Misguided Angel (Blue Bloods, #5)

by Melissa de la Cruz

The glamorous Manhattan lives of the Blue Bloods have been threatened by the rise of the Silver Bloods. Schuyler seems to hold the key to their survival, but even she is struggling to concentrate on following her destiny. Life, and love in particular, just seem to keep getting in the way.

• ISBN10: 1423121287
• ISBN13: 9781423121282
• Publish Date: 26 October 2010
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Disney-Hyperion
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[Leah]

Soooo I'm finally finishing up the Blue Bloods series, I read the first four super quickly back when they were first released and then sort of... let the series go. It happens (I've got about four series to finish, and that's just of the paperbacks I own) and now I'm reading the series again.

This was a strange book for me, confusing. I couldn't remember what happened in The Van Alen Legacy, I don't know what Schuyler is doing, what the legacy is, how she and Jack have ended up on a boat, trying to escape, so it was all a bit baffling. But I reckon I've got a fairly decent grasp of what's going on going forward, so there's that. This did feel a bit disjointed, mind, because it focused on Schuyler and Jack, then went to Mimi, then went to this new girl Deming (who I loved) and there was no connection, well there was, but the stories didn't interlink with each other, like one review said it was like three short stories connected together.

I did however enjoy it once I got to grips with it, although I'm sure I'm still not 100% sure what is actually going on. Something to do with the devil? IDK.

I will finally get this series finished, I loved the first four books so much, they were some of my first vampire books, but I think I left it a little too late to really LOVE this series, because I am slightly confused and befuddled. I did LOVE Deming's story though. She was ace, although I was so sad about Paul. I actually liked Paul, and that whole storyline, with Mimi, was quite awesome and clever.

One day, when I don't have a humongous TBR pile, I will re-read this series properly so I can understand what's going on, because there is a LOT going on, these vamps certainly don't have it easy by any means!

[Baroness Book Trove]

Plot Summary
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.

My take on this book:: CAUTION!! THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! IF YOU DON’T WANT TO READ ANY SPOILERS PLEASE STOP READING NOW! IF YOU DO WANT TO READ SPOILERS CONTINUE ON! I WON’T ALWAYS HAVE SPOILERS THOUGH!!
Hi everyone. This is the fifth book in the series of Blue Bloods. I love this series if you haven’t tell. The way Melissa writes is very good and awesome. In this book she has four parts and the first three are with someone else.

Of course Melissa starts with Schuyler who is her main character as Sky is the character that the first few books were based on. Melissa never did any first person point of view which I think is good since first person is good for some books but for this one I believe that third person point of view is the best.

This book takes place a month after The Van Alen Legacy book left with Sky and Jake leaving Oliver and Mimi behind. They are now trying to figure out with where the third Gate of Hell is so that they could make sure that nothing bad is happening to it.

One of the things that I like about this book and the series is that all of the characters seem so real and that I can actually talk to them in real life. Even if they are vampires. What I also like is that yeah they are vampires who have lived for a pretty long time and yeah most of them are just supposedly “teenagers” and some people don’t think that they should be acting like 50 year olds. The way I think about this is that since they are able to relive all of their past lives and with that I believe eventually it would take a toll on the vampire especially in Mimi’s case on having to be older and try to lead these vampires that it will make the vampire act older and probably fell older than what they actually are. But that is just my idea on something like that. I also like how she goes back and forth about where the book is leading up to in the past to the present. Like in the first book with the Mayflower stuff from Cordelia’s past life and we go off to the present time.

I guess I don’t really have any dislikes….well besides the whole thing of that I just want someone to have a happy ending. I mean I was routing for Dylan and Bliss. ;’( Still sad that Dylan is gone. He was such a good character. The second couple I am routing for is a tossup between Jake and Sky and Kingsley and Mimi. I mean Kingsley and Mimi are like so cute with their bickering. Or at least in my head whenever I was reading about them they were cute. I also wonder if maybe Abbandon and Azrael were just young and thought they loved each other when they did their bonding that so long ago. Now that they are much older and maybe they might have found the people that they were supposed to fall in love with a long time ago now.

I think that this book is crucial for the plot because we find out about a new type of species. Yes there is more than just Angels, humans, and someone like Sky. We also find out about a new type of evil that our characters will have to deal with. I am also really really really hoping that Charles and Allegra get out of the White Darkness to help Mimi with the Coven and even more that Mimi can find Kingsley if she is ever able to. I am in love with this book series and I know that my mom has told me to critique these a little bit better but I am going to give this book another five stars.

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[anastasia]

I'm almost half way done this book. So far, its really boring.


----> so i have finally finished this book and there are no words to describe how disappointed i am.

the first five books were amazing!

however this book kind of ruined the series.



----> I guess you can say that I'm in between loving it and totally hating it.

To be honest it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good at the same time...
the book needed something more to make it more interesting ....

[Hixxup]

Damn cliffhangers!Good book I love how so many lives are separated, but intertwined so greatly. Can't wait for the next one to come out.

[Linda]

I was quite disappointed with this book. It felt very rushed, and none of the mysteries were really that mysterious. The fact that the book was chopped up with different parts for different characters' point of view made it even more un-even to read. With 1/2 stars, I wouldn't have given it more than 2.5 stars. However, this might have been an in-between book, with information needed for the next installment. Still, I won't go running to read the next book.