6/28/2023 0 Comments Sequel to the mister by el james“The Mister was down on Darker’s first day, which is not unexpected Darker was part of a series that connected to so many people. “Goodness, what could compete with Fifty Shades, though? That was a phenomenon,” said Kate McHale, fiction buyer at Waterstones. Fifty Shades of Grey, James’s first novel, has sold more than 6m copies to date and is the bestselling novel of all time in Britain. Darker, which retold the second book in the Fifty Shades trilogy from the perspective of Christian Grey instead of his paramour Anastasia Steele, sold 86,000 physical copies in its first week on sale, while Grey, its predecessor, sold almost 400,000 physical copies in its first week. It’s that it’s bad in ways that seem to cause the space-time continuum itself to wobble, slightly, as the words on the page rearrange themselves into kaleidoscopic fragments of repetition and product placement.” But according to the Bookseller, this is the highest single week of sales for an adult novel since Dan Brown released Origin in July 2018, and the highest first-week sales for any novel since James’s own Darker in November 2017.īut while readers might have preferred James’s latest erotic offering to anything else on the shelves last week, sales of The Mister fall short of the Fifty Shades books, revealing the public’s partiality for kink. “Is EL James’s ghastly post-Fifty Shades book her worst yet?” asked the Telegraph, giving it one star while the Atlantic said: “It’s not just that The Mister is bad.
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