Schuyler Van Alen is a typical misfit: grungy clothes in her prestigious prep school, obscure music taste that no one seems to like and instead of the high rise apartments of New York, she lives in an old Brownstone with her grandmother. When Schuyler turns fifteen, odd things begin to happen to her. Suddenly she’s craving raw meat, her hunger is no longer sated by food, no matter how large the meal and the cute boy of her school is talking to her. Things are topsy turvy until she’s enlightened: she’s part of a super-secret vampire cult, The Blue Bloods.

If only the book was half as interesting as the synopsis. Full of cliches and tired plot lines, this book is not worth reader’s time or money.

First of all, the book takes almost 150 pages to get going. That number is even more outlandish when you consider the book is only 336 pages long. A book should not take more than half of its length to kick off. Blue Bloods did.

Boring and full of holes, the plot does nothing that makes the reader want to continue. There were seemingly random events that appeared to serve no greater purpose than adding pages to this book. The characters were awkward and shallow, with little to no character development occurring.

This truly is your average Young Adult Vampire Romance novel– mildly sexist, endorsing codependency and ridiculously dramatic. Honestly, it was probably about 330 pages too long.

The narrator and main character, Schuyler, is so unrelatable that readers will not like her at all. The other characters don’t do much for the novel either.

The best part of this book was the ending, and simply because it was over.

All this being said, this is actually a fairly popular series, and has a total of 7 books now. Some people have really enjoyed the series, but there just don’t seem to be a lot of reasons to love it. Needless to say, I would not recommend it to anyone with an education above fifth grade.