It was eight years ago when the first
50 Shades Of Grey novel was published, and since then the Fifty Shades erotic trilogy has sold roughly 150 million copies. Now, author E.L. James is back with a new romance story in her latest novel
The Mister.
The Mister is set in present day London. Maxim Trevelyan is a good-looking English earl who is also a model-DJ-photographer-composer who has many lovers. When Maxim loses his elder brother, he inherits his family's nobel title and wealth along with a lot of responsibilities. But while he struggles to step-into this new role, his other big challenge is to fight his growing desire for a young woman, Alessia Demachi, who is the new maid at his home. Beautiful and musically gifted, Alessia is an Albanian immigrant who fled to England after escaping getting married to a criminal which was arranged by her father, and then being sold by sex traffickers. While Maxim's longing for Alessia deepens, he himself is hiding dark secrets of his own.
Just like
Fifty Shades trilogy focussed on billionaire Christian Grey and fresh-graduate Anastasia Steele's romantic relationship, James' latest book is about the unlikely love between a British aristocrat Maxim Trevelyan and an Albanian maid, Alessia Demachi.
How critics view the book:
Sophie Gilbert wrote for
TheAtlantic.com, "James is clearly—and self-confessedly—a fan of romance novels, and
The Mister seems to evoke the formula of historical romances of yore, when men were strong and complicated (and rich), and women were delicate and soothing (and helpless). But the genre itself moved on a long time ago."
Sian Cain writes for
The Guardian, "EL James's
The Mister – turns out books and sex can be this bad."
Dana Schwartz writes for
EW.com, "The Mister is E.L. James’ version of a straightforward romance. And where there are some genuinely fun moments in the Fifty Shades of Grey series — say, Christian broodingly saying, “Because I’m fifty shades of f—ed-up” —
The Mister is unoriginal and dull from the syntax up."
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