Books: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed
Average Goodreads Ratings: 3.70, 3.92, 3.93
ISBN13: 9781612130293, 9781612130583, 9780345803504
My Rating (average): <---- 3 out of 5 unintentional sad face emojis
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> Hello All! I am in such a lovely mood! Since I am now 6 hours into my spring break and all i've done so far is read :) I know that posting (and even reading this series) is a little controversial. It's well known this book has some graphic sexual content, 50 shades has a 'mature audience' label on the back cover. My mother and her her friend even got into an argument over her choice to let me read this. I have seen deep discussion about this online and many people thing there should be an age limit on these kinds of books. I myself am a few months away of turning 15. Honestly; I think parents need to calm down on this subject -*immature teen voice* Duuude parents need to like totally chill man. Seriously bro*- Ha. There are far worse things for teenagers to get into than -gasp- books! Also, adults don't like to accept this. But teenagers have sex too. Not all of us. Calm down, I am pure. It's just a general statement, and statistically speaking more than half teenagers have engaged in sexual intercourse by the 12th grade. That's right, I Googled it. My point is, young people already have exposure to sex.
Anyway, my first impression of Fifty Shades of Grey was that the plot was weak and it had gained popularity predominantly on shock value. Every other scene in the first book was... you guessed it. Sex. Eventually it got to the point where I was just skimming over them because they were all more or less the same thing. I did notice that the very first 'scene' I read my reaction was much more surprised but by the end of the series I had been desensitized to them and didn't really react much at all. A lot of people say this book was really poorly written and the worst book ever, etc. I agree that this book wasn't amazing. However; I respect EL James who was just an average person who wanted to write something which is not easy! To those who are complaining as well, this book is popular because people buy it. Another thing I absolutley hate -actually hate isn't strong enough loathe is when people openly critique a book and say it's bad when haven't even read it. That happened a lot with people when I said I was going to read this. If you have read the whole book and whole series I will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of it and rationalize my views on it and not just simple say ''This sucks''
Another thing! If you don't want something to gain popularity than leave it alone. A lot of people hate on the book and say it's awful but then they buy it anyway. That's one the rules of consumerism people! If something is in demand there will be more production of it! If people buy ''crappy, awful writing that gives people the wrong idea about sex'' then there will be more production of said thing. I had the same view on another book series I'm about to mention. The good thing was, as the series progressed there was more of a plot. Christian's character becomes much deeper than 'hot, rich, bad boy'. Anastasia however... well. Lets just say she was better that *dramatic pause* ... Bella Swan!
Yes. I am aware of the fact that Fifty Shades began as a fanfiction of Twilight. In fact I remember my first thought when getting the books was ''Oh lord, if the book E.L James was basing this off of was bad, how atrocious is this going to be?'' Luckily, I think these books were better than Twilight. Main reason being, I loathe Bella Swan. She was just so dull, predictable, and ahem submissive. Bella could hardly manage to tie her shoes without the help of her Prince Charming, Edward Cullen. Every adjective used to describe her vampire boyfriend is a million different synonyms of hot. Anastasia Steele is an intelligent, brave-ish young woman who could definitely kick Bella's ass. Hey! EL James! How about writing a cross over so I could see that! I promise I would be quite entertained.
Thanks for Reading!
-R
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