This was a fascinating - and infuriating - read. Considering the immediate response that a significant portion of the population has when faced with folks like Michael Schmidt and his fellow frat boys, it's easy to be royally pissed off about this book's topic even before you start reading. As Max Marshall lays out the labyrinthine ties among these privileged little criminals, it just gets easier and easier to be so, so angry about the disparities in our justice system, where boys like this - with money and influence and a lack of melanin - do significant damage to a significant number of people, and barely get slaps on the wrist, while those who don't have those privileges end up rotting for life in a jail cell for much smaller offenses. The trend of justice not really having been carried out for any of these punks, that the offending fraternities were able to re-form at the College of Charleston following initial disbandment, and that for the most part, any changes to the Greek system at C of C were clearly just lip service, is abhorrent. Hopefully, karma comes for all of these guys in the future.

This true crime book about fraternity life will leave you speechless. The book goes into great detail about everything that can and does happen every year to new pledges of fraternities. This book will leave you shocked and amazed. A page turner that you will not want to put down.

I don't tend to read a lot of nonfiction, but this was so engagingly written and fast-paced, I couldn't put it down! Readers who enjoy true crime will not be able to put this title down!

Max Marshall has done an immense amount of research, and he ends up uncovering a story larger than he anticipated. This examination of fraternities, crime, and campus life is absolutely fascinating.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for this Advanced Readers Copy of Among the Bros by Max Marshall!

A very quick read and more than a little unsettling. Rich, white fraternity boys capitalized on the need for Xanax and cocaine on their College of Charleston campus. Mind numbing that 80 percent of of legislators and 85 percent of Supreme Court justices come from this talent pool. Even more disturbing is the lack of empathy for those who die due to addiction - it is almost like an inconvenience to the party schedule. Although I certainly don’t celebrate anyone’s death the story of Patrick Moffett and his family’s behavior- having another huge drug and alcohol fueled raged on their farm as a “life celebration “ did not make me sympathetic to their plight. Apparently as long as the black trigger man was apprehended and punished it did not seem to matter to them or the police that it could have been an order from another white “bro”. So many of the defendants in this drug ring are out leading their lives without any implications. Thank you to NetGalley for an advance reader copy. This would make a great Netflix expose. Suburb cover design too - kudos to whoever made that choice!

Thank you NetGalley and Harper for the e-ARC. Narrative Nonfiction and True Crime blend seamlessly in this book detailing a crime ring born in a fraternity house in Charleston. I grew up Greek Life adjacent, with many family members participating in them during college so it was interesting to see how this aspect of college has morphed over the years. The author, a fraternity brother himself, reports on a specific story of the downfall of specific fraternity brothers as they wind up in a world of mass drug dealing. This story reads like you're watching a true crime documentary play out in your head. It's expertly researched with such care. It's not a story about how tumultuous fraternity life is but the context is surely important (as you can gather from the cover). The twist is mind-boggling and the last line of the book had such an impression. Well done, Max Marshall.

This was an engaging book, and clearly the legwork was put in. But it still felt a little unfinished, which I suppose is the fatal flaw in many a recent true crime book.

An engaging, well-paced non-fiction book, high school libraries that serve student populations where the majority of graduates attend college and pledge fraternities would do well to include this in their collection as a cautionary tale. Thank you Net Galley for providing me the opportunity to read this book.

Don't be alarmed by those searing eyes on this creepy cover. This was a super engaging and fast-paced story of a drug ring at at College of Charleston fraternity. The descriptions of the people involved were compelling, the timeline was well laid out, and the background and information on fraternity life at C of C was fascinating. I picked this up after being frustrated by the three former fratboys that moved in next door to me and are incapable of acting with any amount of decency.