Saturday, August 11, 2012

Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game: Review by Jatin Arora

Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game was novel authored by Tilly Bagshawe in 2009 as follow up of the critically acclaimed novel by Sidney Sheldon “Master of the Game”. Bestseller, much admired and trendy in 1982 the novel was worth to be renewed its essence with generation of today. This was accomplished by Tilly in her sequel to Master of the Game.

With lashing arguments over the worthiness and necessity of the sequel, Tilly Bagshawe still successfully famed her work in the heart of readers all over the world. As the word sequel suggest wholly, Mistress of the Game follows the story of powerful revenge, betrayal, lust, manipulation and lifelong conflicts between America’s royal family extends to their kids.
Reading a novel asks nothing but asks a lot sometime. Desire of reading, ability to read and determination of reading are must to read a novel. Sheldon’s novels are an artwork of imaginative and pragmatic writing, distinctive from the other world. But his works were not just stories, they derision the word novel and becomes EPICS. Thus, extending the epics was debatable over the skills and ability of the one who tries to follow it. Tilly bagshawe received both the fame and name of being a writer who follow up Sheldon’s work.
This tale is put in the picture in a flashback alike Master of the Game.

The design begins on the interment of powerful Kate Blackwell, who has departed this life at 92. In the scene Alexandra and her twin sister (Granddaughters to Kate Blackwell) had distinctive emotions of sorrow and silent happiness respectively. Alexander has a baby after she was married to Peter Templeton and is heavy with child, while Eve is married to Keith Webster and is also pregnant.

Alexandra dies after delivering a sweet little queen of Templetons and Blackwells. Peter and Robbie his son were in despair, while Peter named their sister “Alexandra” after he found her looking alike his wife. Alexandra and Eve were identical twins but could never share the love they got, smile they have and the beauty they lived with. It is implied that her companion, mousy plastic surgeon Keith Webster, hasn't fixed her ugly face and is constantly aware of the photographers hitting outside to take a photograph of her face. While Eve planned to get rid of the Templetons and make her child the next successor of Kruger-Brent Limited.

The story begins and ends with the competition between the
families to win over the Kruger Bent Limited and thus win over each other
Eve’s child and Lexi (Alexandra) compete for all their lives for the empire, after Robbie decides to leave the prestigious and magnificent life of being a Blackwell child. And he turns out to be a homosexual. Max grows in a different environment compared to Lexi. While she has a family that adores her, Eve channels her hatred and obsession to her son. Eve, furious that Keith marred her face so that she would never leave him, convinces her son to secretly loathe his father as well, and in the process, hate the Templetons as he grows up.

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