- Young adult fiction, Wealth, Rich families, Secrets
De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother.
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Unpretentious, contemporary, raw and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Melissa De La Cruz
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781423101260
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