Author: E.L. James
# of Pages: 532 (ebook)
Genre: Adult, Romance, Contemporary
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Synopsis: 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.
Review: I never planned to read the second book, but I thought it would be an easy read to knock out for my yearly reading challenge.
Boy, was I wrong.
All the annoyance that I was expecting to feel when reading Fifty Shades of Grey finally came out while reading this book. James's writing style hasn't improved, and the most interesting part - Christian's mysterious past - is not interesting as I initially thought (nothing that wasn't already said/inferred from the first book was revealed in this book).
The plot is unrealistic, and their relationship is too fast paced for me to feel happy about the "progress" Christian and Ana made in their relationship. There wasn't much of a plot either; it reads like a really bad slice-of-life. As I read through sex scene after sex scene I wondered; where exactly are they going with this? I'm assuming the main problem is suppose to be Christian dealing with his baggage, but it seems way too drawn out across the 500+ pages that makes up this book.
Ana is extremely unlikeable. She's insecure and is not strong and independent as she likes to think she is.
Christian has stalker tendencies (this is even stated in the book). It's not attractive; it's toxic.
Reading nothing would have been better than reading this. I would not recommend.
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