So I have taken more cold showers this week than I ever have in my life. If you are not aware of these books you will. They are Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In a nut shell it is the love story between an innocent college graduate and a sadistic billionaire.
The story itself is compelling. The usual romance book fodder you find on the shelves that has some hunky half dressed guy on the front. The story is usually the same he has money, sweeps her off her feet, they get married, someone gets kidnapped,killed or blackmailed, someone saves the day, and they all live happy ever after.
Our hero has personal baggage that gets in the way of him having a normal life and the heroine Ana spends most of her time trying to get to the bottom of it all. Ana is also an airhead of the first degree she doesn't realize that Mr Grey actually stalked her wanting to make her his next submissive playmate. She also repeatedly does things to piss him off.
While the story is nice very endearing at times it also one of the most poorly written books. The same phrases are used over and over making the characters flat and boring.
The continual name dropping of brand names makes one believe that Apple and Audi paid them include their products.
Of course the one thing that ensures the book will sell and be controversial is all the sex. Straight sex, kinky sex with whips and chains, public sex, and any where you could imagine. These 2 have more sex in a 3 month period than I have in the last 20 years. They should be dehydrated and emaciated as they have no time for other things like eating and going to work. The sex scenes will send you running to the shower.
The books were an okay read, will never get a pulitzer, but they have made E.L James a rich woman.
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