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| Masquerade (A Blue Bloods Novel) (Blue Bloods Novel) | 
 enlarge | Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Category: Book
List Price: $8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 4409
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1423101278
EAN: 9781423101277
ASIN: 1423101278
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help--her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for the Four Hundred Ball, an exclusive gala hosted by the city's wealthy, powerful, and unhuman--a true Blue Blood affair. But it's at the after-party, a masquerade ball thrown by the cunning Mimi Force, that the real danger lurks. Hidden behind the masks is a revelation that will forever change the course of a young vampire's destiny. Rich with glamour, attitude, and vampire lore, this second installment in the Blue Bloods saga will leave readers thirsting for more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 Continued Fun With The Over-Privilged Blood-Drinking Set October 15, 2008
A great sequel to Blue Bloods. It moves much quicker than the book before it because time doesn't have to be spent introducing characters. It's also a slightly more mature storyline -- veering in to sometimes-creepy Flowers in the Attic territory rather than holding true to it's Twilight and Gossip Girl roots.
 Vampire book is different 2nd book in series October 12, 2008
I liked this book more then the first in the series because i knew what was going on, and I could understand who these vampires were made. They really never died, their dna is transferred into a new vampire body, but after they turn a certain age they remember the past lifes. But there is a twist Schuyler doesn't have a past life because her father was a human and her mother was a vampire. So now the vampires of New York are very concerned about her and what she means to their family. The only way to understand these books is to read them. It is a good read.
Masquerade an apt title October 3, 2008
Masquerade picks up a few weeks after Blue Bloods ends with Schulyer and Oliver searching Venice for Schulyer's grandfather, Lawrence Van Alan. She does find him and events move more quickly once he enters the picture.
I don't want to give away too much of it, but Mimi gets accused of being the harborer of the Silver Bloods, and a Silver Blood herself after she was found in the possession of dark magic.
Schulyer ends up saving her because as the daughter of Gabrielle, she is the only one of the Blue Bloods who can taste the blood of other vampires without succumbing to the addiction and memory overload that can cause madness.
The action is far from being over - they managed to find out about one Silver Blood and the rest of Council knows about the danger but nothing else has happened to really put a stop to them and they are all in danger until then...
The action moves along with a nice pace and the title sums the book up nicely. There is an actual masquerade ball but the title seems to really bring out the idea of not knowing who is on which side of the 'fight'. Sometimes it even seems like the characters themselves don't know which side they are on.
It's well worth reading but I think I'd have absolutely confused if I had not read the first book first. This is not a series you can just pick up on from the middle.
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0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I always read the authors blogs...Before buying.....This author is too into pushing her politics on others- so I won't buy or read her books....too much like paying someone for their opinion on non book related topics.
Amazing and addicting! September 26, 2008
When I read the first blue blood book, In the begining I thought it was an okay..but then you get to the middle and end of the novel..it gets even better. So I purchased masquerade and Oh boy was I addicted! I finished it in a couple of hours and It's SOOO GOOD. This wole love triangle being confused with Oliver and Jack is just amazing and the fact that she has to figure things out on her own especially about the blue bloods makes it even better. I like how all the characters are ALL interesting. It's hard to explain how good the book is but once you read it you'll be hooked.. well only if your into vammpire-romance-mystery stuff. If you like the twilight series than you will like this except it isn't as romantic as twilight but it's more mysterious and fun! this helped me move on from being a huge twi-hard fan.
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