34. Melissa De la Cruz - Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, Book 1)

"De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popular, athletic, and beautiful teens made up of Mimi Force, her twin brother, and her best friend. What they have in common is the fact that they are all Blue Bloods, or vampires. They don't realize that they aren't normal until they reach age 15. Then the symptoms manifest themselves and they begin to crave raw meat, have nightmares about events in history, and get prominent blue veins in their arms. Their immortality and way of life are threatened after Blue Blood teens start getting murdered by a splinter group called the Silver Bloods. This novel constantly name-drops and is full of product placements, drinking, drugs, nonexplicit sex, and superficial characterizations, but the intriguing plot will keep teens reading. De la Cruz's explanation for the disappearance of the Colony of Roanoke is unique and the idea that models don't gain weight because they are Blue Bloods rather than anorexic is unusual." - School Library Journal

I actually found this series at Borders where they had an entire display devoted to supernatural teen fiction. As I'm always looking for a good easy read, I decided to pick this one up. It wasn't bad. It felt like this was a prequel rather than a full book. I guess as the first novel in the series it is setting the stage for the rest of the novels. I'll be reading the rest of the books in the series because I like the idea of this story line but I'll be getting them from the library rather than buying them.