This is a very adult book and one that is aimed at over 18’s.
This review does contain adult material and you have been warned.
Description:- When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind – until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
The unworldly, innocent Ana is shocked to realize she wants this man, and when he warns her to keep her distance it only makes her more desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her – but on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success – his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving adoptive family – Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a passionate, physical and daring affair, Ana learns more about her own dark desires, as well as the Christian Grey hidden away from public scrutiny.
Can their relationship transcend physical passion? Will Ana find it in herself to submit to the self-indulgent Master? And if she does, will she still love what she finds?
Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.
Review:- This is not my normal cup of tea, but several of my fellow book bloggers and friends whom I share similar tastes in books read it and loved it. So I bowed to peer pressure and gave it a read. The first half of the book I wasn’t hooked, I kept reading but I hadn’t found any love for the characters. Not forgetting how poorly written it is, a good edit and removal of repeating phrases would have done this book wonders, but I stuck with it and I’m glad I did.
This book is definitely for the over 18’s, I certainly wouldn’t want a tweenage Twilight fan reading it. I knew this was originally written as Twillight fan fiction and was called Master of the Universe, thank God the name was changed. There are no vampires in this book however. I haven’t read the original, but I’m guessing that was removed. I didn’t compare it to Twilight so I think I enjoyed it more. Even though I loved Twilight I didn’t want the two getting blurred.
The story contains a lot of sex along with BDSM elements so isn’t going to be to everyone’s taste, I found Christian’s room of pain somewhat scary and if I had been Ana, I think I’d have legged but she stuck it out and actually seemed to enjoy bits of it.
Ana and Christian meet after Ana interviews him at his office, where he is a rich and successful businessman, for her college newspaper. There is something between them and Christian thinks she would make a good submissive for his sex games. Ana is only 21 and quite immature. I thought she was going to be a doormat, but I was wrong she held her ground against what she believed in.
Christian hasn’t had the best upbringing, he was abused by his parents, then he was adopted in the perfect family where he’s never felt good enough. Only to be abused by a family friend. So you can begin to understand why he feels the need to feel in control. However the stalker tendencies are a bit scary.
Just over half way through Christian broke through my barrier of I’m going to hate this book and won, now he’s forever etched in my brain and I could not put it down. Ana annoyed the life out of me with her talking to her inner goddess, constantly biting her lip and the fact she went from being a virgin who hadn’t even kissed a boy to being a sex goddess who gave up her virinity without a second thought for Christian. Their love blossomed, they changed each other and I routed for them. They brought out the best in each other.
I love the email exchanges they have between them, they talk more openly throughout them and it’s very sweet and flirty. There was a lot of tenderness between Ana and Christian and I loved watchiing their relationship grow and blossom. The latter part of the book I was hooked and couldn’t put it down. Plus, I heard they are considering Ian Somerhalder to play Christian in the film version, my guilt pleasure.
I would recommend Fifty Shades of Grey as a light and easy read, yes there are bits when you will blush, but it’s not too bad and the love story in there is a very sweet one. I can guarantee you will be routing for them just like I am right until the end. If you can oversee the bad writing and repeated phrases, the book really is so compelling I couldn’t put it down. And on to the second book which I’m told is a lot better.
Disclaimer:- I purchased this book to read.
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