Review: Master

Master by Julia Sykes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Master is the sixth book in the Impossible series, and it was another enjoyable read. If I’m being completely honest, this was not my favourite book in the series – in fact, of the full-length novels, this was my least favourite – but it was enjoyable enough that I had to round my rating up.

Although Master can be read as a standalone novel, you do much better to read this after Knight and Mentor. Master builds heavily upon the events that took place in Knight, bringing to a close the mystery introduced in book four. Mentor allows for a better understanding of why certain things played out, with Master making the somewhat disappointing ending of Mentor understandable. The romance within this one is a single story, the mystery can be understood without the prior books, but it is much better if you read Knight, Mentor, and then Master.

I think the reason Master is my least favourite of the Impossible books thus far is because of our heroine. I never really connected with her, and it made it difficult to care about what was happening. Add in that I worked out who the bad guy was as soon as they were introduced to us, and it was a case of working through a book as I held in my screams of ‘it is really obvious who it is, open your eyes to what is before you’. I think I would have just liked more of a backbone to our heroine – the women in the Impossible series are not the strongest heroines I have ever read, I will admit that – but I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish than I saw in our female lead in this one.

Although Master was not quite all it could have been, I did enjoy watching how the mystery came together and getting to see more of one of the characters I’d come to enjoy. I’m also super eager to dive into King, now.

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