Join or Die by J. Adrian Ruth has so much potential, but two things brought it down a star. The first thing is the prologue because it needs to be clarified, especially since it is from the same point of view. Is it Alex or the other scion that was murdered before Alex came to the school? If it is the first, then it spoils everything, and when I first read it, I thought that was what had happened. However, as I took a couple of days to think it over, the more, I feel like the author was aiming for the latter, but forgot that people are not privy to that kind of knowledge. Also, if you are doing creatures, feel free to play around with it like I love how this one guy was expected not to have any abilities because the magic only goes onto females. And another thing, if a person dresses in black, it does not entirely make them depressed. I kept waiting for a sad vampire, but it lacked in that department. He had the identity crisis down pat.
I devoured it in one and a half days and would have finished it in a day if I didn't have to work in between.
If the author fixed those things, then there would be nothing holding this novel back, but I cannot help feeling like this book could be so much more.
4 out of 5 stars.
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