Thread: A Fifty Shades Review - Just in time for the BS movie

RE A Fifty Shades Review I've read those reviews before, and I really enjoy them! They're honest, and while they may be a bit exaggerated, they hold quite a bit of truth to them. I was laughing along, even the second time reading it now. The gifs are probably the best part... They complete her reviews, and they're the absolute perfect pictures to match what she's saying xD. I've read the Fifty Shades trilogy, and while I wasn't impressed with the writing or the sex scenes or the predictability of the book, I thought it had its 'okay' moments. What I agreed with was that these books do make young women adolescents mostly think that this kind of relationship is perfectly normal. It's a very unrealistic view of love, one that definitely doesn't happen anywhere in real life. That being said, I did like how both characters found love through their faults and overcame their inner demons. It's nice to think that even if you think so much is wrong with you, you can still find someone who will genuinely love you for simply being you . Is that an optimistic outlook of the book and its characters? Probably, but I'm also just an optimistic person. All the Twilight references are made because E.L James started it as Twilight fanfic, and when it garnered lots of online attention, her fans convinced her to write it as a novel with completely new characters... Although new isn't really the right word to use. Christian Grey looks exactly like Edward Cullen except for the eyes, and Ana Steele looks exactly like Bella. There are way too many similarities. That being said, if it started out as a Twilight fanfic, then of course Ana was going to end up bland-as-fuck and pretty much a cookie-cutter 'innocenttimid' type woman. And then, Christian was going to end up as the dangerous bad boy who the woman really shouldn't fall in love with, but she does anyway because he makes her feel some type of way. Honestly, I thought Grey had a more appealing and deeper personality than Steele because we rarely see strong men being portrayed as actually very insecure and unsure about himself. As for the writing... First-person perspective allowed the writer to repeat such things as oh my and shit like that. They're italicized text that one can tell are Ana's thoughts coming through her actual narrative of what's happening, but it was almost cringe-worthy how repetitive it was. The writing was just... juvenile. It sounded like a 18 year-old's life story about her first whirlwind romance rather than a 22 year-old woman's story of how she found herself through love. But for how innocent Ana was... she may as well have been a teenager in the books. All in all, it's not an award-winning series or anything. Just a fun little something to read if you like books that have a lot of description of a character's emotions and inner monologues. If you're into romance novels for the sex, don't even bother. It's just a lot of unf Christian, pound the shit out of me, and I climaxed, shattering into a million pieces as I felt him still beneath me. I mean, you can tell it was this author's fantasy sex scenes translating onto the page. And, if you like just excellent writing... don't bother, haha. You'll be sorely disappointed. To me, it sounded like this author was writing a young-adult fiction novel. Which it might have been, if you omitted all the sex stuff. But that's just my 0.02! Those reviews really are wonderful though. Thanks for sharing, Hahvoc!