For those of you have been following my reviews, I tend to
only write reviews on books that I felt were well written and kept me
interested. Fifty Shades of Grey has had so much publicity and people who don’t
typically read romance, including men, have heard of the novel, so I decided to
read it and review it no matter what I concluded.
Anastasia Steele graduates from a Washington college, fresh into the work
world and a virgin in the sexual world.
The first man she meets, Christian Grey a billionaire, through a final
project for school decides to claim her.
Christian wants Ana to sign a contract as his
submissive. This means she must do
whatever he wants sexually as he’s the dominant.
Ana falls in love with Christian, yet he doesn’t seem to
reciprocate more than many sexual acts minus the emotion.
I became intrigued with E
L James’ novel at the point of Christian offering Ana the contract and
wondered how she would react.
After further reading, I felt a subplot or two would have
moved the story deeper. The conflict
remained stagnant as it didn’t shift in intensity at any point as Ana’s
reaction to the different sexual escapades mirrored one another.
I did enjoy E L James
variation in word choice and the ending leads you directly to the next
novel - Fifty Shades of Grey is the
first of a trilogy. E L James is commendable in her ability to market her work,
originally self-published, to create growing interest and have her work
currently retained by Random House.
I’ve talked with many who’ve also read the novel and have
heard everything from “boring” to “I devoured all three novels.” Guess you’ll have to read it for yourself :-)
Enjoy,
Dawn
Thanks for the review, Dawn. I haven't read any of these yet but I've heard everything from "OMG, you must read this" to "Eh, they were okay" so they've been put on my TBR list (*sigh* and I was just beginnning to get that pile under control!).
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Opinions are from one extreme to another...I never hear anything in between on this novel. If or when you get to it, let me know what you think:)
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