I admit I have read all three books, and by the third book was skim reading, if not actually skipping, the steamy scenes as they were all the same by the end.
Really enjoying the hunger games ... very similar narrative voice to the "Tomorrow When The War Began" series, but obviously very different content! But they're really very good.
I don't have high expectations of the Fifty series - it is what it is, and I'm not going to expect any more.
I started the Fifty Shades last night. Only on chapter 4 so still a long way to go. I bought all 3 for my tablet. Like others I only got them to see what all the hype was about lol.
i just read the first one. i am not going to rush out and get the others. i will read them one day though. it wasnt as good as everyone said it was. i found the sex parts quite repetitive and even boring towards the end, i was more interested in finding out about the characters and whats with Mr Greys past etc.
Ok. I gotta say it. It's not doing it for me. I'm about half way through.
I have been known to read a romantic novel or two And I don't mind a bit of a sex scene every now and then. But these just aren't working out for me. Maybe because I am a bit of a prude - but it is leaving a sour taste in my mouth.
Actually the sour taste was actually there before they even entered the "red room".
I think it is a combination of things. I keep getting distracted by my internal count of every time Ana blushes/flushes/turns red, looks down or bites her lip. And the count of every time she uses an expletive starting with "Holy" something. Seriously, it is on every page. At least once. "Holy c". "Holy s". "Holy f."
Likewise turning "x shades of something". 50 shades of messed up. 7 shades of blue. Ok - we get that you are tying it into the book title... but really, it's doing my head in.
And much like 2cheekymonkeys says, every time they veer somewhere vaguely interesting, like his food thing or the scars on his chest, he looks at her and she climaxes and dissolves into a million pieces. Every time she climaxes it's into a million pieces.
C'mon writer. Couldn't you do better than that?
And I can't see the tie-in with Twilight. It was started as a Twilight fanfic - what does that mean exactly? That someone who loved Twilight wrote it? Is that all? No actual link with Twilight?
Twilight wasn't the best writing... but I could at least get a bit involved with the characters. I'm struggling to do that with this one.
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And I don't mind a bit of a sex scene every now and then. But these just aren't working out for me. Maybe because I am a bit of a prude - but it is leaving a sour taste in my mouth.
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