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Good Vampire, bad vampire: A book review of 'Revelations' by Melissa De La Cruz
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‘Revelations’ is the third book in the Blue Blood series by Mellissa De La Cruz following ‘Blue Bloods’ and ‘Masquerade.’ The premise of this series is that the blue bloods that everyone reads about in the society pages are actually vampires – which let’s face it, isn’t that much of a surprise. Although one does hate to acknowledge this, these blue bloods are actually the good vampires and the silver bloods – the ones that like to drink the blood of their victims until the humans, or blue bloods, are dead thus they are the bicker chicks/dudes of the vampire world. Oh, and they are fallen angels as well.
I have read all of the books of this series, the last one ‘The Van Allen Legacy’ was just released about a month ago, and out of the various selections of vampire series fiction that is out on the market including the Twilight books (I don’t know if you heard yet, but ‘New Moon’ is about to hit theaters) the 'House of Night' novels, the 'Vampire Academy' books, this series is my least favorite, although I thought ‘The Van Alen Legacy’ was a bit better than the average Blue Blood novel…but that’s a review for another day.
With every Blue Blood book, the action takes place in a different city. Although most of the blue bloods in the tale live in New York, in ‘Revelations’ they travel to Rio de Janeiro to face off with a famous demon. One of the main problems with this series is that the main character, Schuler Van Alen is as dull as unspiked punch. Her best friend is Bliss Llewellyn, a Texan immigrant to the Big Apple whose daddy is a senator, has her own issues. Mimi, the girl who is destined to marry her twin brother, Jack Force because they aren’t really related (long story and yet another example of an element in this series that doesn’t really work) is doing her best to make Schuler miserable since her brother digs her – oh don’t worry about the lack of incest with a Schuler/Jack relationship because above all of the other fun, Jack and Mimi are first cousins (human wise) with Schuler. Lordy!
Anywho, as I said, most of the action takes place in Rio but the storyline got a bit cloudy for me. Although I understood that Schuler finally reconnected with her grandfather, I didn’t really understand all of the bits about them being so close, particularly with the scenes that had them together where I didn’t really feel their closeness. I will give the book credit in that it wraps up a mystery that has been happening within the series storyline since the first book.
I would recommend ‘Revelations’ if you have already started on the ‘Blue Blood’ books and I would recommend the ‘Blue Blood’ series with trepidation. I think that there are several books with similar themes that are better than this series, yet I do find certain aspects of De La Cruz’s work interesting. If you are someone, like myself, who tends to concentrate on certain genres for comparisons and contrasts, then go for these books, if not, think twice before diving in.
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