Week 4 Review: The Mister

From Goodreads:
London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. 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 noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It’s a role he's not prepared for and one that he struggles to face.

But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who's recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past.  Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she's an alluring mystery, and Maxim's longing for her deepens into a passion that he's never experienced and dares not name. Just who is Alessia Demachi? Can Maxim protect her from the malevolence that threatens her? And what will she do when she learns that he's been hiding secrets of his own?

From the heart of London through wild, rural Cornwall to the bleak, forbidding beauty of the Balkans, The Mister is a roller-coaster ride of danger and desire that leaves the reader breathless to the very last page. 

My Review:
I enjoyed this book, but I am pretty glad that it is a stand alone, because these characters don't deserve to be put though the eventfulness of another book, and their story had a good close. I enjoyed getting to know Alessia and Maxim, and watching their relationship unfurl! And boy, did they have things to deal with! 

This book almost completely not BDSM. There's one scene with handcuffs, but that's not with Alessia, so it's not a main focus of the book. But these are different characters, well, it is almost full to the brim with sex. Well, once things got going with the main characters!

There are one or two things that I didn't like. That Maxim thought that his brother killed himself. At first, he didn't want to think about it, like it wasn't true. And then he was talking to his brothers widow, and she believed it, as well. And I'm like, well, you haven't really given us a reason why. Maybe it was the stress of being the perfect heir, then holding the title, but it wasn't really concrete enough for me, personally, and my struggles with depression. Which is different for everyone, but I didn't like it. 

And I didn't really like their power imbalance. He's just become an English Lord, and she's an illegal immigrant who English isn't her first language, and is his cleaning lady. Plus there's the whole she's a virgin thing. So didn't really enjoy that, but I don't think he took advantage, but it still wasn't great for her! 

I enjoyed this book, I enjoyed their romance, and I had a great time reading it! 

Author: E.L. James
Read: January 23rd, 2022
Source: Bought
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2022 Book!
Publisher: Vintage
Published: April 16th 2019

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