Fifty Shades Of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey Series, 1)

Yup, this is on my DNF (did not finish) shelf. I couldn't put myself through the torture. I gave it a chance -- nine whole chapters! Enough to be introduced to the main players, see the playroom, and survive the first sex scene.

I read enough.

There isn't much I can add onto what's already been said so eloquently by others (here & here). I didn't find this book sexy at all, and the Twilight parallels were annoying. I felt as if I was getting beat over the head with the grey references: Christian GREY who works in a grey building as the owner of Grey Enterprises, has grey eyes and who almost always wears clothes that are grey in color. YEAH, I GET IT ALREADY, THANKS. I found the characters unappealing and the sex un-sexy... if I could un-read the few portions of this book that I managed to get through, I would.

For those of you who liked it, more power to you. I simply couldn't justify putting myself through the rest of it. I say this not because I had an issue with the subject matter, but because I couldn't endure the poor writing.

I fully acknowledge that my lack of tolerance is due to (a) limited time to enjoy "fun leisure books" (therefore I should go read something I will actually enjoy, and not be rolling my eyes through) and (b) tons and tons of academic reading by classic authors who knew how to put sentences together well.

There was some good and some bad with this book if I am to be honest, to start with, how many times can a person say crap, double crap and basically any other thing with crap at the end way too much in my personal opinion, do people actually say this to themselves? I never have, well not in the context that Ana does.
She is 21 years old and she seems way too naive for that age, I know she is a virgin but that does not make you naive and being told what Christian Grey wants from her she doesn't really batter an eyelid. Now if it were me, and I were a virgin I would be running for the hills, no matter what he looked like and however much he intrigued me.
It was quite scary that Christian stalked Ana after their first meeting, this is not normal and would be a felony, I think I would have backed off the at the first or second instance of this.

I loved the storyline though, the way I read it, it was the beginning of a love story and although Christian is fifty shades of f***** up by his own admittance it seems that Ana is doing him some good. She is changing him without trying too, and that may be why her naivety is a good thing. She wants hearts and flowers, the real deal he doesn't but he is willing to try for her.
There was a lot sex scenes but this is to be expected as it is an 'erotic' book but nothing that shocked me. Although I am not sure that the amount of sex they had on the first night of becoming a non virgin would just make her sore. I think she would be walking a little oddly too haha.
As I said I loved the storyline, the characters and the detail involved into making those characters come alive in my imagination and their surroundings too. It was a great read.
I can understand why so many copies of this book have been sold worldwide.

It was pretty shady (laugh, I'm funny)

Highly recommend favorites series 🤗

This book is both overrated and a good read. I'm a big urban literature fan and I've read books by Zane that were more erotic and vulgar than this could ever be but I guess for this "audience" it's revolutionary.