The Impossible by Mark Illis

The Blurb On The Back:

Bored? Confused? Desperate for something – anything – exciting to happen?

So is Hector Coleman. (And, yes, he does also have the worst name in history).

But unlike you, Hector is hanging from a windowsill five metres up, and his life is about to change in unbelievable ways.

If he doesn’t die first.

Want to find out why? Open this book. Hector will tell you. He’ll tell you that the impossible …

Just got real.

A comic-book-inspired adventure with a graphic-novel twist that will make you grateful your life is not as weird as Hector’s …

( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )

The Verdict:

Mark Illis’s YA novel (with illustrations by Bimpe Alliu) is a so-so take on superhero fiction in that it has some interesting ideas but the characters were all a little cookie cutter (although I believed in Hector’s relationship with Jason) and bland, the plot lacked urgency and pace and the “graphic-novel twist” unfortunately added little to the text because there simply aren’t enough of them to be meaningful.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.