Masquerade Summary Part 2

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Most of you are aware that Jimmy Falon is a great talk show host for MSNBC and does a spoof of Robert Pattinson called Bothered. Here's the link to his newest video. Robert is Bothered by Valentine's Day- http://robertisbothered.com . And now back to my summary of Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz.
We left off with Schuyler and her dilemma of having Oliver as her familiar or not. She does. He becomes attached to her and now she's thinking she made a mistake. Schuyler becomes more involved with Jack which is really bugging Mimi. (Jack's immortal bonding partner; born as twins in this cycle.) She starts to get involved with the dark matter and summons a Silver Blood to take Schuyler. It fails and attacks Bliss and a few other Blue Bloods in the Repository. Mimi was found guilty for conjuring up the Silver Blood and gets sentenced to being burned with back fire- the only thing that can actually 'Kill' a Blue Blood.

Since Schyuler is the daughter if Allegra Van Allen (aka Archangel Gabriel) she should be able to do the blood trial and prove if Mimi is guilty or innocent. (The blood trial is where Allegra- in this case Schulyer- would drink the blood of the accused- Mimi Force- to find out the truth of the situation.) Schuyler goes to Italy with Lawerence (her grandfather) to do the blood trial and she turns out to prove Mimi innocent and that Kingsly was the one to actually summon the Silver Blood. Mimi had fainted from the incident and was unable to complete the ritual. We later find out that Kingsley is a reformed Silver Blood and was only acting on orders from the Regis (which is the leader of the Conclave- Charles Force.)

And that's it for Masquerade! Hope you enjoyed my summary even though it was quite bland. Sorry it took so long this time but I've been very distracted. --Lell

Masquerade Summary Part I

Dear Fellow Twilighters,

Listening to Into the Ocean by Blue October..... wait, it's The Great Escape now, by Boys Like Girls.
My school's full orchestra (The Cinco Symphony) has been named 2010 Texas Music Educator's Association Honor Full Orchestra (T.M.E.A. for short)! This is a big event for us. It means that we are the BEST OF THE BEST full orchestra out of all of Texas. This is even bigger than the time our symphony visited Chicago for the Midwest Clinic last year. Also, my pre-AP English teacher told our class about this website called Shelfari. It's like the 'Facebook' of avid readers. I have my Shelfari bookshelf on My Vampire Venom now; just before the quotes.

To get to my main point now- VAMPIRES! I finished Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz last week and I'm ready to write my summary! ***SPOILER ALERT***

We left off in Venice, Italy, where Schuyler and Oliver are on the hunt for Lawrence Van Allen; Schuyler's grandfather. They eventually find him and convince him to help in the search for the Silver Bloods- Croatan. In the mean while between school and life, Schuyler is going to meetings about the 400 Ball (the induction ceremony for Blue Bloods, no humans aloud!) and Mimi Force (the antagonist) is planning the after party. A masquerade ball! Schuyler steals a secret kiss from who know which boy in her love triangle at the party and quickly returns home. Dylan starts acting up and suspicions arise as to if he's a Silver Blood or not. He ends up disappearing.

Bliss (Mimi's right hand girl, and Schuyler's new found friend) a Blue Blood from Texas, is experiencing difficulties in her transformation. Her Black outs are getting worse; on one occasion she ends up on the bottom of a lake and a mysterious new Blue Blood boy saves her. Is he Dylan? Anyone? Well we're getting there. He ends up to be Kingsly Martin, a reformed Silver Boll and venator (truth seeker in Italian). Mimi is taking an interest in dark matter and spells, with Kingsly as her guide, and Schuyler taking an interest in Jack Force, Mimi's human 'twin' and immortal bond partner. Mimi doesn't like this.

Schuyler goes into hibernation, not good, and Oliver takes her to Dr. Pat, the Blue Blood specialist (and his aunt), and she says that Schuyler's human bloods cells were being taking over by the Blue Blood cells and that she should take a human familiar soon. (A human familiar is the human a Blue Blood chooses as their main source to suck the blood out of; she picks Ollie.) The only problem, she thinks, is that her relationship with him will be ruined because preforming the 'Sacred Kiss' (the sucking of blood) makes a deep connection between vamp. and human familiar.

More next time; I'll keep you in suspence! --- Lell

p.s. Sources: http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php/books/title/masquerade (for the cover of Masquerade)