Review: Read to my Heart's Content Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2012
Blood Amalgam is one of those stories where I enjoyed the concept if not the actual characters.  I know that doesn't make sense but let me explain.Wyatt, our protagonist, is a college guy that loves to party with lots of friends and tends to stick to the facts.  I wanted to like him but I just felt like he was flat, even though his bloodlines are complex.  Well, there was two characters I liked a lot but they were in the prologue.  In fact the prologue was written very well and pulled me in immediately. I liked Arthur and Felix a lot.But then it had to jump to present time and that's when I just lost some interest.  But I am one of those people who cannot stop reading a book unless it is just a lost cause, because I cannot stand to not know what happened even if I didn't enjoy the story.Blood Amalgam had me on the fence most of the time.  I loved the idea of a person having four dominant supernatural bloodlines running through them at a time.  That was very interesting.  I also enjoyed the small history we get on the Native American nation concerning skin walkers and shamans.Unfortunately, there was so much going on that at times it became too confusing to be interesting.  There was one theme that seemed to run through the book a lot: the amount of partying these guys did.  No, I am not a prude but it seemed like every time something happened they were drinking and toking.  Some very devastating accidents happen in the story that most people would be very choked up about but I just couldn't feel the emotion from Wyatt.And then on to the dialogue between Wyatt and Gretchen was just too insta-love for me.  And I really don't think college girls walk around ending every sentence with "lover".  That was a major pet peeve of mine for Gretchen.I wanted to really like this book because of all the amazing supernatural elements involved but many actions seemed too forced instead of flowing through the plot.I had to give it 2 stars.