![]() ![]() ![]() And then these other kidnapped women becomes like a non-issue once she falls in love with Maxim. The most that’s said about them is Alessia hopes that they got away but she will never know for sure. For example, Alessia mentions that she was taken along with about four or five other girls and when she escaped they all make a break for it – and we never find out what happens to these other women. Sex trafficking is used as a plot device in the book and while it does make our heroine’s back story more harrowing (and admittedly, more gripping), I’m not sure if it’s handled all that well. If Cinderella had just escaped a couple of sex traffickers and was working in the UK as an illegal immigrant. And the beginning of The Mister kind of has a Cinderella feel to it. It can make for some interesting dynamics and conflict. We’re treading familiar territory James has already explored in her Fifty Shades series – impossibly rich guy, Maxim, falls for considerably less wealthy Alessia, his cleaner (or, as the Brits say, his daily.) I’m actually a big fan of ‘across the tracks’ romances where two people from two different class backgrounds fall for each other. ![]() Would it be better? Worse? Turns out, it’s hard to say. I can’t say I was a big fan of her Fifty Shades series but curiosity got the better of me and I wanted to see what her new novel would be like. I’m not sure what I was expecting with E.L. ![]()
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