Romance

Ok not high fiction, but very addictive. Romance with a LOT of sex. Total fantasy time - escapism at it's very tailored best. ( )

Story: 3 / 10
Characters: 8
Setting: 7
Prose: 4

Still loving this vampiric, romance trilogy. Certainly not as good as the original, but still has some semblance of a story. Hopefully the final book is better than the second. ( )

I bok to, Bundet, har Anastasia Steele blitt skremt av Christian Greys hemmeligheter, og hun har brutt forholdet. Hun har startet i en ny jobb, men ....

I have enjoyed these books so much more the second time around its a little surprising even to me. granted the writing is simple. the story line after seeing the movie with a girlfriend is very much so more enjoyable. ( )

The soap opera train wreck continues in a predictable way...

Well, my feelings about book nr. 1 are not completely unequivocal. I thought the first half was somewhat cheap, filled with platitudes. The second half I liked a lot better, with Ana developing a backbone. That's also the reason I liked book nr. 2 better than nr. 1: Ana still has her backbone. Alright, it's not the most amazing backbone in the world, but still, it's there. Because of it, the relationship becomes a lot more healthy. Overall, I'd say this book is an easy-to-read romance novel. Kinky romance, but still romance. ( )

Just as I expected. A pure fantasy. An unconditional love.

This book left me without words. While reading I actually wanted to say a lot but after finishing I just lost any aspiration to do it. There is no point. Really. This is the most explicit book about unconditional love. There is nothing else to it.

Como me paso con 50 sombras, lo leí si, ¿Lo elegiría de nuevo hoy en día? la verdad que no ( )

Read this in December then again this weekend. FANTASTIC!! Everybody I have recommended these to has loved all three. ( )

Not as hot as the first one, but plenty of intrigue. I'm quite worried that Christian will die in the last book...so of course I downloaded it just now and will start reading it. I'm not happy with the idea that he practices BDSM because his childhood screwed him up; that is just what all the vanilla people like to think. *sigh* ( )

This book made me want to change the first book to 3 stars..,that's right, it was better!!! More if what I like in a book and less, I think, of you know what! At the end of the book, Grace was my hero! ( )

Loved this author stories. She didn't fail to captivate and to keep her readers. Book one was mouth watering and filled with passion, and book two kept the pace, adding a bit of flavor to what was already good. Definitely recommend reading this book.

Reading this book also gave me the confidence needed to write my steamy pieces into my own story. ( )

Una storia alquanto improbabile, assurda e del tutto inattendibile, per di più dilatata all’inverosimile in tre volumi con l’unico scopo, per me, di moltiplicare i guadagni.
Personaggi inverosimili, del tutto illogici e irrazionali che risultano, alla fine, irritanti e paradossali. Una lettura talmente ridicola da sfociare nel comico e strampalato tanto da farmi continuare nella lettura solo per capire a quali vette di assurdità si possa arrivare.
Nel complesso meriterebbe un n.c. (non classificabile), darò invece due stelle per le risate che mi ha strappato. ( )

I'm glad we got to see more into the characters and reasoning behind certain acts. I liked how their relationship progressed. Not fabulous writing, but entertaining and a good sequel. Left me hanging at the end. ( )

Skip it! ( )

Much better than book 1. Still not great but not totally terrible. There were a lot of good moments in this one. Solid three stars. ( )

Ook al loste het eerste deel lang niet al zijn beloftes in, het tweede deel kon ik toch niet laten liggen. Er gebeurde wel meer dan in deel een, en ook dit deel leest vlot weg, maar qua spanning en controverse zijn we in Nederland misschien wel teveel gewend om hier nog rode oortjes van te krijgen. ( )

Best book of the series. ( )

Very erotic and it was sort of predictable ( )

Nothing really to say, the book's a mess of bad BDSM representation, abuse, coercion, control, and just gross over all. ( )

This is much better than the first book.. :D ( )

I enjoyed this second book. I think it was my favorite of the three. There wasn't so much angst about whether she could be a sub for him since basically they both decided the answer was no. I liked how the therapist conveyed why it was okay for Christian to give up on that aspect with Anna. The story moved on well and lots of issues were addressed about how their relationship was going to function going forward. Still plenty of OTT romantic gestures from Christian and I felt like Anna was growing up a bit. Nice to see more of all the other characters. Although really? Everyone just loves Anna? I did see a bit of the homage to Twilight there. On the whole though I really don't see a lot of overt similarities that could not in fact be similarities to many romances on the shelves throughout the last 200 years. There are only so many types of heroes and heroines and combinations there of even with differing outside characteristics like the BDSM. I liked to see that Anna wasn't giving in on the disliking Mrs. Robinson thing. I was afraid they would all end up lovey dovey. ( )

I was only going to read the 1st one but cliffhanger -moved to book 2 . ( )

I went into this thinking it had to be better than the first book, but boy was I wrong. It's almost as if E.L. James decided to take everything I hated about Grey and mention it five times on every page during Darker. The lip biting, the peeking up through eyelashes, the extremely unprofessional emails during work, Christian Grey's ever-changing eye color... I could list a million things. One positive thing that I can say about Darker is that James has decided to include some dramatic tension and actual events happening within the book. This time around, Ana Steele's grating narration is backed by a plot involving a crazy ex-sub of Christian Grey's who is running wild around Seattle and who may or may not be trying to harm Ana and Christian. While I appreciate James' attempts to make Darker about more than two dull people having awkward, creepy sex... It was still terrible. ( )