Fifty Shades of Grey copies worldwide by June 2015. It has been translated into 52 languages, and set a record in the United Kingdom as the fastest-selling paperback of all time. Critical reception of the book, however, has tended towards the negative, with the quality of its prose generally seen as poor. Universal Pictures and Focus Features produced a film adaptation, which was released on 13 February 2015 and also received generally unfavourable reviews. The second and third volumes of the trilogy, "Fifty Shades Darker" and "Fifty Shades Freed", were published in 2012. "", a version of "Fifty Shades of Grey" being told from
Maestra (book) Maestra (book) Maestra is a 2016 erotic thriller novel by British author Lisa Hilton, writing under the penname of L.S. Hilton, and the first book in a trilogy. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 10 March 2016 through Zaffre Publishing and was released in the United States on 19 April of the same year, through G.P. Putnam's Sons, who also re-released "Maestra" in the UK. "Maestra" has received comparisons to E. L. James's popular "Fifty Shades" trilogy, and Hilton received a three-book deal and a prospective film based on "Maestra"'s first draft. Sales for "Maestra" have