Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed)

Here are reviews from all three booksI love this book! I've read it before, but wanted to read it again. It was just as good the second time.Anna's roommate is sick with the flu. Kate has attempted to get an interview with Christian Grey for 9 months for the student paper she works on. She can't pass up this chance, so she begs Anna to do the interview for her, because she is sick.Anna is nervous, and literally falls into Christian's office. Anna reads the questions that Kate has prepared. One of the questions was, Christian are you gay? She was so embarrassed, and explained that she was reading the questions that her roommate wrote down. After the interview Christian wants more time with Anna. He ask if he can show her the building. Anna says no, that she needs to get home to study. Christian is torn. He knows he needs to stay away from Anna, but he is drawn to her. He goes to her work and shops. He agrees to a photo shoot to go along with the article. Before long Christian is attempting to talk Anna into being his submissive. He gave her rules, and a contract to read and go over before she makes up her mind. Anna is so innocent. She doesn't know what half of it means.I love how Anna's subconscious is almost like another character in this wonder story. The subconscious will sometimes cheer Anna on, or at times make snide comments.My favorite parts to the book are below:Sample from chapter 10:"What's vanilla sex?" I ask, if anything to distract myself from the intense, burning, sexy look he's giving me. He laughs. "Just straightforward sex, Anastasia. No toys, no add-ons," He shrugs. "You know...Well actually you don't, but that's what it means." "Oh." I thought it was chocolate fudge brownie sex that we had, with a cherry on the top. But hey, what do I know?"Sample from chapter 11: The only man I've ever been attracted to, and he comes with a bloody contract, a flogger, and a whole world of issues. Well, at least I got my way this weekend. My inner goddess stops and smiles serenely. Oh yes... She mouths, nodding at me smugly. I flush at the memorySample from chapter 26: This is a man in need. His fear is naked and obvious, but he's lost...Somewhere in his darkness. His eyes are wide and bleak and tortured. I can soothe him, join him briefly in the darkness and bring him into the light.The sample from chapter 26, sums up the book. Anna is so full life, so innocent. Christian however is a darker soul. Has had a bad childhood before he was adopted. When he is around Anna we get to see glimpse of him laughing. Anna, and Christian share many first together in this book. I loved the book, but didn't care for the end. It does however end perfect to set up for the next book in the series.*********************************************This is a series of three books and should be read in order starting with 50 shades of grey. This part of the review is for fifty shades darker. In this book I loved how Anna's and Christian's relationship grew. I really enjoyed their fun email, and text banter. The suspense to the story will keep you holding your breath. In this book Anna has to deal with her boss who is a pervert. Christian and Anna have to deal with Christian's crazy exes. The romance between Christian and Anna is off the charts Hot and steamy. This is an adult book for 18 and older.In the past Christian never did romance or love. He had subs to satisfy his needs. He met Anna in the first book. Anna took his breath away. He asked Anna to be his sub. Anna left him before she signed his contract. The second book starts out with both being miserable. They both want more. Christian offers Anna a relationship. This is new to both of them, so they experience a lot of first together. Anna is afraid she can't be everything Christian needs. Christian assures her, she is everything he will ever need.Sample from chapter 9 - "Do you have any idea how exquisite your scent s, Ana? It's irresistible." His words do what they always do, Flame my blood, quicken my pulse, and he trails his nose down my throat, across my breasts, kissing me reverentially as he does. "You are so beautiful," He murmurs,Sample from chapter 12 - "Anastasia, It's not like that. I don't like talking about this shit. I've lived in a bubble for years with nothing affecting me and not having to justify myself to anyone. She's always been there as a confidante. And now my past and my future are colliding in a way I never thought possible." I glance at him and he's staring at me, his eyes wide. "I never thought I had a future with anyone, Anastasia. You give me hope and have me thinking about all sorts of possibilities." He drifts off.**************************************************This is a series of 3 books that should be read in order. Fifty shades of gray, fifty shades darker, and fifty shades free. This series is for adults 18 years and up for it is an erotic romance. The sex is red hot, and the romance is sweet. This part of the review is for the book fifty shades free.Here are some samples of my favorite parts of book three.Sample from chapter 7 - I kiss his chest, and we lie silently watching as the x-files finish and the commercials come on. "It's been a heavenly three weeks. Car chases and fires and psycho ex - bosses notwithstanding. Like being in our own private bubble," I mutter dreamily.Sample from chapter 8 - "You've got to let me make my own decisions, take my own risks, and make my own mistakes, and let me learn from them. I need to walk before I can run, Christian, don't you see? I want some independence. That's what my name means to me." There, that's what I wanted to say this afternoon. "You feel railroaded?" He whispers. I nod. He closes his eyes, agitated. "I just want to give you the world, Ana, everything and anything you want. And save you from it, too. Keep you safe. But I also want everyone to know your mine.Sample from chapter 10"What do you need?" ask Mrs. Jones, stepping forward. She's recovered her composure. "Something to restrain him, cord or rope," Ryan replies. Cable ties. I flush as memories of the night before invade my mind. Reflexively, I rub my wrists and glance quickly down at them. No, no bruising. Good. "I have something. Cable ties. Will they do? All eyes turn to me. "Yes ma'am. Perfect." Sawyer says, serious and straight faced. I want the floor to swallow me up, but I turn and head to our bedroom. Sometimes you just have to brazen things out. Perhaps it's the combination of fear and alcohol making me audacious.Sample from chapter 13 - He tips my chin up with his finger, leans down, and kisses me tenderly. "So are you." I smile. "Though I feel like I cheated. I didn't have to wait for you at all." He grins. "Am I that much of a prize?" "Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one." He raises a brow. "When will you realize this?" I scold him.Sample from chapter 23 - "Oh ana," Christian whispers, his voice anguished and pained. "I thought I'd lost you. Then I thought I'd lost you again. Seeing you lying on the ground, pale and cold and unconscious, it was all my worst fears realized. And now here you are, brave and strong...giving me hope. Loving me after all that I've done. "Yes, I do love you Christian desperately. I always will." Gently taking my head between his hands, he wipes my tears away with his thumbs. He gazes into my eyes, gray to blue, and all I see is his fear, and wonder, and love. "I love you, too," He breathes. And he kisses me sweetly, tenderly, like a man who adores his wife.********************************************After reading all three books I can't help but smile on thinking back to how Christian and Ana got together. Ana's roommate was sick, so Ana was volunteered to interview Christian (Mr. Gray) for Kate that worked on the student newspaper. After graduation Ana got drunk for the first time ever, and drunk dialed Christian...And this is how the story begins. Ana and Christian is a beautiful, and erotic romance.

I have read widely since a child and there have been many books I have loved, books that I have read and reread, and that became part of who I am. Almost without exception they have been love stories and they have seldom been great works of literature, with some exceptions of course, like “The Great Gatsby”. The Angelique series, “The Clan of the Cave Bear” series, Helga Moray’s “Untamed” series, Ayn Rand’s books, some of Wilbur Smith’s and Bryce Courtenay’s novels, come to mind. Some have required a suspension of disbelief, like the Harry Potter books – I have never liked fantasy, and have no belief in magic and witchcraft, yet I loved the books and the films and Rowling created a world that has become almost real to so many people, and very much part of our collective consciousness.50 Shades required a similar suspension of disbelief and even of dislike, initially, as I abhor violence of any kind and have no interest in BDSM and its manifestations, and was a little put off by the publicity I had read. Nonetheless, James created a trilogy that, true to the blurb on the back was “romantic, liberating, and totally addictive, …that will obsess you, possessed you and which will stay with you forever”. She created in Christian a flawed, charismatic hero, redeemed by love, who I was fascinated by, intrigued with and fell in love with. The same holds for many of the other characters in the book. I liked the author’s sense of humour, I wept frequently in all the books, and that ability to move me deeply did not diminish with repeated re-readings – I still cry every time in some of the scenes in which Ana tries to banish his demons. They are so powerfully written, and the love story is so beautiful, so full of passion and emotion that I found myself totally swept away – something that happens only rarely. In that respect perhaps only “Wuthering Heights” comes close.And then there is the sex. I think it is very difficult to write a good love story that is not soppy. It is even harder to write about sex so that it is erotic, passionate, but not prurient or off-putting. To write about sex for page after page over 3 books is a gift, from which millions of women, and men, around the world, are happily reaping the benefit. Some of the other books that are currently trying to cash in on the trend, claiming to be better than “50 Shades”, like Sylvia Day’s “Bared To You” and various others, are totally derivative, humourless and very crude by comparison and none of them that I have read have the enormous pull of love that underlies every scene.For me, reading the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy has been a joyous, profoundly moving and arousing experience. It has reminded us of emotions and feelings we experienced and things we did years ago and still feel and do, and taught us a few new ones. It is my belief that anyone in a loving relationship, both men and women, would benefit from reading it.