Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods #1)

I didn't really enjoy this book, partially because it just wasn't the type of thing I'd usually read but since I wasted a good two days of my life trying to get through it I feel entitled to review it.

Blue Bloods is about a group of upper class New York teenagers who are vampires. One of them is murdered early on in the book which has everybody worried because apparently you can't kill a vampire.  It is basically a combination of Twilight and Gossip Girl though it seems to lean more towards Gossip Girl.

One of the most annoying things about the book for me was the endless descriptions of designer clothes. I guess a more fashion savvy person would probably be able to understand the difference between Prada pearls and just regular pearls but I just found it stupid and irritating. Also the multi paragraph descriptions of what every character was wearing seemed to slow things down and kill a few of my brain cells in the process. I don't mind the occasional description of what a character is wearing but describing Mimi's outfit down down to her designer underwear is unnecessary. Do we really need to know what type of thong Mimi is wearing to enjoy the story?

The characters themselves seemed to be lacking, the author rotates through three different points of view. Just when you were getting a feel for what Schuyler might be like suddenly your hearing about Mimi's shopping spree or Bliss's fancy apartment. However the only really annoying character in the book is Mimi, the stuck up popular girl. Which is unusual for books like this, usually all the characters are popular and stuck up to a degree but Schuyler and Bliss were okay and you can relate to them somewhat. They're probably the only reason I gave this book two stars instead of one.

Then there is the plot which doesn't seem to really start until the very end of the book. Up until then you get a lot of vampire history and some backstory on Schuyler's family. Then as if the book wasn't fashion obsessed enough the author throws in a pointless modeling subplot, in which Bliss and Schuyler do a photoshoot. They discover that several famous supermodels are actually Blue Bloods. All in all it has nothing to do with the plot and seems to only have been put in the book so the author would have another opportunity to list off brand names. The book ends with a cliff hanger designed to make you buy the next book and there is minimal resolution.

I personally wouldn't reccomend this to someone whose actually interested in a story about vampires. A lot of what was good about the book was lost with the endless descriptions of designer clothing and flat characters. If you do want to read the book I'd check it out from the library before buying it.