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Most helpful customer reviews 1757 of 1838 people found the following review helpful. The book’s protagonist is college student Anastasia, who has never had sex or even “touched herself.” I had to suspend disbelief at the social and sexual naivete of this twenty-one year-old, but I guess this implied vulnerability makes her more attractive as a romantic heroine. Yet it doesn’t take her long to rectify this situation, and soon she is having orgasm after orgasm at the behest of her “dominant” partner, Mr. Grey. At my age, my arthritis flared up just reading about Ana’s sexual gymnastics. And for some reason, I kept thinking about her contracting genital warts. Soon, however, Ana’s endless pyrotechnic climaxes resembled repetitively watching porn: after a while, it leaves me bored and yawning. That said, there was a definite infectiousness to the plot; and taking Viagra to stiffen my resolve, I persevered. James’ strong suit is her ability to elicit sympathy in the protagonist. I wanted to find out what happened to Anastasia, and that lent the story a compelling, page-turning quality. James is a polished novelist. Her dialogue is crisp, her prose poised, and her paragraphs well-parsed. The author’s considerable skills notwithstanding, would I pick up an erotic romance like this again? Probably not. But that’s just me. 1249 of 1363 people found the following review helpful. I don’t enjoy writing bad reviews, honestly it puts a sick feeling in my stomach, but at the moment I am feeling too annoyed not to write one. So please don’t get snarky – I do realise I am in the minority with my opinions. OK, I couldn’t finish this book. I tried, holy hell did I try – but by 88% I was so annoyed I had to put it down. And after a lot of contemplation I have decided not to rant and rave, but simple state in point form what I didn’t like. ~ The writing was too sterile. There was no depth and I found it hard connecting to any of it. There was a whole heap of – I touched him, he touched me, I did this, he did that. And it wasn’t engaging at all. ~ The sex – it wasn’t hot at all. I wouldn’t even classify it as erotic. For some strange reason I have the opinion that you need to be able to refer to your vagina as something more erotic than ‘down there’ before you can pull off a significant hotness rating. ~ Christian – ok, he was relatively hot but not enough to get my blood pumping. He wasn’t alpha enough for me. One moment he is trying to be hard core the next he is gasping because she is wearing his underwear. ~ The price….I don’t get it. How can a publisher charge this much for a book written so badly?? …..ok, I could go on, I could practically write a novel, but I won’t. I will take my Inner Goddess (seriously if I had to read that line one more time I would have caused self harm) and my find something else to read. 106 of 113 people found the following review helpful. I skimmed about half of it, noting that other reviewers were very correct about the repetitive language. Ana blushes. She blushes again. She turns crimson and says Jeez and Oh Crap and Damn and blushes again. (Repeat every page or paragraph or every sentence or so.) She gasps, he gasps. She blushes and talks to herself a lot, in italics. He has grey eyes, long fingers; she’s apparently the most naive person in America. OK, that’s three chapters. As others have noted, there are a lot of British terms for an American girl to be speaking–one that hasn’t been mentioned here is when she gets mad at her roommate and thinks, “I don’t usually throw toys from my pram.” The hey? No one calls a carriage a pram here, and that saying is not in my memory. Also, there’s a use of very old-fashioned terms, such as “uncle’s monkey” and “paying peanuts” for rent. And yes, you don’t drive through Portland to get to Seattle from Vancouver. Well. So I didn’t read the rest of the novel. I don’t want to, given the very poor execution and lack of editorial control in the three chapters I read. Sorry, you BSDM fans.
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