Review: Four, and slowly dropping -- plot's being stretched out a bit too much...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
Still a "4-minus", though I'm getting a bit tired of the "whiny, drama queen" main character, who continues to, at least mentally, try to return to his "normal" family life, impossible as his family is no where near "normal". His "late teens, pretending to be adolescent" attitude makes him more than a bit unlikable at times.He does seem to be (slowly) moving beyond "romantically staring into her eyes as the house burns down around him", something that should have been washed out of his line genetically while roaming plains filled with lions,I'm still pondering the "why's" of the insertion of this book. Justin Slade, infected with the vampire virus, goes to magic school in attempts to cure himself. While at school, he meets his sister, who's supposedly his opposition in the series end-game and, actually strikes up somewhat of a friendship.His magic training is at the rudimentary level, being placed in classes with students less than half his age. He appears to learn very little, though his school placement does put him in position to stymie (or help, difficult to tell) an age-old plot & adversary.He also gets cured in the end, though his education plays no role beyond putting him in the right place (at the wrong time?)...