Review: Still full on porn
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2012
But a reasonable romance interwoven. One of the reasons I never watch porn is that the story line is a thinly disguised and badly acted means of getting to the sex. This book at least is fairly well written and does provide a continuity between sex scenes that is bearable. I cannot comment on the quality of the sex as I skipped a lot of it. Some of the more explicit wanderings are not my scene and I prefer to leave them to my imagination. I read all three Fifty Shades over a day having finally caved in to popular pressure. I think you have to read all three as the story is left hanging in the first two installments. If you take out the sex, this is a piece of fairly standard romance. Girl meets rich, damaged and incredibly handsome and who falls for her on sight. They then dance around each other, their tale peppered with misunderstandings designed to tug the heartstrings. All good really if you like romance. What moves this book out of the mainstream is the erotica. My three stars mean that I found it reasonably well done, it is not to my taste being about 200 years too modern but I finished the lot. I won't read more of these but that's not because it was awful - simply a personal choice. If you enjoy a romance very heavily laden with lots of different and often kinky sex then buy. If you prefer the romance to be more imaginary and less graphic then you either do what  did and skip or leave this out. Finally, do not expect realism. Christian is only 27 when they meet and yet he earns 100k per hour - all self made. He plays piano well, is well read, can fly a helicopter and glider, sail a boat, ski well and who knows what else. It's fantasy so stop complaining if it steps out of believable readers! I doubt anyone reading these books really thinks Ana's meeting Christien and their romance is real life- so why are people panning these on realism. I can understand people's puzzlement at why these are so successful-all I can think is that they managed to find a hidden button. He or she is definitely doing well out of pandering to our imaginations and good luck to her or him!