Joss Stirling's novella, Challenging Zed (2013) is a beautiful short story to accompany the fictional, fantasy novel, Finding Sky (2011), giving the reader an insight to the struggles Zed had been going through before meeting Sky and how much she truly helped him.
I found reading this short story helped to give me a better understanding of the Benedict family and their relationship: how they help each other out, their personalities and savant powers, along with how Zed gets along with each of them individually.
I thought it was lovely to see a lot of the focus being made on Zed's brothers and how despite them having that normal and annoying brotherly relationship, when Zed desperately needs help and moral support from his family, they all stick together and help show their brother that they are all there whenever help is required (even when he is acting like an idiot and a jerk to his family and school teachers).
Joss Stirling also did a fantastic job of incorporating Zed's past back to when he was nine-years-old into the story, allowing the reading to truly understand how much times have change and the pain and sadness that weighs him down due to his gift, having to witness the criminal acts happening around the world.
This novel goes to proove how complex some characters can really be especially when supernatural powers are involved. The perfect combination of humour, romance and aciton. Definitely a lovely short story for anyone who has read the Finding Sky novel to read.
I am looking forward to reading Burning Yves (2015) based on the following novel, Stealing Phoenix (2011).
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