Fifty Shades of Grey (50 Shades Trilogy, #1)

by E L James

[Katie King]

**2 Stars**

I'm not quite sure how stuff like this gets published.

The pacing was extremely slow. The novel seems like it takes place over something like 4 weeks yet it drags on ENDLESSLY. Apparently we need minute-by-minute transcription of Ana's days.

The dialogue was forced and choppy. If I read the words "jeez" or "inner goddess" or gasping ever again, it'll be WAY too soon. Kate's relationship with Ana was so ridiculously forced. Why exactly are they friends? Why is Ana friends with anyone? It seems like

The scene transitions were vague. One line they're in bed, the next line it's the next day and she's at work. What??

The plot was pretty random and poorly developed. I enjoyed the non-sex scenes a lot more. The sex was boring and very chaste for a BDSM book. I haven't read a lot of erotica but from what I understand it's supposed to be pretty vivid. This is the opposite of that (anti-vivid?). There's just touching "there" and gasping and Christian slamming into her. I don't know how it got classified as a BDSM book, honestly. The worst he does is spanking her (I think) and light bondage, which is something a lot of "vanilla" couples do.

I pretty much gave this 1 star because I had to, and 1 star because it sort-of let me live out my far-fetched dream of someone with a lot of money falling in love with me and buying me nice things and flying me in a helicopter to dinner. *hopes fervently*


Check out my opinion piece on Ana at my blog.