Review: 50 Shades of Winged Grey
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2013
As another reviewer noted, if you haven't recently read "Uprising," you may have a hard time remembering what is going on and who is who. The author does not spend time refreshing readers about specifics from previous books.That said, I did not love this book as much as the other reviewers. I found the story extremely uneven. The first 2/3 or so are excessively devoted to one character's...let's call them emotional problems. Then comes an embarrassingly long stretch of time earnestly trying to convince the reader how much women really love it when you do very painful things to them (biting, pinching, twisting, hair yanking, etc.) The story and action briefly gets going again, then grinds to a painful halt, pun intended, while the heroine indulges in some 50 Shades of Grey action with her new lover, who is much crueler, and therefore preferable, to her previous gentle and caring love.If that extraneous material was cut out, this book would have been maybe 150 pages instead of the 252 it actually is. What happens is that the really interesting story that I liked enough to read more about gets shoved to the side until near the end, when, just as significant, epic things begin to take place, it abruptly ends.I particularly dislike this new trend of ending books on cliff-hangers. I think it's a cheap trick, especially when I spent so much time meandering around the heroine's psyche and sexual preferences and very little time on moving the much more important storyline forward. I feel cheated and strong-armed into buying the next of the series to find out what (if anything) happens next.Add in some typos (such as "weeks" for "wings," "meringue" for "merengue"), some bad grammar (as in, "that showed how well it had went") and some jarring transitions (one moment a character is standing, asking a question, and the very next cutting into a pork chop -- with no mention of him sitting down or having a plate of food), and this book ended up in the "can not recommend" pile for me.NOTE: Some readers may be offended at the graphic language, descriptions of rough, sado-masochistic sex and gory violence.