I belong to book club called Women Words & Wine. Each month we discuss a book and for the month of July we decided to swap out The Pilmgrammage by Paul Cohelro for the reasons of, .it's summer why not read something hot, steamy and downright seductive during this heat wave...and downright seductive it is! So, The Pilmgrammage got placed back on the book shelf for Fifty Shades of Grey.
Dear Readers: *SPOILER ALERT*
Now, this trilogy begins when Anatasia Steele becomes the substitute interviewer for her roommate/bff Kate who falls ill. Anatasia who likes to be called Ana stumbles (awe struck and clumsy) into the interviewee office of Christian Grey to carry out this interview for the university paper. Unknowingly, Ana has captured the attention this very young entrepreneur (he'd definitely be Forbes list quality....$100,000.00 an hour).
Christian not one to let things, people or places he sees fit to pass him by, he embarks on the challenge of contracting Ana. Contracting Ana? Yep, you read right! Christian mesmerizing to all the senses; sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch requires you to enter into a contract and one that at first needs you to sign a NDA. Again, NDA what's that you ask? Non-disclosure Agreement, what could be required of you that you need to first sign this paper before you can review this contract....well, a man of his nature...oops! I mean, a man of his stature definitely wouldn't want to be all over the tabloids. He does have a business to run and I see no fault wanting to separate his business life from his personal life. But when the personal life has hard limits and soft limits, requires you to eat from a listing of foods, accept being lavished with gifts, to sleep in your bed in your own room at his place every weekend (no week days), have a personal trainer with a set amount of training appts....the list goes on. Then you really begin to question???...Caning, flogging, whippings, spanking, plugs, ties and more. Really there's more? Yes, there is! Frequencies, thresholds, locations and the details are not left out. I would love to be the fly in the room when the lawyer has to prepare this document for his client and the fly on the wall for the psychologist sessions too!
That there is the ENTIRE hype of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy because after that it's just a love story of a naive girl Ana who happens to catch the eye of a filthy rich young man, Christian Grey. He does his best at courting her although, he's very much of a control freak and very honest about it. However, his childhood past, adolescent relationship interferes with his ability to love, understanding that love is a give and take reciprocation. If you're going to be honest you have to be honest about everything! Ana, on the other hand needs to understand that you can't keep pushing people...sometimes, they just need a little bit of time especially, if you can recognize it. Eventually, she leaves him his requirements are just too much for her. But then she realizes, she too, can try new things, if it keeps her with him but with a few adjustments. Flaws and All!
All in all, he has unfortunate dark secrets that come one after the other and she likes to be controlled under her own parameters. Am I beating a dead horse...yep, because that's what it's like reading this book. E.L. James is an amateur writer at best who shockingly became a success with Fifty Shades of Grey. I've read novels by many other authors whose "vanilla" sex scenes could actually leave you breathless, throbbing and shocked that you've read about 10+ pages of pure, jaw dropping sex. And the S&M....what S&M??!!! I believe mainly by re-introducing people to master and submissive, which is tame at most. She's single handedly captured audiences. Yes, there are many sex scenes but when description is so few, you have to put in more. Besides, the writing is pretty bad at best.
Let's just say if I ever got to meet E.L. James I need to ask her "What's hooded eyes?".
Just for fun! Who would you like to see casted as Christian Grey:
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| Matthew Bromer |
Alex Pettyfer
Let me know what your thoughts of the book? Did you just read Fifty Shades of Grey or did you do the trilogy as myself. I covet your comments!
P.s. I only continued to read the trilogy because I'm a hopeless romantic....it was a predictable love story *embarrassedface*
Sincerely,
The Covet LifeStyle
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