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black_cat_1876
Aug 13, 2018black_cat_1876 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I have a number of things to say about this book. First of all, it's horribly written. Rumor has it, it originated from fanfiction so I guess that's to be expected. All the "sex" scenes are written like a nun wrote them. There's no flair, and no taste. The whole series depicts the concept of "fixing" someone with mental health problems, which is an issue in its own. As someone with a similar background to Grey, I feel very personally offended by the fact that she "fixed" him in the later books. Grey is stalkerish, and heavily abusive towards Steele, and I hate the way the author depicts this as "BDSM" As someone who enjoys the BDSM lifestyle, this is NOT real BDSM. This is abuse, manipulation, stalking, and invasion of privacy. Genuinely one of the most offensive books I've ever read, and I genuinely hope the author loses all sort of revenue from this book in a series of bad investments. She did no research on how any sort of BDSM scene is supposed to be played out. For those of you who think the raunchy sex scenes redeem it, they don't. Period. They barely last a few paragraphs, are very repetitive, have no time skips (implying they're both ridiculously quick in bed) and in general are extremely vanilla for a book about "BDSM" This piece of absolute offensive garbage should never have been made into a book, let alone a movie franchise. For everyone just starting to get into BDSM because of this book like I was a few years ago, please PLEASE do more research before doing ANYTHING related to BDSM. This is a very very horrible way to learn about the lifestyle that could cause long-term issues with your sex life.