I feel like I might be the last woman in the world who hadn’t read this book… Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L James… It was available on the library’s website, so what the heck? People were raving about it; why not see what the hype is all about?
Anastasia Steele is a bright, young woman just about to graduate college when she does her roommate a favor and interviews rich, handsome, CEO Christian Grey. She can’t shake the physical attraction, and neither can he. However, Mr. Grey, in his late 20s, has acquired a taste for the BDSM lifestyle, and only wants to date Anastasia if she will agree to his kink. As a 22 year old virgin, this is her first foray into any type of romantic relationship, let alone one with so much risk… Of course, he is gorgeous, and so sexy, and rich… What will she choose?
The majority of this book is Christian and Anastasia’s two-steps-forward, one-step-back relationship progression, with Anastasia falling hard and getting way, way, too worked up about this jerk of a man… Love? I mean, she barely knows the guy. Yet she agrees to sleep with him on their second date? And don’t get me started about how a young woman with no sexual experience whatsoever is able to feel mind-numbing pleasure within 5 minutes of her first encounter… Guys in their 20s just don’t deliver like that…
This novel is really just a vessel to deliver a story of kink and BDSM, wrapped up in a mainstream package with a red bow… If that interests you, you will like it. Otherwise, you will probably agree with me, that it’s one to skip…
2 stars.
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