Geli’s Reviews > Fifty Shades of Grey > Status Update

Finally finished with this book! I think the only masochist involved in this read was me. Not planning to read the sequels.

I have to give the author a little bit of credit, she actually advocated getting children vaccinated. Other than that, not much has improved. The latest "scene" between the main characters was marginally better than the previous ones, but just barely.

Oh, and I'm now on page 250, and the kinkiest thing that has occured so far is that the Mr. Grey has tied our heroine's hands with a necktie. *YAWN* I predict that in another 100 pages the hardest core B&D I'll have read will involve whipped cream and spanking. Soft limits, indeed.

*Spoiler alert* Once I got to page 150 I decided to count the number of times our heroine blushed. From page 150 to 200, she blushed 12 times. I came close to vomiting an equal number of times. I stopped counting after page 200. From what I've heard, if one has a Kindle, it will keep a count of the blushes, gasps, and other redundancies in the novel. Fun with technology!

I suppose I should say *spoiler alert* before writing anything more about this literary classic. As of page 145, there have finally been a couple sex scenes, all very vanilla. The writing hasn't gotten any better; this remains 2-handed reading.

50 pages into the book and so far not a single ounce of smut. Plenty of sub-par writing, however. Tired-ass, hackneyed story line and characters too.