THE VAN ALEN LEGACY
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Young Adult paranormal
ATOM
ISBN# 978-1905654796
400 Pages
$14.99
Hardback- Available now
Rating: 4 Enchantments
THE VAN ALEN LEGACY is the fourth book in the Blue Bloods series. The series follows the lives and actions of three girls, Schuyler, Mimi, and Bliss with the primary story line following Schuyler. This book starts following the catastrophic events of Book Three REVELATIONS.
Schuyler is a wanted girl and is on the run with her best friend Oliver for crimes she did not commit. She is on the trail of her family’s legacy and to find out the cold hard truth no matter what stands in her way. However there is a fork in her road. Her head tells her which way is safe but her heart leads her on a different path.
Bliss is facing her own battle. She wakes up in a body she is unable to control. Her mind is her only safe haven however she seems to have no control of that either. What happened to her? How did she get in this position? And if it is not her living her life then who is?
Mimi is reveling in her new found power. She is one of the Venators. She has changed her life and is no longer Miss Priss. She is something to be feared. With this new change comes new love. But will Mimi trade in her destiny for a chance at a new life?
I would like to say that this book was perfect but it wasn’t. It took forever for any action to happen. I also did not like how this book takes place one year after the end of REVELATIONS. I would like to have had it immediately following the end of book three that way we could have gotten to see what happened when the disaster at the conclave was found out. The book did pick up after a bit and I was please to see some new characters start to be more active. One part of this book and series that I love is it really does show that nothing is set in stone. These characters are acting completely opposite of the way their destiny is telling them. They are having new roles in life and new loves. The ending of THE VAN ALEN LEGACY was quite shocking and a complete cliff hanger but this is the style of Miss De La Cruz. I for one cannot wait for the nest book in the series MISGUIDED ANGEL which comes out October 2010.
Melissa De La Cruz is the author of the Ashleys series, the Au Pairs series and now the new Blue Bloods series. To find out more about her and her books please visit her website at http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php
Jennifer
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
February 2010
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Enchanting Review: Revelations
REVELATIONS
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
YA Vampire paranormal
Hyperion
ISBN# 978-142310228-1
264 pages
$15.99
Hardcover- Available now
Rating: 5 Enchantments
Schuyler Van Alen is now living under the Force’s roof. This means she is forced to share a living space with her rival Mimi, and her love Jack. Her best friend is now her familiar and is completely in love with her. Schuyler must choose between the two of them or someone will get hurt, and it might be Schuyler if Mimi finds out that Jack and Schuyler are still seeing each other. Schuyler’s grandfather is now the Regis and he is spreading the word of how dangerous the Silver Bloods truly are. What no one can figure out is who exactly is harboring the silver bloods and what their plan is. When an accident in Rio forces everyone to fly down there, lines will be drawn. Secrets will be revealed. Evil will be unleashed. Will Schuyler’s friends be who she thought they are or will one of them betray them to the evil Lucifer?
REVELATIONS is the best story yet! Schuyler is torn between two men who both truly love her. Both men however are forbidden from being with her. One is forbidden by law and the other by destiny. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to find out who was behind the Silver Blood attacks. Every time I figure it out I am proven wrong. I was shocked, SHOCKED, at the ending. But that is what makes a story truly wonderful. I cannot wait for the fourth book, THE VAN ALEN LEGACY that is released in September 2009 when we see where we can pick up after tragedy strikes.
Melissa De La Cruz is the author of the Ashleys series, the Au Pairs series and now the new Blue Bloods series. To find out more about her and her books please visit her website at http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php
Jennifer
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
January 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Enchanting Review: Masquerade
MASQUERADE
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
YA Vampire paranormal
Hyperion
ISBN# 978-1423101277
336 pages
$8.99
Paperback- Available now
Rating: 4.5 Enchantments
Schuyler Van Alen is on a mission to find her grandfather, Lawrence Van Alen. Her grandmother’s last plea was that Schuyler find her grandfather so that he could save the blue bloods from the Croatan, or Silver Blood. He is the only one who truly believes that the Silver Bloods are alive. Schuyler and Oliver travel to Vienna to find the infamous Lawrence, but what they find is a man who does not want to come back to a group that shunned his ideas and cast him out. Schuyler decides that maybe the Silver Bloods are not back and it was all the delusional ideas of her grandmother after all. Schuyler attends a masquerade ball in the hopes of seeing her secret crush, Jack Force. What she finds is a mysterious masked man who takes her breath away.
Bliss Llewellyn has never given up hope that Dylan, her love is still alive. Everyone thinks that he was turned by a Silver Blood or was the Silver Blood but Bliss knows deep in her heart that it was not the truth. When Bliss attends the 400 Ball her father gives her a huge Emerald necklace. He tells her it was her mother’s and it is an emerald that fell from Lucifer him self’s crown. Bliss has a unique attraction to it but surely her mother could never own something so evil right? Who is her mother anyways? And how did she die?
MASQUERADE is the second installment in the Blue Bloods series. The story picks up a mere few weeks after the end of Blue Bloods and is just as action packed. Schuyler is coming into her character quite nicely. She is not afraid to dig a little deeper. The only part of Schuyler’s character I do not like is how distracted she gets from the big picture. She knows there is a serious problem and that the Silver Bloods are roaming free yet she seems to forget everything when she is around Jack. I loved the progress that the story made. The ending made me run out immediately to buy the third book, which I devoured in one sitting also. MASQUERADE is a book that is not to be missed, but Blue Bloods really should be read first for the story to be fully understood.
Melissa De La Cruz is the author of the Ashleys series, the Au Pairs series and now the new Blue Bloods series. To find out more about her and her books please visit her website at http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php
Jennifer
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
January 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Enchanting Review: Blue Bloods
BLUE BLOODS
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
YA Vampire paranormal
Hyperion
ISBN# 978-1423101260
336 pages
$8.99
Paperback- Available now
Rating: 5 Enchantments
Bliss Llewellyn is the new girl at New York’s Duchesne prep school. It doesn’t take long for her to realize where the cliques are. Mimi Force is definitely the big girl on campus, rich, powerful, and has a hot twin brother, Jack, that seems to be matching her social status. Schuyler Van Alen is the complete opposite of Mimi, she runs with only two friends Dylan and Oliver, she dresses quite frumpy, and her family is from less money than is the standard. Duchesne has an elite group of students that are the committee. Only the “blue bloods” can get in. Those seem to be the high class uppity kids. Imagine Bliss’s shock when she is invited to the club as well as Schuyler. What neither girl realized that the term blue bloods was quite literal as they are all vampires.
BLUE BLOODS is the story of three girls coming into their vampire puberty. Each vampire lives a life cycle over and over, and when the teenagers hit the age of 15 their bodies start to recognize their past lives. They also start to crave blood. This cycle happens to each of the blue bloods, named after their blue blood, except for Schuyler Van Alen. She is the last of her line but she is not a true blue blood. She is a half blood. Her mother is a blue blood but her father is known as a red blood, or a human. Schuyler has no past lives to recognize as she is a new spirit. But Schuyler is on a much deeper quest. She is trying to find out who keeps killing young blue bloods. Each death is surrounded by mysterious circumstances and all seem to point to the mythical Croatan as the killer. But The Croatan is just a myth right?
This was the first book in Melissa De La Cruz’s Blue Blood’s series. I was hooked from the first page. I could not believe this book was sitting in my TBR for so long. Blue Bloods is not the typical YA vampire paranormal. So many of these stories are the same old cookie cutter scenario but Blue Bloods had me on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what was going on. There were so many twists and turns there was no way I could have predicted what was going to happen. I highly recommend BLUE BLOODS to anyone who wants a fun, fast, and action packed story!
Melissa De La Cruz is the author of the Ashleys series, the Au Pairs series and now the new Blue Bloods series. To find out more about her and her books please visit her website at http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php
Jennifer
ENCHANTING REVIEWS
January 2009
Friday, May 23, 2008
Enchanting Review: Crazy Hot
CRAZY HOT
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Contemporary YA
Simon Pulse
ISBN 1-4169-4808-2
271 Pages
$9.99
Trade - Available Now
Rating: 4.5 Enchantments
Eliza, Jacqui and Mara never thought the three of them would end up spending yet another summer together in the Hamptons; after all, they all had separate plans for the summer—Eliza is busy opening her boutique on Main Street; Jacqui thought she'd be spending the summer working for the Perrys, and Mara was certain she'd be spending the next few months traipsing across Europe with her boyfriend, writing articles on the hostels and enjoying the sights. But plans change and now the three girls are thrown back together in their old stomping ground.
The title CRAZY HOT describes the girls' summer perfectly. When Eliza realizes her father's new girlfriend needs a couple au pairs to take care of her kids, who better to call then her best friends Jacqui and Mara? It'll give them the perfect opportunity to hang out together for one last summer since they'll all be living in the same mega mansion. But hanging out is pretty well the last thing that happens. Eliza ends up with a ring on her finger, one she can't decide if it's a promise ring (she's hoping that's the case) or an engagement ring; Jacqui's being hounded by two of the hottest fashion photographers in the world, and Mara's left alone, playing au pair with the kids and trying to ignore the fact her ex-boyfriend is only a strip of beach away.
I really liked CRAZY HOT and thought it was a great wrap up to the AU PAIR series. Even though the girls' friendship is faced with numerous ups and downs, with each girl feeling alienated from the others at some point in the story, by the end Eliza, Mara and Jacqui are at the right place in their lives and the friendship between them is as strong as ever.
The Au Pairs: CRAZY HOT is the fourth and final book in Ms. De La Cruz's popular AU PAIRS series. Visit her online at http://melissa-delacruz.com
Lisa
YA Director
Enchanting Reviews
April 2008
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Contemporary YA
Simon Pulse
ISBN 1-4169-4808-2
271 Pages
$9.99
Trade - Available Now
Rating: 4.5 Enchantments
Eliza, Jacqui and Mara never thought the three of them would end up spending yet another summer together in the Hamptons; after all, they all had separate plans for the summer—Eliza is busy opening her boutique on Main Street; Jacqui thought she'd be spending the summer working for the Perrys, and Mara was certain she'd be spending the next few months traipsing across Europe with her boyfriend, writing articles on the hostels and enjoying the sights. But plans change and now the three girls are thrown back together in their old stomping ground.
The title CRAZY HOT describes the girls' summer perfectly. When Eliza realizes her father's new girlfriend needs a couple au pairs to take care of her kids, who better to call then her best friends Jacqui and Mara? It'll give them the perfect opportunity to hang out together for one last summer since they'll all be living in the same mega mansion. But hanging out is pretty well the last thing that happens. Eliza ends up with a ring on her finger, one she can't decide if it's a promise ring (she's hoping that's the case) or an engagement ring; Jacqui's being hounded by two of the hottest fashion photographers in the world, and Mara's left alone, playing au pair with the kids and trying to ignore the fact her ex-boyfriend is only a strip of beach away.
I really liked CRAZY HOT and thought it was a great wrap up to the AU PAIR series. Even though the girls' friendship is faced with numerous ups and downs, with each girl feeling alienated from the others at some point in the story, by the end Eliza, Mara and Jacqui are at the right place in their lives and the friendship between them is as strong as ever.
The Au Pairs: CRAZY HOT is the fourth and final book in Ms. De La Cruz's popular AU PAIRS series. Visit her online at http://melissa-delacruz.com
Lisa
YA Director
Enchanting Reviews
April 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Enchanting Review: Crazy Hot
CRAZY HOT
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Contemporary YA
Simon Pulse
ISBN# 1-4169-4808-2
271 Pages
$9.99
Trade - Available Now
Rating: 4.5 Enchantments
Eliza, Jacqui and Mara never thought the three of them would end up spending yet another summer together in the Hamptons; after all, they all had separate plans for the summer-Eliza is busy opening her boutique on Main Street; Jacqui thought she’d be spending the summer working for the Perrys, and Mara was certain she’d be spending the next few months traipsing across Europe with her boyfriend, writing articles on the hostels and enjoying the sights. But plans change and now the three girls are thrown back together in their old stomping ground.
The title CRAZY HOT describes the girls’ summer perfectly. When Eliza realizes her father’s new girlfriend needs a couple au pairs to take care of her kids, who better to call then her best friends Jacqui and Mara? It’ll give them the perfect opportunity to hang out together for one last summer since they’ll all be living in the same mega mansion. But hanging out is pretty well the last thing that happens. Eliza ends up with a ring on her finger, one she can’t decide if it’s a promise ring (she’s hoping that’s the case) or an engagement ring; Jacqui’s being hounded by two of the hottest fashion photographers in the world, and Mara’s left alone, playing au pair with the kids and trying to ignore the fact her ex-boyfriend is only a strip of beach away.
I really liked CRAZY HOT and thought it was a great wrap up to the AU PAIR series. Even though the girls’ friendship is faced with numerous ups and downs, with each girl feeling alienated from the others at some point in the story, by the end Eliza, Mara and Jacqui are at the right place in their lives and the friendship between them is as strong as ever.
The Au Pairs: CRAZY HOT is the fourth and final book in Ms. De La Cruz’s popular AU PAIRS series. Visit her online at
Lisa
Enchanting Reviews
April 2008
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Contemporary YA
Simon Pulse
ISBN# 1-4169-4808-2
271 Pages
$9.99
Trade - Available Now
Rating: 4.5 Enchantments
Eliza, Jacqui and Mara never thought the three of them would end up spending yet another summer together in the Hamptons; after all, they all had separate plans for the summer-Eliza is busy opening her boutique on Main Street; Jacqui thought she’d be spending the summer working for the Perrys, and Mara was certain she’d be spending the next few months traipsing across Europe with her boyfriend, writing articles on the hostels and enjoying the sights. But plans change and now the three girls are thrown back together in their old stomping ground.
The title CRAZY HOT describes the girls’ summer perfectly. When Eliza realizes her father’s new girlfriend needs a couple au pairs to take care of her kids, who better to call then her best friends Jacqui and Mara? It’ll give them the perfect opportunity to hang out together for one last summer since they’ll all be living in the same mega mansion. But hanging out is pretty well the last thing that happens. Eliza ends up with a ring on her finger, one she can’t decide if it’s a promise ring (she’s hoping that’s the case) or an engagement ring; Jacqui’s being hounded by two of the hottest fashion photographers in the world, and Mara’s left alone, playing au pair with the kids and trying to ignore the fact her ex-boyfriend is only a strip of beach away.
I really liked CRAZY HOT and thought it was a great wrap up to the AU PAIR series. Even though the girls’ friendship is faced with numerous ups and downs, with each girl feeling alienated from the others at some point in the story, by the end Eliza, Mara and Jacqui are at the right place in their lives and the friendship between them is as strong as ever.
The Au Pairs: CRAZY HOT is the fourth and final book in Ms. De La Cruz’s popular AU PAIRS series. Visit her online at
Lisa
Enchanting Reviews
April 2008
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