The story begins with a chance meeting between Christian Grey and Ana Steele when she steps in for her friend at an interview. Every girl wants to believe that she could meet some dark, sexy stranger that takes her on a toe curling adventure, so the beginning of the story stands every woman's inner sex goddess to attention.
But let's not just think of this as a book just for us girls, for men it's practically a 'how to' guide to keep your partner satisfied or even spice up any sex life. Plus deep down, all men love a good romance. Personally I don't think I'll ever look at cable ties the same, there not just the things that stop all my leads getting all jumbled up... They can be so much more.
However this isn't just a normal chick-lit where the man pursues the woman, they go get together and go skipping of into the rose tinted future. Oh no, here we have violence (not just the kinky kind), murder suspects, threats of rape as well as the odd spanking threat... I think it is these plot strands that make this series unisex and altogether more sinister and sexy.
It's almost unbelievable that E L James got this idea from Twilight, although you can certainly see the similarities. Mysterious male hottie with no past love life falls for self-conscious brunette and the two embark on a twisted path of jealous ex lovers, deranged bosses and each has to face personal demons. In the Twilight saga, Bella has commitment issues and Edward believes himself to be monster just as Mr Grey does and they both don't understand what they want from their leading ladies in the beginning.
But a raunchy novel with such themes is bound to come under scrutiny from well, just about everyone!
So. Many. Conflicting. Reviews.
Samantha Brick, who famously wrote that she was practically today's equivalent of Marilyn Monroe stated on 'This Morning' that Fifty Shades of Grey was "degrading to women." Not that I entirely disagree with her, (all that apologising really irritated me) but coming from her, who is a degradation of women, the point is completely lost. The 'heroine' Ana Steele, says she's sorry approximately 12657453 times. Like come on, she wasn't even born when all his problems began. She just has to deal with the aftermath, grin and bear it states the great believer in 'Never Apologise to a Man'. Unless you stab him ofcoarse. Or ate the last bourbon cream.
Fifty Shades has been dubbed 'Mummy Porn', however the actual sex scenes in the book are well, a whole lot tamer than your lead to believe. Sure he uses ties in new and rather interesting ways and yes those silver metal balls do make most of our eyes close in wonder but for someone who claims to hate 'vanilla sex' does he not always end up in the same old 'love-making' position? In the first book these scenes blew my mind but by the third it became far to repetitive and the phrase "Oh my" made my brain sag internally from over-use. Even the oh my god/gosh/word would have went a long way.
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed these novels and I'm pretty sure I died a little inside when I had to wait four days for the second and third books to arrive. Some little things just annoyed me, like your freshly dunked biscuit falling into your tea. I think with a little variation the story could have been even better and probably opened peoples minds to take on the BDSM lifestyle.
But let's not just think of this as a book just for us girls, for men it's practically a 'how to' guide to keep your partner satisfied or even spice up any sex life. Plus deep down, all men love a good romance. Personally I don't think I'll ever look at cable ties the same, there not just the things that stop all my leads getting all jumbled up... They can be so much more.
However this isn't just a normal chick-lit where the man pursues the woman, they go get together and go skipping of into the rose tinted future. Oh no, here we have violence (not just the kinky kind), murder suspects, threats of rape as well as the odd spanking threat... I think it is these plot strands that make this series unisex and altogether more sinister and sexy.
It's almost unbelievable that E L James got this idea from Twilight, although you can certainly see the similarities. Mysterious male hottie with no past love life falls for self-conscious brunette and the two embark on a twisted path of jealous ex lovers, deranged bosses and each has to face personal demons. In the Twilight saga, Bella has commitment issues and Edward believes himself to be monster just as Mr Grey does and they both don't understand what they want from their leading ladies in the beginning.
But a raunchy novel with such themes is bound to come under scrutiny from well, just about everyone!
So. Many. Conflicting. Reviews.
Samantha Brick, who famously wrote that she was practically today's equivalent of Marilyn Monroe stated on 'This Morning' that Fifty Shades of Grey was "degrading to women." Not that I entirely disagree with her, (all that apologising really irritated me) but coming from her, who is a degradation of women, the point is completely lost. The 'heroine' Ana Steele, says she's sorry approximately 12657453 times. Like come on, she wasn't even born when all his problems began. She just has to deal with the aftermath, grin and bear it states the great believer in 'Never Apologise to a Man'. Unless you stab him ofcoarse. Or ate the last bourbon cream.
Fifty Shades has been dubbed 'Mummy Porn', however the actual sex scenes in the book are well, a whole lot tamer than your lead to believe. Sure he uses ties in new and rather interesting ways and yes those silver metal balls do make most of our eyes close in wonder but for someone who claims to hate 'vanilla sex' does he not always end up in the same old 'love-making' position? In the first book these scenes blew my mind but by the third it became far to repetitive and the phrase "Oh my" made my brain sag internally from over-use. Even the oh my god/gosh/word would have went a long way.
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed these novels and I'm pretty sure I died a little inside when I had to wait four days for the second and third books to arrive. Some little things just annoyed me, like your freshly dunked biscuit falling into your tea. I think with a little variation the story could have been even better and probably opened peoples minds to take on the BDSM lifestyle.
Fifty Shades lets people know that desires are nothing to be ashamed of and that it's OK to indulge them! The next thing we'll know the Government will be issuing us with a minium price on riding crops to discourage people from using them due to rising figures in sore bottoms and bitten lips.
Annie x
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