The Mister

The Mister is a 2019 romance novel by E. L. James.[3]

The Mister
AuthorE. L. James
Audio read byDominic Thorburn, Jessica O'Hara-Baker[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreRomance
Set inLondon, Cornwall and Albania, 2019[2]
Published16 April 2019
PublisherVintage Books
Media typePrint: paperback
Pages624
ISBN978-1984898326
823.92
Websitewww.eljamesauthor.com/books/the-mister/

Plot

English aristocrat Maxim Trevelyan inherits the Earldom of Trevethick after the sudden death of his elder brother, Kit. He sleeps one time with his sister-in-law Caroline, who was his lover but had chosen his brother instead of him. He falls for his Albanian undocumented immigrant housemaid, Alessia Demachi. He finds out about her many talents and her past life. He takes her to his place in Cornwall when two unauthorised people came to his apartment searching for Alessia. He introduces Alessia to sexual pleasure and enjoys her company. At first she has no idea of Maxim's title but finds out and decides to run away. Maxim stops her and reveals his affections for her and they reconcile. Alessia reveals the truth about her abusive betrothed who kidnaps her when they are in England. Alarmed, Maxim confronts Caroline and goes after Alessia to Albania. Due to the absence of her documents and passport, she travels with her fiancée through another route. Maxim reaches her home and asks for her hand in marriage and Alessia enters soon after where she reveals the truth about her fiancée to her father and tries to get Maxim to be married to her. The novel ends with Alessia's father threatening Maxim to marry his daughter and them being together.

Reception

The Mister received mixed to negative reviews by literary critics, with review aggregator Book Marks reporting three negative and two positive reviews among 6 collected.[4] The Guardian described it as "A coked-up lord bonks a trafficked Albanian immigrant as the Fifty Shades of Grey author swaps BDSM for dispiritingly creepy power games" and adding that "There is a complete dearth of emotional maturity that is genuinely unsettling."[5] Jezebel wrote "the narrative is so committed to sexualizing Aleissa's vulnerability and powerlessness that the result is offensive."[6] The Atlantic said it was "hopelessly retrograde and dismally unentertaining."[3] In a positive review, Booklist stated that “the book’s belief in the infinitely transformative power of love will hit the sweet spot for readers looking to be swept away.”[7]

It featured on the podcast series 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, a podcast that discusses literature that the two men "are probably going to hate".[8]

Film adaptation

On February 25, 2020, it was announced by Variety that The Mister would be adapted into a film produced by Universal Pictures.[9]

References
  1. "The Mister" – via Amazon.
  2. "The Mister". www.eljamesauthor.com.
  3. Gilbert, Sophie (18 April 2019). "The Indelible Awfulness of E. L. James's 'The Mister'". The Atlantic.
  4. "Book Marks reviews of The Mister by E. L. James". Book Marks. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  5. Cain, Sian (17 April 2019). "EL James's The Mister – turns out books and sex can be this bad" – via www.theguardian.com.
  6. Faircloth, Kelly. "E.L. James's The Mister Fucks a Duck". Jezebel.
  7. Maguire, Susan (April 2019). "The Mister". Booklist.
  8. "Episode 41 – Handsome Buttocks – 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back".
  9. Kroll, Justin (25 February 2020). "Movie Rights to 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Author's 'The Mister' Land at Universal (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
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