Review: Impossible – The Complete Series – Julia Sykes

This collection includes all three Impossible novellas: Monster, Traitor, and Avenger.

Ever since my parents’ violent deaths fourteen years ago, I’ve lived in complete emotional isolation. But that all changed when Sean Reynolds came along and rocked me to my core, making me question everything that I was. When his best friend Bradley Smith abducted me, my forced captivity with Sean proved my undoing as he relentlessly chipped away at the walls around my heart that I kept so carefully in place. As a doctor, it crossed my mind that I might be quickly falling prey to Stockholm Syndrome. But I knew that my intense connection with Sean was so much more than that. I was helpless to resist the allure of his beauty and his pain. And he ruined me.

Claudia Ellers’ life is irrevocably changed by her encounter with Sean Reynolds. As they come to know each other better, it becomes evident that they are bound much more tightly than either of them ever guessed, sharing an intertwined past that neither of them realized existed. Claudia finds herself torn between her intense, undeniable feelings for Sean and her hatred of the world of violence that he lives in. Can love blossom from a place of pain and betrayal? Or will Claudia find her world shattered and her heart ravaged by Sean Reynolds?

Warning: This series has scorching sex scenes involving light BDSM.

Series: Impossible, #1-3
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Publisher: Julia Sykes
Source: Provided by Author
Reviewer: Karen
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Dr. Claudia Ellers is kidnapped to save Sean Reynolds life. Bradley, Sean’s best friend kidnaps Claudia and then forces her to help Sean, who has a bullet in his shoulder. Sean and Bradley work for the Irish mob. Sean is the first man Claudia is attracted to in a long time. Claudia has a hard time getting close to people, but with Sean she seems to have an instant connection. Sean and Claudia are thrown together during an intense time and they grow close to one another. Claudia’s world is turned upside down and it slowly changes her.

I’m not sure I like Sean. He can be cruel, mean and rough and than other times he is tender and kind. He is a dominate man and wants Claudia to submit to him. One thing I can say, when Sean and Claudia are together, it is scorching hot.

This is a story about two people from different worlds who meet in an unexpected way. Sean and Claudia slowly evolve and are forced to make some hard decisions. It is a dark, edgy series that at times made me squirm. Sean and his friends are volatile and there is a lot of violence in this book. Some of the characters didn’t have any redeeming qualities. At times, I needed to take a break from the characters because they upset me and the story was so intense. This is an interesting, well written, dark story about the underbelly of life and the people who exist in it. Can good overcome evil and can people change for the better? .