I find it interesting in some of the reviews that I’ve read
for this book, that a lot of people said that there was no point to it – that
it was more filler than anything else. I would like to disagree. Although in
some respects there were some ‘filler’ moments, a lot of what occurred in
Masquerade, I have a feeling, impacts what happens in book 3.
So it’s been a few months since the events in Blue Bloods,
Schuyler and Oliver are in Venice tracking down her grandfather, Charles is
still visiting Allegra, Mimi feels victorious because Jack has strengthened
their bond, Bliss is still grieving Dylan’s death and is having a lot of
blackouts, and then there’s the introduction of the new character Kingsley.
Schuyler does find her grandfather but he tells her that her grandmother lead
her astray – he can be of no help to her…until he shows up in New York and
decides to help her anyway. I really liked the character of Lawrence Van Alen,
he reminds me a lot of Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter series.
Still don’t care for the character of Mimi Force, I mean,
sheesh. Yeah, I understand that her and Jack are bonded to be together, but
c’mon. If you keep trying to force Schuyler and him apart, he’s going to want
her even more. Speaking of, although the masquerade kiss was cute and the
‘sweet dreams’ bit was adorable, I still thing there needed to be more
Jack/Schuyler fluff in this book. Hopefully, though, Mimi has learned her
lesson with her almost blood burning near the end there.
I had a feeling something was going on with Bliss that had
to deal with the Silver Bloods. The blackouts weren’t normal. The dreaming
about a beast wasn’t normal. Add in the article at the end of the book about
Maggie – that basically describes Bliss to a T – and the fact that her father
has an emerald called Lucifer’s Bane and I honestly think that she is the
Silver Blood/or her father is housing a Silver Blood. Quite curious to see how
this goes – especially with the unexpected appearance of Dylan (wait! Wasn’t he
dead?!) at the end of the book claiming that he knows whom the Silver Blood is.
Two things I didn’t like with this book: Charles plan to
adopt Schuyler. Um, excuse me? But Cordelia did
state in her will that Schuyler is an emancipated minor aka she doesn’t need a
guardian. Hopefully someone realizes this in the next book, because with her
living with the Forces it’s going to make it harder for their to be fluff
between her and Jack. The other thing that I didn’t care for was the whole
Schuyler/Oliver storyline. That was the only redeeming quality in the last book
was that they were just friends. That got blown to bits after she makes him her
human familiar (ew) and realizes that he’s been in love with her forever. Le
sigh. Bad plot, de la Cruz, really bad plot line.
Final rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Much better than the last
book. Characters that were flat start to come to life, intrigue increases, and
new characters are fun.
Bookshelf worthy? The cover art is quite interesting and I
already own the whole series, so yeah.
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