So, I did
it. I read them; all three of them. What am I talking about? The “Fifty Shades”
trilogy by E.L. James of course! What are my thoughts? Well, for starters, they certainly do not live up to
all of their hype, that’s for sure!
In my opinion they were OK,
no more than that. Definitely not the page turner I had anticipated and the
storyline was a bit unrealistic but they ARE fiction after all. The main thing
that bothered me was the writing itself. The level and/or style of writing which
the author uses are horribly repetitive and amateur! As one review said, if you
were to pick one of the many “repeated phrases” used in this book and drink
every time you read it you would be blackout drunk by chapter 4! Thankfully, I
got used to the writing by the end of the first book which made it easier to
read the remaining two.
As for the sex
scenes, this is most likely where all of the hype came from I assume. The scenes were
probably quite shocking to A LOT of people. But, after an
average of one scene per chapter I found myself getting quite bored with them and wanting
to just skip through and get to the story amidst all of the sex. As you all know, I
have now learned that I don’t mind a good sex scene thrown in now and then,
but when the book has a higher percentage of smut than plot it is a little discouraging.
In the last book I would literally jump through pages to get back to the
storyline because I didn’t care for the garbage anymore.
I think
this is a series that most will either love or hate, but I am still somewhere
in the middle. Once I was reading I didn’t want to put it down, but after
putting it down I would go days without picking it up again. It kept me busy on
the bus to work and waiting for appointments and such, but I wouldn’t read them
again.
It’s back
to chick-lit for me for a bit! Oh, and to the “Fifty Shades” readers… Laters!
