A review by andintothetrees
Fifty Shades Trilogy by E.L. James

1.0

Yes, I read the whole lot. Why, you may ask, when I am about to dig into them and when it was surely obvious from the opening instalment that they were terrible books (it was, in fact I was initially surprised at just how bad they were)? Well, firstly because I like to be able to rant with knowledge of what I am verbally annihilating; secondly because I got some weird enjoyment from reading something so utterly rubbish and picking faults in it (this wore off by the third book though, by which point I was eager for it all to end, and took to skipping most of the sex scenes in order to speed up getting the book over and done with*). And thirdly, though it pains me to admit it, some pathetic part of me wanted to know how the story ended, and to come to that end “properly” rather than through reading a spoiler online (I didn’t bother reading the final final section though, which is some weird rehashing of events from Christian’s perspective. That would have been a step too far and crossed a “hard limit” for me).
* I truly struggled through that one. The chance to read would present itself to me and instead of reading the book I would find myself messing around online, reading random blogs and news articles for up to an hour on end in order to avoid picking up the dreaded tome.

... [Read the rest of my review here: https://whathannahread.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/the-fifty-shades-trilogy-by-el-james/]