Title: FIFTY SHADES DARKER
Series: Fifty Shades #2
Author: E.L. James
Publish Date: 09.13.11
Publisher: Vintage
Category /Genre: Erotica, Romance
Recommended
for: 18+ due to sexual content and
child abuse scenarios.
Received from: Amazon purchase
Date completed: 03.15.14
Goodreads link: Fifty
Shades Darker
Description from the publisher:
SOON TO BE A MAJOR
MOTION PICTURE
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades.
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life.
This book is intended for mature audiences.
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades.
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life.
This book is intended for mature audiences.
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This is book two of a trilogy and
they do need to be read in order.
I have continued reading the trilogy
and I will finish book three, just because of that play I am going to next
week. (SPANKS)
This is a sweet romance between Ana
and Christian. I love that they are
breaking down the barriers that they see between them and I have enjoyed their
discovery of their love for one another.
We still have the weird comments
about Ana’s subconscious and her “inner goddess,” but mostly those were just
funny or eye-roll funny. We also have
the sophomoric vocabulary crossed with a word-of-the-day calendar that is
enough to make anyone with a literary sense want to scream.
Finally, I must tell you that I
believe that Ms. James has failed in the first tenant of writing and that is to
write about what you know. It is obvious that she is not well acquainted
with members of the BDSM community and she most definitely is not a member of
the community. I am beyond livid at her implication that we are
broken people. People in the lifestyle do not need psychiatric
help. Dominants and submissives (of all flavors) are not the result of
improper introduction into their sexual selves. We are people.
That’s it – people. Those in the scene just happen to like other flavors,
sprinkles, nuts, cherries, and chocolate sauce on our ice cream.
If you want to read books that more
accurately depict the scene, I suggest (with links to purchase):
Others that have been suggested to
me (with links to purchase):
See you soon with the review for
book three, but at this point, I’m just reading to say I did finish it. My apologies to the vanilla crowd who think
this is what BDSM is really like and/or really liked this series.
Grammar/editing: B – a few small
errors
The series:
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- Fifty Shades Darker
- Fifty Shades Freed
originally posted 03.15.2014 on my
previous website
WordPress.com closed that site
because I promoted authors and their books.
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