Fifty Shades - Review

I am a murder mystery and horror story kind of girl but was intrigued by the adverts of this BDSM trilogy, Fifty Shades by EL James.  The reviews of "mommy porn" just intrigued me! LOL Once you get past the "mommy porn" part you find a really good story line. I was glued to the pages of Fifty Shades of Grey and still am with Fifty Shades Darker. I have found both to be very addicting.

It's a love story between Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. I think the complexity of Christian's character is what has intrigued me the most. You love him and hate him and love to hate him all at the same time.  Christian is the alpha male personified with bad boy tendencies and the desire to inflict pain for pleasure. Anastasia on the other hand is an innocent college student and happens to still be a virgin. This is their deeply disturbing love story.

I think my favorite phrase in the storyline is "Fifty Shades of f'd up", how Ana refers to Christian most times.  With his demons and desire to dominate her into submissiveness.  Christian introduces Ana to the "dark side" of his sexual habits and in his desire to control her agrees to trying the "vanilla side" of a relationship.

Now, don't forget the "mommy porn", the erotic, steamy, sexy and scary descriptions of their interludes is not for the faint of heart.  It's hot and mind blowing all wrapped up together.  It's also quite the psychological thriller with all the mind games the two play back and forth to manipulate in their own rights.

The real love story is how Anastasia brings out feelings in Christian that he has never felt with anyone else. I can't wait to read all three books to see how it all ends for the two of them.