Fifty Shades of Grey

Read: June 2012 (2x)
★★★★★

I absolutely loved this book!

I'm a sucker for love stories and this one didn't fall short.

I first heard of it because of that SNL skit about mother's day when all the moms are interrupted while reading the book, and I was immediately curious. It took me a few weeks of building up, while seeing a lot of people talking about this, and then I finally bought it.
I was mostly drawn to it because according to what I saw it was erotic, and had a lot of steamy sex scenes in it, and those are kind of my favorite scenes in the books I read (such as the Sookie Stackhouse novels). I was also expecting it to be just about that, and that it wouldn't really have a plot if that was really the focus of the book.

But I was wrong. It is about the sex, but it also has so much more to that. I loved the characters and I felt like I could identify with Ana, which is always something I like in a book (being able to identify with the main character), because it makes me more involved in the story and I'm able to understand their actions better, and it also makes me like them more. Then, came Christian. Well, anything I say about him won't do him justice, so I'll just say that he brought up a lot of emotions for me, along with Ana, of course.

Their relationship is just something else. Their personalities, although clashing so much, make a lot of sense together, and anyone who has read the book, and especially the other two, knows that they evolve into something so deep, you can't help but to get fixated in their story, and just continue reading.

The story has some twists and turns, (although I'm also thinking a little about the next two of the trilogy) mostly related to how Ana and Christian relate and get along, and in the other books it just gets better, and a bit more complex.

Just to finish up, I was so struck by this book, I immediately went and read the other two; and after finishing the series, I didn't know what to do with myself. I cried a lot while reading all of them, especially the third one (but I guess I'll make separate reviews for them as well), because I got really caught up in the story of these characters.

So, I basically read the entire series again, and it might have been even better the second time around, because there little hints that I picked up on that I hadn't really understood when I had first read it.