50 Shades of Grey

Well I jumped on the 50 shades band wagon and brought the books. I read them in a week! I'm starting to think the books are a little like marmite - you love them or you hate them. Most of the people I know who have read them love them but Ollie's mum was not impressed by them.

I cant tell you what it is about them that makes them so easy to read but you are gripped by the story and eager to know what comes next. At some points its quiet fantastical, the finding someone who is uber rich that wants to buy you amazing things and take you into his amazing world where helicopter rides, holidays on huge yachts, fast cars and amazingly expensive clothes are the norm, but isn't that what a lot of women out there fantasise about? Its a modern Cinderella story in that sense. There is some pretty detailed sex in it but I personally don't think that the label of "Lady Porn" is right. The first book has a lot of sex in it but as the story develops and the characters grow only new experiences are given in depth.

The characters are the type of people that you probably walk past in the street and admire from a far. Christian being that handsome out of reach, sharp suited business man that you see in the coffee shop each morning when you get off your train on your commute to London that you wish you had the nerve to say hello to. Anastasia is the type of super shy pretty girl that is so helpful when you need her help in the office but keeps herself to herself and never goes out for that Friday night drink after work.

One of the thing that keeps you gripped but I think a lot of women have trouble relating to is the innocence of Ana. A lot of us reading would have been more than willing to go along with anything that Christian wants to do, where as she is hesitant and over thinks everything. But the more you read the books the more you realise that Christian is the innocent one. He has never allowed himself to be open to all that Ana has to offer him so both of them grow in the books, each in a different way but to the same end.

I cant say too much else or ill be giving the story away and those who have'nt read them should, even if its only to know if you're a lover or a hater.