I gather that James' prose has been criticized, but I wonder what they are comparing it to. (And, yes, I do glare and youngsters and sporadically growl "Humbug!" during Xmas.) But it's a nice thought. Someone with issues on the scale of Christian Grey is not likely to transform themselves because of the power of love. In a sense, Fifty Shades is an urban fairy tale.īeing of a certain age I have come to the opinion that people do not change drastically.
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What attracted me wasn't salacious curiosity about the hinted at peek into the world of DBSM, it was good writing and the promise of a sweet love story.Īt the moment I'm a third of the way through James' last book, Fifty Shades Freed, and would describe the series as being more about the redemptive power of love than anything else. By the time my friend came back from his clothes shopping I was 20 pages in and thoroughly hooked. When I walked into Chapters the next day I had forgotten all about the book, but when I saw it perched at the top of the bestsellers bookshelf, I picked it up and began reading.Īnd I read, and read, and read. Since nothing else was said about Fifty Shades the description aroused my curiosity. I feel I must have been living under a rock for the past few months, but the first I heard of Fifty Shades was when I did by blog post for the indie bestseller Wool and that book was compared to Fifty Shades of Grey in its sudden and astonishing popularity. I found this paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for Fifty Shades of Grey:īy the release of the final volume in January 2012, news networks in the United States had begun to report on the Fifty Shades trilogy as an example of viral marketing and of the rise in popularity of female erotica, attributing its success to the discreet nature of e-reading devices.
Which isn't to say I don't think they're wonderful books.
James but I've read enough to be surprised by the fuss over the trilogy, especially the first book, Fifty Shades of Grey. I'm not quite finished the Fifty Shades series by author E.L.