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A review by starryorbit12
Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
Did not finish book. Stopped at 42%.
I don't think Melissa De La Cruz has every met or spoken to a teenager before. These 15 and 16 year old characters act more like college 20-somethibgs with the excessive partying, drinking, and smoking. There all pretentious and dull.
Schuyler is the typical "not like other girls" protagonist. Mimi is a vapid Regina George knockoff. Bliss is an insecure rich girl trying to conform to belong. Oliver is supposedly Schuyler's best friend, yet the plot forget he exist half the time. Jack is the typical YA love interest where the girl feels this mysterious pull despite speaking a twice and having no real personality besides plot convenience and being mysterious. Dylan is the sweet bad boy trope.
They are all bland cookie cutter tropes. De La Cruz thinks the only way we can know these are rich kids is by making everything some designer something or other. That's on top of describing every single outfit in large, name brand, detail.
Also, let's talk about Mimi. She is 16 with Botox all ready. She is sexualized from the moment she is on page and is set up as sort of femme fatale in the way she uses men for blood. Most of these men are adults. Why did have to read about 23 year old man feeling up a 16 year old Mimi in his car in graphic detail? Who thought it was a good idea to describe a teenage girls breast barely being covered as a grown man grope her after she just talked about how he has already done this to half the society girls in Mimi's area code. Mimi, the teenage highschool girl, is presened as the seductress who knew what she was doing in this situation.
In addition, what's with Mimi and Jack? Mimi is constantly jealous of Jack's attention on Schuyler, his obvious love interest, while saying stuff like how the only person he should look at that way is her. She even feels up his thigh in the first chapter. He is also the only boy, only person really, she cares about. This is just presented as how it is between them as twins Like, what in the "Flowers in the Attic" does De La Cruz twins are like?
I made it about half way through the book and so far an unimportant member of Mimi's Plastic knockoff cliques was drained of blood drawing an investigation, Bliss had a werid vision when kissed, and Schuyler was prescribed some cream to cover her veins by a strange doctor. For a book about who vampires and mystery, all I have really got is crumbs of something more interested while stuck in vapid, dull rich kids social nonsense.
Schuyler is the typical "not like other girls" protagonist. Mimi is a vapid Regina George knockoff. Bliss is an insecure rich girl trying to conform to belong. Oliver is supposedly Schuyler's best friend, yet the plot forget he exist half the time. Jack is the typical YA love interest where the girl feels this mysterious pull despite speaking a twice and having no real personality besides plot convenience and being mysterious. Dylan is the sweet bad boy trope.
They are all bland cookie cutter tropes. De La Cruz thinks the only way we can know these are rich kids is by making everything some designer something or other. That's on top of describing every single outfit in large, name brand, detail.
Also, let's talk about Mimi. She is 16 with Botox all ready. She is sexualized from the moment she is on page and is set up as sort of femme fatale in the way she uses men for blood. Most of these men are adults. Why did have to read about 23 year old man feeling up a 16 year old Mimi in his car in graphic detail? Who thought it was a good idea to describe a teenage girls breast barely being covered as a grown man grope her after she just talked about how he has already done this to half the society girls in Mimi's area code. Mimi, the teenage highschool girl, is presened as the seductress who knew what she was doing in this situation.
In addition, what's with Mimi and Jack? Mimi is constantly jealous of Jack's attention on Schuyler, his obvious love interest, while saying stuff like how the only person he should look at that way is her. She even feels up his thigh in the first chapter. He is also the only boy, only person really, she cares about. This is just presented as how it is between them as twins Like, what in the "Flowers in the Attic" does De La Cruz twins are like?
I made it about half way through the book and so far an unimportant member of Mimi's Plastic knockoff cliques was drained of blood drawing an investigation, Bliss had a werid vision when kissed, and Schuyler was prescribed some cream to cover her veins by a strange doctor. For a book about who vampires and mystery, all I have really got is crumbs of something more interested while stuck in vapid, dull rich kids social nonsense.