This review of the 50 Shades of Grey Trilogy attempts to understand why the books have become such a success.
The novels originally started out as Twilight fan fiction so as anyone who has read Twilight will know, the novels are, in essence, a romance between a couple with very different personalities and backgrounds.
The two main characters in the books are Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey with Christian being the "50 Shades" from the title.
Anastasia is an inexperienced, innocent college student. She is young and beautiful and self-conscious. She has never been in love and never found anyone who even tempted her into a relationship. Although she has many admirers she is unaware of the effect she has on the men in her life so when she first stumbles into Christians office she is not expecting to find love and at first she doesn't.
Christian is the complete opposite of Ana, he is a successful self-made billionaire who also happens to be extremely handsome but feels he is incapable of loving anyone. He comes across as jealous, controlling and bad tempered, all of which he is. He does not have relationships, just sexual partners and to call it a partnership would be wrong it is much more like an arrangement.
Without giving too much away the plot revolves around the couple's relationship. it's a case of opposites attract in the extreme and the struggle the pair have to try and fit into each other's world. Can two people with two completely different outlooks make a relationship work?
The books are classed as erotic fiction and they are, but the underlying plot is not the sexual relationship between the pair but the emotional and physical connection. A series of novels about a couple who strive to make it against the odds.
So why do readers love the 50 Shades Trilogy?
Quite simply, because it's a love story and the novels appeal to women mostly. However many people wrongly assume that the subject of BDSM and the idea of perhaps being handcuffed or spanked are what has women all over the world excited about the series. The truth is that the appeal for many women is not in fact the steamy scenario's presented in the books but the all-consuming love that Christian has for Ana.
The novels originally started out as Twilight fan fiction so as anyone who has read Twilight will know, the novels are, in essence, a romance between a couple with very different personalities and backgrounds.
The two main characters in the books are Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey with Christian being the "50 Shades" from the title.
Anastasia is an inexperienced, innocent college student. She is young and beautiful and self-conscious. She has never been in love and never found anyone who even tempted her into a relationship. Although she has many admirers she is unaware of the effect she has on the men in her life so when she first stumbles into Christians office she is not expecting to find love and at first she doesn't.
Christian is the complete opposite of Ana, he is a successful self-made billionaire who also happens to be extremely handsome but feels he is incapable of loving anyone. He comes across as jealous, controlling and bad tempered, all of which he is. He does not have relationships, just sexual partners and to call it a partnership would be wrong it is much more like an arrangement.
Without giving too much away the plot revolves around the couple's relationship. it's a case of opposites attract in the extreme and the struggle the pair have to try and fit into each other's world. Can two people with two completely different outlooks make a relationship work?
The books are classed as erotic fiction and they are, but the underlying plot is not the sexual relationship between the pair but the emotional and physical connection. A series of novels about a couple who strive to make it against the odds.
So why do readers love the 50 Shades Trilogy?
Quite simply, because it's a love story and the novels appeal to women mostly. However many people wrongly assume that the subject of BDSM and the idea of perhaps being handcuffed or spanked are what has women all over the world excited about the series. The truth is that the appeal for many women is not in fact the steamy scenario's presented in the books but the all-consuming love that Christian has for Ana.
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