portable magic

I like vampire books.  I like books that look at things like vampires or fairies or zombies or anything else in a different way.  Blue Bloods is a vampire book that does that.  The vampires are fallen angels.  They can't die by mortal hands, but at various points in their lives they decide to go on to the next thing anyway, knowing they'll be "reborn" later.  When they reach roughly high school age and start becoming vampire again, they have memories of their past lives, and stuff.  It's really cool.

And aside from the premise of the story, I really couldn't deal with the book.  I get that despite the fact that I like YA books, and I like urban fantasy, I'm still not a teenage girl, so I'm not really their target demographic.  But...the most descriptive bits in the book were telling us what clothes people were wearing.  And they weren't even descriptive bits for the clothes, it wasn't like she wrote "she was wearing an asymettrical, floor length, satin red couture dress by Chanel, with draping over the left shoulder and pinned to the waist with a dimaond encrusted pin, and a slit from the toes going above her knee, but practically hidden in the way the dress fell except when she walked..."  No.  Instead the writing was "she was wearing a red Chanel dress."  The former I'd be able to imagine in my head, the latter means absolutely nothing to me.  I don't know enough about big name designers to see anything in a description that's just the name...  It was actually very off putting.

I'd read the rest of the books in the series if I found them at the library or if I got them for free.  But I definitely won't buy another one.