Boy, did I have mixed feelings about this latest Blue Bloods novel. I wanted to love it because, really, I've loved them all. (Okay, maybe not the first book, but it was still pretty entertaining.) After reading about these characters for five books now, I feel completely invested in their lives, so it's disappointing when an entire book goes by without anything really happening. The story that had been built up over the four previous books went almost nowhere in this fifth installment, which seemed like it was written simply as a filler to tide us over until the next book comes out. And why is it that authors feel they have to write so many books in a series? The story could have ended with this fifth book, but I'm left waiting for a sixth book to be published.After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the five remaining gates that guard the earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silver Bloods.
Back in New York, Mimi has been elected Regent of a crumbling coven. Struggling with her heartache over the loss of Kingsley and with her overwhelming desire to destroy Jack, she must focus all of her energy on a perilous new threat. Vampires are being abducted and their captors are planning to burn them alive online…for all the world to see. Help arrives in the form of Deming Chen, a Venator from Shanghai, who must untangle the web of deceptions before the killers strike again.
As the young vampires struggle for the survival of the coven, they uncover a deadly secret, a truth first discovered by Schuyler’s mother during the Renaissance but kept buried for centuries. And as the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler to a terrible choice that will ultimately map the destiny of her heart.
I really like reading about Schuyler, Jack, Mimi and the gang. There were two very noticeable missing characters this time around, though: Kingsley (for obvious reasons) and Bliss. Where was Bliss? She's been a major character through four books now, and not even one mention of her in book 5? What? I did enjoy the interactions between Mimi and Oliver. Mimi has really grown on me over the series, and I enjoy reading her side of the story just as much as Schuyler and Jack's side.
As disappointed as I am with this book - it is, by far, the weakest book in the series - I can't find it in me to rate it lower than a 3. I really can't believe I have to wait until October to read the next book.
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