I just felt like Cruz is either running out of ideas for this series or confused about where she wants to take the story. Deming looks to be a promising character and brings some interesting background to this story.Īs with all of Cruz’s book this book was well-written and easy to read. Mimi is quickly becoming a favorite character of mine as a reader you begin to sympathize with her in this book and learn more about why she is who she it. It does look like Cruz is trying to expand the storyline by telling more of it from Mimi’s perspective and by adding in the new character of Deming. Blyss is left out of the story completely, leaving me puzzled as to what has happened to her. Jack and Schuyler don’t get much page space and this is disappointing. Deming is a Venator from Shanghai that is trying to help Mimi solve this case. After hearing about this for a while we switch to another perspective, this time from a new character named Deming Chen. The Conclave is threatening to take the vampires back underground. Mimi is now leading the Conclave and trying to solve a crime involving an internet video that shows a vampire being burned alive if she can’t figure out where the information is being leaked she is in trouble. We don’t spend much time with them before Cruz switches to telling the story from Mimi Force’s perspective.

The book starts with Jack and Schuyler and we get a brief glimpse of them escaping captivity and taking off to try and find the last gate.

Many of the major players from previous books are not even mentioned. The story doesn’t progress much and we are only given painfully short glimpses into what is happening to Schuyler and Jack. This was the weakest book in this series by far.

There is a novella due out for this series in December 2010 called, Bloody Valentine the sixth book is going to be titled, Lost in Time, and is planned for an October 2011 release. This is the fifth book in the Blue Bloods series by Cruz. Stand Alone or Series: 5th book in the Blue Bloods series

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