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florchusb's review
3.0
When the original trilogy came out I was in love with it. Granted, I was a big Twilight fan and the inspirations from it being originally a fanfic were truly appreciated in my case, even more because I could imagine the "new characters" in the role as much as Meyer counterparts.
I was also a teenager with raging hormones, I think I was 16 or 17 when I read it, I don't even know how I got my parents to allow me to read it honestly. Anyways, I liked the premise of it, the door to BDSM and sex discovery in general and I shamefully admit that a controlling/posessive MMC was really intriguing to my teen self, but THEN years later this book was published and I figured, why not try it out and complete the series with Christian's POV?
Boy was I wrong, I genuinely DESPISED the dynamic between them, found him unappealing and her so submissive it was infuriating. Besides, the writing style felt so boring and anticlimactic, I remember rolling my eyes every 2 pages and finding it so hard to finish it. Rest assured, I won't be picking up the next two books.
Moral of the story, if you read the first books when they were trending and liked them, but in recent years found yourself reading another kind of books, MAYBE don't ruin that experience revisiting the story. But if you read them recently and found it riveting, you could enjoy Grey's POV, I personally love multiple-pov books and nowadays grow more towards those as I feel more involved on the world built in the pages that way.
I was also a teenager with raging hormones, I think I was 16 or 17 when I read it, I don't even know how I got my parents to allow me to read it honestly. Anyways, I liked the premise of it, the door to BDSM and sex discovery in general and I shamefully admit that a controlling/posessive MMC was really intriguing to my teen self, but THEN years later this book was published and I figured, why not try it out and complete the series with Christian's POV?
Boy was I wrong, I genuinely DESPISED the dynamic between them, found him unappealing and her so submissive it was infuriating. Besides, the writing style felt so boring and anticlimactic, I remember rolling my eyes every 2 pages and finding it so hard to finish it. Rest assured, I won't be picking up the next two books.
Moral of the story, if you read the first books when they were trending and liked them, but in recent years found yourself reading another kind of books, MAYBE don't ruin that experience revisiting the story. But if you read them recently and found it riveting, you could enjoy Grey's POV, I personally love multiple-pov books and nowadays grow more towards those as I feel more involved on the world built in the pages that way.
emmad24's review
1.0
This was awful I got to like page 170 and it was so bad so I just skipped to the last page. Fuck this book. It's boring af and creepy
joanna1905's review
4.0
Honestly, I don't even care that E.L. James is coming for our cash by publishing the same trilogy twice just from a different pov. I love the insight into Christian's head and I think she did a truly fantastic job of making sure these books aren't just a complete reprint of the original books. Of course, the central plot and key scenes are all the same (but from a different pov) but there is a lot of free time filled in where we don't know what Christian's doing.
These books give a cool insight into Christian's relationship with his family and Elena and how his fillings for Ana progression. Of course, it's slightly cliche and cringe, often there are times that Christian thinks about himself in a way an angsty teenager would. However, while it seems a bit out of place considering he's this intimidating powerful businessman it's actually quite fitting with his character arc.
Being abused as a child only to find a loving family and a soft place to fall and then being emotionally, physically and sexually abused by a family friend during his teenage years and early twenties would very obviously stunt his emotional growth. I like this insight into his character and think it was a really fitting way to depict a very emotionally stunted young man.
All in all, these are a good read for any fans of the original books. They aren't revolutionary but they're a fun quick read.
These books give a cool insight into Christian's relationship with his family and Elena and how his fillings for Ana progression. Of course, it's slightly cliche and cringe, often there are times that Christian thinks about himself in a way an angsty teenager would. However, while it seems a bit out of place considering he's this intimidating powerful businessman it's actually quite fitting with his character arc.
Being abused as a child only to find a loving family and a soft place to fall and then being emotionally, physically and sexually abused by a family friend during his teenage years and early twenties would very obviously stunt his emotional growth. I like this insight into his character and think it was a really fitting way to depict a very emotionally stunted young man.
All in all, these are a good read for any fans of the original books. They aren't revolutionary but they're a fun quick read.
0lyssaa's review
4.0
Anastasia Steele, a shy, inexperienced college senior meets the young bagillionaire, Christian Grey. Ana and Christian first met when she face planted into his office, Ana was utterly attracted to Mr. Grey and he was interested in her. As she gets to know this seemingly perfect man she uncovers his desire for sadistic acts. throughout the novel Ana is at war with her inner goddess and subconscious, trying to comply with all of Christians requests. she doesn't like the whole idea of the dominant submissive thing but still looks over the contract Christian proposes to see if she would be up for the challenge. while the contract situation is under discussion Ana reveals to Christian that she is a virgin and they make love to give her a taste of what the future would hold. after many sexcapades, gifts, insights into each others lives Ana decides to give the whole dominant submissive thing a try letting Christian go full on in the red room of pain. Ana finds herself intensely overwhelmed, and ends the relationship.
Fifty Shades of Grey has a lot of debate. some loved it, some hated it, personally i loved it. when i first picked up this book i knew it was gonna be erotica but i didn't expect anything of what happened. i like the whole story of the sex addicted man only wanting a dominant submissive relationship and the girl that wants a real relationship, continuously pushing for one. although reading through this novel was sort of repetitive with Anastasia's inner goddess and subconscious arguing all the time it was amazing, any spare time was devoted to reading this book. aside from the erotica, it was a roller-coaster ride of emotions. going back and forth between loving the confusing relationship of Ana and Christian to hating it. i really liked the connection Ana and Christian had. the ending definitely has me asking for more so i'll be reading the next book as soon as possible.
Fifty Shades of Grey has a lot of debate. some loved it, some hated it, personally i loved it. when i first picked up this book i knew it was gonna be erotica but i didn't expect anything of what happened. i like the whole story of the sex addicted man only wanting a dominant submissive relationship and the girl that wants a real relationship, continuously pushing for one. although reading through this novel was sort of repetitive with Anastasia's inner goddess and subconscious arguing all the time it was amazing, any spare time was devoted to reading this book. aside from the erotica, it was a roller-coaster ride of emotions. going back and forth between loving the confusing relationship of Ana and Christian to hating it. i really liked the connection Ana and Christian had. the ending definitely has me asking for more so i'll be reading the next book as soon as possible.
chocolatewestie16's review
4.0
I did enjoy this book. I was unsure at 1st as it felt like it was just a copy & paste but the further into the book you got the better & the sex scenes where described in GREAT detail. The ending was very well written too.
Well done EL James
Well done EL James
rainbow_goblin's review
2.0
I apparently hate myself. I have no other convincing reason for having read this book.