VERY annoying. Also, the name given to a half-blood between a human & an angel is NEPHILIM. I'm sorry, but she's going to have to do better next time
Not what I thought it would be like .... - By: HBN, 04 Jun 2008 
I was very dissapointed with this book, thinking it was going to be less predictable, & less of a drag. In reality, it is dreary & slightly longwinded, & I did not like the main character s at all, as i did not think they were fully developed & all that interesting. I won't be reading the second one, that's for sure
