Alessia maxim leaked (photos)

In the new book, we are told that Maxim is very taken with the alluring and enigmatic Alessia Demachi.

James said of her new novel: “Maxim and Alessia have led me on a fascinating journey and I hope that my readers will be swept away by their thrilling and sensual tale, just as I was while writing, and that, like me, they fall in love with them.”

The way these two meet is…something, as Alessia is the new maid (daily) that Maxim didn’t know he had. If Maxim says this about his former maid leaving and Alessia coming in: “Well, I was a little surprised that she upped and left without so much as a good-bye and Miss Albania took her place. No one told me.” – there’s a problem. Several problems in fact.

Some of the conflict in this overarching story is Alessia thinking that Maxim is with someone and that she’s not good enough for him, and the other part is Maxim thinking that Alessia thinks he’s with someone and that he’s totally bad for her. (External narrator: And the woman called Rose thinks it would be good for them to talk to each other and shave 100 pages from this conflict.) The minor characters have bit parts to play, but they’re never developed beyond giving something for Maxim and Alessia to pull on in terms of rolling commentary, conflict, or background noise. Even with the interactions between the two trying to get to know each other, it’s a laundry list of things and the interactions feel too rigid.

Somehow the people who are looking for Alessia find her and Maxim – “I’m so freaking tough, I’m Metal Batman” – jumps in to save the day more than a few times. The issue of human trafficking is treated as an afterthought, more of a matter of drawing attention to that Maxim is in the presence of a woman who has never slept with a man. Meaning Maxim spends pages mulling over her virginity in a fetish-type way. (Oy.) And there is period sex in here, also like Fifty Shades. *sighs*