Review: Blue Bloods: After Life

Blue Bloods: After Life by Melissa de la Cruz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Schuyler has just sacrificed Jack in order to defeat Lucifer when she wakes up in 2020 New York.  Not only is the city not as she remembers it, but she also isn’t in her regular body and everyone else is different in some way.  She quickly finds out that she isn’t in her New York … she is in a different universe.  Here, Lucifer is still alive and the mayor of New York; Jack is also alive, but is Lucifer’s right-hand man.  Schuyler doesn’t know what is going on and then Kingsley contacts her.  He remembers their world and has his own ideas about what has happened.  Will Schuyler be able to defeat Lucifer again?

Blue Bloods: After Life is a spin-off of the original Blue Bloods series.  I found it interesting that the time jump brings the characters into the fall of the Covid-19 outbreak (in our world) and the vampires were taking advantage of a mysterious illness and the vaccine that was being released.  If this is a one-and-done spin-off book, it was fun and worth the read.  If this becomes a new series, though, I will need to save my thoughts to see where de la Cruz plans to go with the storyline.  It was a nice escape to revisit old characters and this might be the introduction needed to bring this series back into the hands of young readers.

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