I understand that I made this blog for strictly food, but I have to switch it up for one post, because if I do not write about "50 Shades of Grey", I am going to burst.
Now, when I first heard about this book, I decided to go look at the reviews on Amazon. I am NOT one to jump on the book bandwagons. I can't stand "Twilight", and didn't even attempt to read the other one everyone is so giddy about....what's it called again? Something about zombies I think? I forget at the moment. But they are not my type. I stick to my virgin novels :-) I was in shock when I saw all of the bad reviews for 50 Shades. I thought, "This has got to be the worst book on the planet given these reviews, holy crap!". I decided no way was I spending money on it. They say the writing was the worst they had ever seen, which is a HUGE turn off.
A few weeks pass. I hear more and more about it, quite a few of my friends have read it. I finally decided I would get the book. 50 Shades of Grey is an "erotic romance", not at all my thing. I decided to give it a go anyways. I am a few chapters in the the book when I am shocked at what all of the bad reviews were about, thus far, I was loving it. I am telling you folks, I was so captivated by this book, I couldn't put the darn thing down for 5 minutes. I read it in between everything I had to do! I was in total shock, again, given the TERRIBLE reviews. I finished the book today, and couldn't leave the house fast enough to get the second book in the series, "50 Shades Darker". Here is what I have come up with:
As everyone knows (and I am going to be quite frank, so don't be shy here), this is an EROTIC novel. I am sure everyone who knows about it, it has been referred to as "mom porn" ha. As much as I am loving this series, I will tell you that I understand the negative reviews. The writing is not the best. They repeat the same things constantly in the story, it gets very old. Everyone knows that a sex scene in a book is going to make it "interesting"....not when it is on almost every other page. I agree with the reviews when they say it is "not erotic" at all. The author uses the same phrases on almost every page. She also uses the "erotic" fiction WAY too much. Anyone who plans to buy this book for that, don't, because it may disappoint. I would prefer a lot less of it, and quite frankly, I would have to wonder about you if you said you don't think "that" part of this book is any big deal at all (maybe better not to tell us....). It is very intense, basically based off BDSM, not something I find appealing at ALL, so naturally it is not something I would want to read about. Somehow though it goes perfectly with the story, just way, WAY too much repeating of it. Also, I am not fond of the constant foul language. This book would have been much more appealing without it all.
What makes me love this book. Nobody said there was a "love" story to this...there IS! This book, minus the annoying repetitive sex scenes, has a full blown love story to it. It is one of those books where you can't get to the next page fast enough. It will captivate you, make you feel like the characters are real, and make you long to have it go a certain way. As I sit and type this, I am still so confused on the 1 star reviews this book got (and hundreds of them!). I am not one for bad books and movies. If it is bad writing, I can tell. Yes, this has bad writing, but not NEARLY as bad as everyone makes it out to be. In fact, I would not even bother writing this if I didn't love the book so much. Despite all of those cons, the story that this series carries is definitely worth the read. I would give this book a 4 star. This is not based on how good or bad the writing is, but based on a captivating story. Basically, I wanted to write this because I am sure there are so many out there just like me who read reviews and said there is no way they'd want to read this. Maybe give it a try. You might be as surprised as I was. I hope so.
Here is an excerpt since I did not go in to details about what the book is about, characters, etc.
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