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Blue Bloods
By: Melissa de la Cruz

Characters

  • Schulyer Van Alen is a quiet, but beautiful outsider.
  • Oliver Hazard-Perry is Schyuler's best friend. He's an outsider, but is more outspoken than Schuyler.
  • Dylan Ward is Schuyler and Oliver's new friend. He moved to New York from Ohio and he has a tarnished reputation.
  • Jack Force is the most popular guy in school. He's mysterious and kind. Jack seems to be falling for Schulyer.
  • Mimi Force, Jack Force's twin sister, is the most popular girl in school. She's beautiful and mean.
  • Bliss Llewellyn is Mimi's best friend. She moved to New York from Texas. She's beautiful and sweet. She starts dating Dylan and becomes friends with Schuyler and Oliver, which Mimi does not like one little bit.
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Blue Bloods
By: Melissa de la Cruz
Conflicts
Person vs. Person

The conflict in this story is the Blue Bloods vs. the Silver Bloods. The Blue Bloods are the good vampires, and the Silver Bloods are the bad vampires. In this story, vampires came to be because God had cast out Lucifer and his angels from heaven, and as a punishment for their sins, they had to live their immortal lives on Earth as vampires, where they were dependent on human blood to survive. After this was done, Lucifer and a small group of his followers broke off from the rest of the group.They rejected God and were angry for being banished. They didn't believe in the code of the vampires because they didn't want to live within any type of law. Lucifer and his vampires discovered that sucking blood from Blue Bloods made them stronger than sucking blood from humans. By consuming other vampires blood, their blood turned Silver, which is where they got their name. (also known as Croatan) The Silver Bloods also broke the Code of the Vampires by directly interfering in human affairs and by gaining power in the human world. The Silver Blood's were going against everything the Blue Bloods believed in, and that's how the feud between the two groups came about.

"For thousands of years, the Silver Bloods hunted and killed and consumed Blue Bloods. But the Blue Bloods never stopped fighting them. It was their only way to survive."
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Blue Bloods
By: Melissa de la Cruz
Setting and Point of View
The setting of this story is present day in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. Most of the characters in this story are related to the old buildings somehow.

"The island of Manhattan was linked inexorably to her family history, as as far as she could tell, she was related to the Frick Museum, the Van Wyck Expressway, and the Hayden Planetarium, give or take an institution or two."

The point of view is third person omniscient because the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of the characters in this story.

"Within seconds, it had her in her grasp. She felt the sharp fangs puncture her skin and begin to slowly draw her life's blood from her. She swooned, gasping. She was going to die. She was fifteen years old and had hardly even lived, and already she was going to die. She struggled against its iron grip. Worse, knowing what her grandmother had told her, she would live. She would live in this foul beast's memory, a trapped prisoner to its insane consciousness forever. The pain was deep; she was feeling dizzy from the blood loss. But just before she succumbed, there was a shout."
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Blue Bloods
By: Melissa de la Cruz
Plot Line

Exposition:

  • Aggie, a popular girl at Duchesne, dies of an unknown cause. The only thing known about her death was that her entire body was drained of blood.

  • Jack starts showing interest in Schuyler.

Rising Action:

  • Schuyler finds out she is a vampire by attending The Committee Meeting.

  • She begins to learn of Croatan and wants to know more about it.

  • Dylan gets arrested for murdering Aggie.

Climax:

  • Schuyler is attacked by a Silver Blood.


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Blue Bloods
By: Melissa de la Cruz
Plot Line

Falling Action:

  • Schuyler, Bliss, and Oliver try to free Dylan.

  • Schuyler learns of her mother's past. Her mother was Gabriel, one of the seven archangels. She was the strongest vampire of all time, and her and her twin, Charles Force, Mimi and Jack's father, went down to Earth to save the Blue Bloods. Her mother has been in her sleep cycle since Schuyler was a baby.

Resolution: 

  • Dylan's whereabouts are unknown.

  • Schuyler's grandmother goes into her rest cycle.

  • Schuyler, Bliss and Oliver continue to search for Dylan.

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Background
Blue Bloods 
By: Melissa de la Cruz
Theme, Recommendations, and Author Bio
The theme of this story is to be aware and proud of your family background, because it makes you into the person you are today.


I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who's a fan of the Twilight series. It's a really good book and it's really interesting.

Melissa de la Cruz was born in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family where she graduated high school from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. She majored in art history and English at Columbia University. She is a New York Times and a USA Today best-selling author. Some of her books for teens include The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashley's series, and The Angels on Sunset Boulevard series. She now lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband and daughter.
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