Review: Fantastic series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
Faithless is book 9 in Erica Chilson's Mistress & Master of Restraint series.  This is not a stand alone book and if you are interest in reading this you should go back to book 1 (which isn't the best in the series so hang in there) and read the series through or it won't make any sense.I only discovered this series about 3 weeks ago and I have read all 9 books one after the other.  At 720 pages Faithless is a meaty read and never boring.  Faithless follows Faith Simpson's story or Syn as she goes by at Restraint.  We meet Faith when she is about to commence high school and the story timeline finishes  a day after book 8.  This story is very much about Faith and her journey and we learn fully about the game.  It was great to see characters and events we've already read about from a different perspective.This book made me very angry at times and had me in tears at other times.  This series is better than any TV soap.  Erica has done a fabulous job developing her characters and even through the stories overlap time wise we are not put through huge slabs of the same scenes over and over again.  It is very well done.I'm confused as to why the words "to be" are missing in each and every book.  For example.  I need punished instead of I need to be punished.  There are typos through this series - more than I'm used to but it is worth ignoring them and reading on.This series and what the characters go through is confronting, horrific, incestuous and entirely addictive and given it is set around the BDSM lifestyle the books don't contain nearly as much sex as you'd expect.If you want to get lost in a story for a few weeks, I'd highly recommend this series.