Misguided Angel (Blue Bloods, Book 5) [Hardcover]

Melissa de la Cruz (Author)

Book Description

Release date: October 26, 2010

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 seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods.

 

As the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler closer to a terrifying crossroads--and a choice that will determine the destiny of all vampires.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Melissa de la Cruz (www.melissa-delacruz.com) is the author of many best-selling novels, including all of the books in the Blue Bloods series: Blue Bloods, Revelations, Masquerade, The Van Alen Legacy, Keys to the Repository, and Misguided Angel. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion Book CH; First Edition edition (October 26, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423121287
• ISBN-13: 978-1423121282
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, Angels on Sunset Boulevard, Girl Stays in the Picture, and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat.

Her books for adults include the novel Cat's Meow, the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and the tongue-in-chic handbooks How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less and The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-inch heels and Faux-Pas, and the Witches of East End series.

She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for many publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney's, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews.

Melissa grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. She majored in art history and English at Columbia University (and minored in nightclubs and shopping!).

She lives in Los Angeles and Palm Springs with her husband and daughter.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars A great series, but this one is just OK. November 28, 2010

By J. Prather TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Hardcover

I love the Blue Bloods series. The author has created a great group of characters and has invented a totally original and entertaining vampire mythology - not an easy thing to do these days. She writes great action scenes and always manages to infuse just the right amount of romance into her stories. Romance that is not over wrought or manufactured. All of these things still apply to this installment. The author's characters and writing are as masterful as always, but I found myself rather disappointed in the plot and it's structure.

This book is very short. At only 265 pages it often has a "bare bones" type feeling that was not present in the earlier books. Schuyler and Jack are in the story for the first 80 pages, then everything flips to Mimi back in New York. We only get back to Schuyler and Jack for a very short time at the end. This gave the story a very unbalanced feel and left me looking for the rest of it. I know the whole point of a series is that you have to wait for the next book, but the author seems to have cheated a bit here and given us just half of a story.

There's not any big news to be had, although a new character has been introduced that I hope gets to hang around. She was very instrumental in the ending which I felt was very anti-climactic. Just not a lot going on here. Unless you're a rabid fan, you can probably pass this one by and pick up again on the next one without losing much. That's a sad thing to say about any series, but unfortunately true about this one. Not a recommend unless you're a hyper fan and just can't stand it.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed in this one. November 8, 2010

By JessicaLoves

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I started reading the series last year, so I was a little late to the party but that doesn't mean that I appreciate them any less. I absolutely loved the first 4 and was anxiously awaiting Misguided Angel. It's not a bad book if you read it for what it is--a filler.
I went into this book thinking it would be a continuation of Schuyler and Jack and her figuring out her legacy, but Schuyler and Jack were barely in this book. Less than half, actually. The book's description is only about 1/3 truthful. They made it sound like there is so much of the Van Alen Legacy, Silver Bloods, Schuyler's mom, even Schuyler herself, but it stretches the truth a bit. Misguided Angel focuses more on Mimi.
I did really like seeing this different side of Mimi. She has had to mature and grow up very fast, especially when a teenage Blue Blood gets kidnapped and is threatened with Hellfire which will burn the vampire's soul forever. And even though she is doing all she can to take charge and run things, she is starting to realize that at her age she cannot do everything and not everyone is going to take her seriously, which makes her more determined to hold onto the control and save the kidnapped.
Oliver is still in the story, as well, since he is working at the Repository and his story intertwines with Mimi's which is pretty interesting.

What I didn't like was that these books have been leading up to this huge decision that Schuyler and Jack make to go against everything and everyone to be together and then it FINALLY happens...and then we barely see them. And when you do, it doesn't seem that....magical. Where did their spark and chemistry go?
And I did not like the new Venator Mimi brought in. She kept saying how good she was and that she always got the job done, but she kept making things worse. I hope she is not in the next one. But I do hope the next one actually goes somewhere. And I hope that Melissa De La Cruz goes back to switching view points every chapter instead of breaking the book up into parts. That made it seem even shorter and it was short enough already.

If you are only wanting to read this book for Schuyler and Jack, don't expect much of them, but if you have wanted to see more of Mimi, this is the book for you.

19 of 27 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Misguided Angel. A brief life. October 29, 2010

By Jessie Potts TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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This was a hard book to rate. On one hand de la Cruz always has great plotlines and deep violence. I adore Mimi and her viciousness as well as love how her character continually evolves into something more than the popular blonde girl. Her story was the story in this book. She wants Jack dead at her feet, but chooses the good of the many over revenge... for now. You see there is someone else taking Blue Blood teens and worse, Lucifer is still in the back round and at the back of everyone's minds. I also think this was a great move for de la Cruz (expanding the story lines to not revolve solely on Schuyler) this is going to be perfect for the books that come after the next couple. It will help keep the story line fresh, and the plot moving in different directions.

Now what I didn't like was that this book seemed shorter than others. Especially after Keys to the Repository, I was kind of hoping for a nice thick book to sink my teeth in to. The Vampire Academy series just got bigger as they went along, but it seems that the Blue Bloods series is getting smaller. Keep in mind the next installment, which comes out in December, is a novella as well. On top of that while I loved that it was revolved around Mimi, I felt like Jack and Schuyler should have gotten a bigger part. I mean we ended the last book with them finally being able to be open about their feelings and being with each other (minus Mimi's bounty hunters) and now we only see their plot line on the peripheral. Also what the heck is happening between Charles Force and Allegra Van Allen? They aren't even in the storyline. The next full length installment will be out in October 2011, but again I'm not sure how big that means. I have loved this series, and while I was not 100% happy with this book, there was enough good to keep me hooked and waiting for Bloody Valentine, which hopefully will be about Jack and Schuyler bonding.