*SPOILERS*
I know the books have been out for ages. I know everyone has probably already read them or created their own view on the trilogy. BUT i am going to write a review anyway and it may help towards those debating to read the new GREY book.
So for anyone who has been in my company the last two weeks will know i have been surging through the 50 shades trilogy and am currently half way through the great new book GREY.
Despite the reputation it upholds as a saucy, seedy and basically a porn book, i loved it. It is the opposite of what everyone says. Yes, the book has sex scenes with well adventurous toys and role-play but it is woven within a beautiful relationship between a young girl who has fallen in love for the first time and a deeply damaged man who has had a horrible start in life. Christian Grey is the way he is because at the age of 15 he was taught how to deal with his brutal start in life using his relationships with women. Ana brings out the real Christian and he brings out the real Anastasia.
I was so obsessed with the books and the sex scenes just made the relationship seem more real because it is a part of relationships and allowed me as a reader feel a part of their relationship. We get to read about two people falling in love and despite all obsticles they come together and fall in love. They both change themselves to come together as a couple and it is beautiful to read. I am not ashamed to say i cried and gained goosebumps from this book.
After the first book we really get to know Christian unravel as a character and we get to see the two of them go through what a 'normal' couple go through such as marriage, honeymooning and children. I really loved reading about the two of them as a couple and seeing their lives progress together even though they had some strange encounters with old ex's, families and Christians protective nature.
But when i finished the final book i felt at a loss, even though all the blanks were filled in and it was a happy ending, i felt like they were carrying on their lives and i had been left behind (don't laugh i know its weird). I just wanted to keep reading about their lives forever until their deaths and even then i'd feel lost.
The GREY book, 50 Shades of Grey as told by Christian is well the first book but told from the POV of Christian himself. Although i know what is going to happen and what is said between the two i am still hooked. The book allows me as a reader to read conversations he had with people when he was pursuing Anastasia and his thoughts and feelings towards this relationship which was completely different to what he had ever had before. We find out what he really felt about Ana because in the original book we only know if he said something but Christian is extremely closed off. I am finally getting to fill in those planks and finding out how and when he realised Ana wasn't going to be just a submissive but the love of his life. I am really enjoying this book and recommend to anyone.
Even if you don't like to read about sex it is an amazing book for all you romantics out there! I have really enjoyed reading this book and was reading it at any moment i got the chance. My mum at one point was getting worried because i would wake up early, read, go to work, then as soon as i returned from work i would curl back up with my book. Even during a weekend in Essex i was reading the book before bed because i didn't want to go two days without reading more.
plus for everyone who has watched the film and enjoyed it, the books are...as always...better. WAY BETTER. They delve so much more into the intensity of the relationship, both of their pasts and focus on the little things like how Christian remembers exactly how Ana likes her tea and sleeping in the same bed as her and his past with Mrs. Robinson. If you need a new book to read or have a spare moment...read these books. You will not regret it.
I know the books have been out for ages. I know everyone has probably already read them or created their own view on the trilogy. BUT i am going to write a review anyway and it may help towards those debating to read the new GREY book.
So for anyone who has been in my company the last two weeks will know i have been surging through the 50 shades trilogy and am currently half way through the great new book GREY.
Despite the reputation it upholds as a saucy, seedy and basically a porn book, i loved it. It is the opposite of what everyone says. Yes, the book has sex scenes with well adventurous toys and role-play but it is woven within a beautiful relationship between a young girl who has fallen in love for the first time and a deeply damaged man who has had a horrible start in life. Christian Grey is the way he is because at the age of 15 he was taught how to deal with his brutal start in life using his relationships with women. Ana brings out the real Christian and he brings out the real Anastasia.
I was so obsessed with the books and the sex scenes just made the relationship seem more real because it is a part of relationships and allowed me as a reader feel a part of their relationship. We get to read about two people falling in love and despite all obsticles they come together and fall in love. They both change themselves to come together as a couple and it is beautiful to read. I am not ashamed to say i cried and gained goosebumps from this book.
After the first book we really get to know Christian unravel as a character and we get to see the two of them go through what a 'normal' couple go through such as marriage, honeymooning and children. I really loved reading about the two of them as a couple and seeing their lives progress together even though they had some strange encounters with old ex's, families and Christians protective nature.
But when i finished the final book i felt at a loss, even though all the blanks were filled in and it was a happy ending, i felt like they were carrying on their lives and i had been left behind (don't laugh i know its weird). I just wanted to keep reading about their lives forever until their deaths and even then i'd feel lost.
The GREY book, 50 Shades of Grey as told by Christian is well the first book but told from the POV of Christian himself. Although i know what is going to happen and what is said between the two i am still hooked. The book allows me as a reader to read conversations he had with people when he was pursuing Anastasia and his thoughts and feelings towards this relationship which was completely different to what he had ever had before. We find out what he really felt about Ana because in the original book we only know if he said something but Christian is extremely closed off. I am finally getting to fill in those planks and finding out how and when he realised Ana wasn't going to be just a submissive but the love of his life. I am really enjoying this book and recommend to anyone.
Even if you don't like to read about sex it is an amazing book for all you romantics out there! I have really enjoyed reading this book and was reading it at any moment i got the chance. My mum at one point was getting worried because i would wake up early, read, go to work, then as soon as i returned from work i would curl back up with my book. Even during a weekend in Essex i was reading the book before bed because i didn't want to go two days without reading more.
plus for everyone who has watched the film and enjoyed it, the books are...as always...better. WAY BETTER. They delve so much more into the intensity of the relationship, both of their pasts and focus on the little things like how Christian remembers exactly how Ana likes her tea and sleeping in the same bed as her and his past with Mrs. Robinson. If you need a new book to read or have a spare moment...read these books. You will not regret it.