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A review by cosymilko
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian by E.L. James
3.0
I read this because sometimes I get curious when a movie is coming out. Fifty Shades Darker is due out in February and I have already read that so I figured I'd read this.
It's the first book told from Christian Grey's POV. It's dated log style so you know pretty much each day and rough times for when everything is taking place.
Christian is fucked up. Christian is into BDSM. Christian is supposedly interested in BDSM because he is fucked up. Uh. No. Christian (as a child) has some weird fucked up relationship with an older woman (pedophile) who preyed on him when he was a young boy and gave him his fucked up view and added to his vulnerabilities.
This is less a hot-and-steamy read and more of a man clawing his way out of the fucked up cloud he's surrounded by.
Ana seems less... manipulative in this. With it being his point of view he often sees her little power plays coming. He doesn't want to allow them but he's completely ~bewitched~ by her. Hello, this is just realising that someone can actually love you as a person instead of a sex toy. If I'd never had ice cream and someone left me alone with the tub it would make sense that I would sit and eat the whole damn tub and not know why I must do that and what I will do to keep eating.
Bad analogy. Maybe. But it fits.
I rated it 3/5 cause as far as PTSD and fucked up childhoods go, it isn't awful. It makes leaps and bounds but for pop trash that will reach millions of people... well, I hope it gives them an eye-opening amongst their jollies.
And damn, I hope they're not idolising this like they did the others because shit is fucked up, yo!
It's the first book told from Christian Grey's POV. It's dated log style so you know pretty much each day and rough times for when everything is taking place.
Christian is fucked up. Christian is into BDSM. Christian is supposedly interested in BDSM because he is fucked up. Uh. No. Christian (as a child) has some weird fucked up relationship with an older woman (pedophile) who preyed on him when he was a young boy and gave him his fucked up view and added to his vulnerabilities.
This is less a hot-and-steamy read and more of a man clawing his way out of the fucked up cloud he's surrounded by.
Ana seems less... manipulative in this. With it being his point of view he often sees her little power plays coming. He doesn't want to allow them but he's completely ~bewitched~ by her. Hello, this is just realising that someone can actually love you as a person instead of a sex toy. If I'd never had ice cream and someone left me alone with the tub it would make sense that I would sit and eat the whole damn tub and not know why I must do that and what I will do to keep eating.
Bad analogy. Maybe. But it fits.
I rated it 3/5 cause as far as PTSD and fucked up childhoods go, it isn't awful. It makes leaps and bounds but for pop trash that will reach millions of people... well, I hope it gives them an eye-opening amongst their jollies.
And damn, I hope they're not idolising this like they did the others because shit is fucked up, yo!