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Melissa de la Cruz

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Young Adult, Paranormal Fiction, Fantasy

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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, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series 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.

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 Chron ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 795,253 ratings · 52,887 reviews · 187 distinct works • Similar authors

	Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 143,896 ratings — published 2006 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masquerade (Blue Bloods, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 92,228 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revelations (Blue Bloods, #3) 3.90 avg rating — 79,212 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 67,435 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Misguided Angel (Blue Bloods, #5) 3.93 avg rating — 39,982 ratings — published 2010 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in Time (Blue Bloods, #6) 4.04 avg rating — 28,036 ratings — published 2011 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Isle of the Lost (Descendants, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 27,849 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloody Valentine (Blue Bloods, #5.5) 3.97 avg rating — 23,308 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alex and Eliza (Alex & Eliza, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 21,510 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 21,936 ratings — published 2011 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death”
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“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”
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“we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.”
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What would you like to read for a discussion opening May 1st? (Please only vote if you will follow-up if your choice wins.)

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
2014, 432 pages, 4.03 stars
Kindle $9.99, used print $4.50 and up

5 votes, 33.3%

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
1990, 430 pages, 4.26 stars
Kindle $6.83, used print $2.18 and up

4 votes, 26.7%

Mountain Man by Keith C. Blackmore
2012, 514 pages, 3.98 stars
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
2011, 352 pages, 3.83 stars
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1 vote, 6.7%

Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
2012, 352 pages, 3.64 stars
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1 vote, 6.7%

Feed by M.T. Anderson
2004, 299 pages, 3.54 stars
Kindle $5.07, cheap print

1 vote, 6.7%

Our Dried Voices by Greg Hickey
2014, 234 pages, 3.5 stars
Kindle $2.99, used print $4.99 and up

1 vote, 6.7%

Thinner Than Thou by Kit Reed
2005, 336 pages, 3.2 stars
$7.99 Kindle, super cheap used print

1 vote, 6.7%

Eruption by Adrienne Quintana
2015, 288 pages, 4.22 stars
$6.49 on kindle, used print $7.56 and up

0 votes, 0.0%

Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz
2013, 320 pages, 3.6 stars
$9.99 Kindle, super cheap used print

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message 1: by Deborah

Apr 26, 2014 10:46AM

was wondering if you are going to continue the series for "The Ring and the Crown"? Iniside the book it says it is a series but here on your site it says 1 book?

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