'Master of the Game' is a critically acclaimed and usually acknowledged as the best among the novels by Sidney Sheldon. It is a plot
fabricated as intricately as a spider’s web.
It starts with Kate’s ninetieth birthday and then goes into
flashback with Jamie McGregor’s hunt for diamonds and spans over six
generations in the lives of the fictional McGregor/Blackwell family. The
beginning of the plot is captivating but as the story moves on and the focus
gets shifted to the daughter Kate and grand-daughters Eve and Alexandra it
somehow loses a bit of its charm. It depicts the life and death, marriage and
divorce, pain and suffering of all the characters along with some intimate
scenes. The book closes abruptly at Kate’s ninetieth birthday with all her
relatives present and even after manipulating, pleasing, loving, killing and
hating the people around her for business she still feels she had acted proper.
It indicates the callousness and voracity of the people
during the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Similar to Sheldon’s other
novels the plot is fast moving and story-line is thrilling but it is like the
same gift being wrapped differently. Though lacking in a plot that moves you,
read it for Sidney Sheldon’s ability to depict a picture with a kind of unique elegance
that stays with you for a long time.
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Rohit Rajpal
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