#12 Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

[meganbmoore]

Schuyler Van Alen is a modern goth emo teen who attends Duchesne, a prestigious, exclusive school for New York’s terminally rich. Naturally, she hates all her snobby classmates and lounges around with her equally disaffected best friend, Oliver. Her opposite number is the bitchy and elite Mimi, who isn’t happy when her twin brother, Jack, the most

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[annwfyn]

This sounds interesting, actually. I've added this to my list.

[meganbmoore]

It is fairly interesting, actually. It just kinda has annoying characters.

[meganbmoore]

I was annoyed but somewhat got it because of the Mayflower thing, until it dawned on me "Angels! Biblical angels! Reincarnating in the same bodies over and over! They would not look like that!" (I mean, I could get it if the race seemed to have deliberately altered their ethnicity as Europe became a power, but that doesn't seem to be the case.)

[annwfyn]

I wonder if it was a deliberate choice tho - the writer taking the idea that the rich are different, and then running with it - rich = vampires being more of a satire/political statement?

[meganbmoore]

There's definitely a rich/elite=vampire thing going on, both here and in other vampire fiction, I just wish I thought there had been more thinking behind it than that in making them all rich white people for about a thousand years.