The Mister
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4.2 • 409 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller—a thrilling and seductive Cinderella love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogy.
Clasping her plait at the base of her neck, I tug lightly, bringing her lips up to mine. "Alessia," I breathe, and kiss her again, softly, slowly. She stills in my arms, then brings her hands up to clutch my biceps, closing her eyes as she accepts me. I deepen the kiss, my tongue teasing her lips, and she opens her mouth. She tastes of warmth and grace and sweet seduction.
London, present day. Life has always been easy for Maxim Trevelyan, the "spare" to the earldom of Trevethick. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he's never had to work, and he's rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family's title, wealth, and estates, and the responsibility that entails. It's a role he's not prepared for and one he struggles to face.
But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who's recently joined his staff. Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she's an alluring mystery, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past. As Maxim's longing for her deepens into a passion he's never experienced and dares not name, he's left to wonder just who is Alessia Demachi? And can he protect her from the malevolence that threatens her?
From the heart of London through wild, rural Cornwall to the bleak, forbidding beauty of the Albanian Balkans, The Mister combines the sensuality of a modern Regency romance with the danger, desire, and adventure of E L James's captivating storytelling, leaving the reader breathless to the very last page.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this uneven tale of love and passion, James (the Fifty Shades series) crafts the contemporary equivalent of a Regency romance: a privileged English rake seduces the hired help, whose innocence reforms his wicked ways. Maxim Trevelyan, the newly minted Earl of Trevethick following his older brother's untimely death, prefers to lose himself in meaningless flings and his musical pursuits. But when he meets his new house cleaner, Alessia Demachi, an undocumented Albanian immigrant on the run from human traffickers, Maxim is surprised to feel protective of her. As he shelters her at one of his family's estates, the two succumb to mutual attraction, falling headfirst into a relationship that proves to be a sexual awakening for the virginal Alessia. When her enemies finally track her down, Alessia and Maxim must rise to the challenge to secure a happy future. The story's plausibility is undermined by the unbalanced power dynamic between the protagonists, Alessia's portrayal as a chess and music prodigy who's oddly oblivious of modern society, Maxim's initial sulky unlikability, and the depiction of Albania as hopelessly behind the times. Readers will cheer the occasional moments when Alessia claims her own agency, but there's little else to recommend this middling erotic romance.
Customer Reviews
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Good, but was expecting a little more. Definitely will read the next to see what happens
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It is a fresh look at life and love. Accomplished people looking for normalcy.
Liked It Until It Ended Abruptly
This book isn’t a series, but it ends like it’ll be continued in the next book. I enjoyed reading it, but the end was stupid and there is a lot of info missing. Maxim expressed distrust towards his brothers right hand. What happened with that? Both Maxim and Caroline think the brother actually committed suicide. Did he or did he not? If he did, why? Not answered. What about Caroline’s actions? Is she a would be villain? Not implied, but she wasn’t likable and her story was never brought to light, but she was in the book A LOT. Kinda bitter about there not being a continuation of the story. This deserves a 2nd (and maybe even 3rd) book to settle all the lose ends.