50 Shades of Grey
Editor’s Note, WARNING: This is not for younger audiences. Second WARNING: This book is poorly written.
Starting out as fanfiction for the overly popular book series, the Twilight Saga, 50 Shades of Grey has been topping the best-sellers list and gaining an unexpected amount of attention across the nation.
I’ve never read the Twilight series, but I’ve heard that 50 Shades of Grey was almost an exact mirror image of the series, except for certain aspects of the plot. Both Bella and Anastasia are the type of girls who attract “good-looking” guys without even doing or saying anything. Their personalities are so blank, yet guys are following them like love sick puppies.
Anastasia Steele, an innocent, young woman, catches the eye of impossibly wealthy and gorgeous Christian Grey when she (literally) falls into his office on her way to give him an interview. After their encounter, she begins to run into him almost everywhere. Soon after she rejects her fairly good-looking friend, Anastasia and Christian to his super expensive house on his private jet where their relationship blossoms and certain contracts are made.
Christian Grey is written almost out of a fairytale. Throughout the book, he spends almost all his time away from Anastasia at his super big and popular company by texting, emailing, and calling her. Besides being so rich to the point where he can buy (and do) anything he wants, he’s breathtakingly handsome, a talented pianist, trained pilot, and fluent in French. He seems to be a bit too perfect for someone with such a tragic background.
Lastly, the wording. If I had a nickel for every time I read about Anastasia blushing or biting her lip, I’d be a millionaire. The author seems to lack vocabulary because she uses the same words over and over again to the point where I want to throw the book across the room.
At times even, the dialogue gets a bit over-the-top corny (ex. “Laters, baby”) and it just feels like it was written by a lonely, lovesick teenager rather than a married middle-aged woman.
