Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Fifty Shades of Grey
by E.L. James

Published: May 26th 2011
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Pages: 540
Series: Fifty Shades
Source: Borrowed
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When literature
student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the
successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.

The unworldly, innocent Ana is shocked to realize she wants this man, and when he warns her to keep her distance it only makes her more desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her - but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success – his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving adoptive family – Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a passionate, physical and daring affair, Ana learns more about her own dark desires, as well as the Christian Grey hidden away from public scrutiny.

Can their relationship transcend physical passion? Will Ana find it in herself to submit to the self-indulgent Master? And if she does, will she still love what she finds?

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

*MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS*
Someone described this book with a term "housewife porn"; there's no need for a plot just as long as there's lots and lots of porn. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Erotic? There's hardly anything erotic with two people just going at it like rabbits. Amusing? Naaaah. Deeply moving.. What book are they talking about?!

I wanted to stop reading this half way through, because that's when author ran out of ideas. But I continued, because the first half was at least some what entertaining. Definitely not believable, but vaguely entertaining. I kept going, but as said, author ran out of ideas. And guess what she does? Writes two more books.

I didn't really like the characters, because they were just repeating the same thing over and over again, they had no personality and they really were just dull.
I usually dislike male characters who say things women wants them to say.
Like you can imagine there's this lady playing with Barbie and Ken, imitating male voice and she's grunting

"oh baby, you're so hot! You make me hot. I'm on fire", says Ken. High-pitched Barbie continues "But.. I've never been touched before." Ken grunts, again "You're.. a virgin? OMG." High-pitched "Yeah." Ken is like "Wow. That's awesome. I wanna fuck you." High-pitched "Yeah." Ken is like "Show me how you touch yourself." Barbie, high-pitched and shocked: "I would never do that! Don't you see I'm all innocent and even though I'm 45, I've never touched myself before?! Because only you make me hot." Ken, like "WOW. Like AWESOME. Like you're so awesome I come like now."

Oh, except in this case dirty- Barbie and -Ken sound British, even though they are American. What's the deal with that?!
Don't get me even started with the freaking twitching palm, inner goddess, schizophrenic behavior, red room of pain.. This sucked so bad. And now I have headache, apparently even thinking about this book makes my hurt.

Where It Began by Ann Redisch Stampler

Aargh! I've been trying to write this review for two days now, but thanks to some "amazing new changes" in Blogger, this s**t just wouldn't work.

I'm using Opera, and after millions of tries decided to try Firefox and it's finally working. But I'm still not pleased, since I don't wanna use FF, I wanna use my Opera! Damn this s**t.

Where It Began
by Ann Redisch Stampler

Published: March 6th 2012
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Format : Hardcover
Pages: 384
Series: -
Source: Borrowed
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Sometimes the end is just the beginning.

Gabby lived under the radar until her makeover. Way under.
But when she started her senior year as a blonder, better-dressed version of herself, she struck gold: Billy Nash believed she was a the flawless girl she was pretending to be. The next eight months with Billy were bliss...

Until the night Gabby woke up on the ground next to the remains of his BMW without a single memory of how she got there.

And Billy's nowhere to be found.

All Gabby wants is to make everything perfect again. But getting her life back isn't difficult, it's impossible.

Because nothing is the same, and Gabby's beginning to realize she's missed more than a few danger signs along the way.

It's time for Gabby to face the truth, even if it means everything changes.

Especially if it means everything changes.

*MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS*
This is a story of a girl, who had it all. Until one night, when she hits a tree while DUI. Since just like with any story, there's more than meets the eye.

Love how it sounds, right? I know I was thrilled when I first heard about this!
The beginning is especially intriguing, when Gabby tries to put the pieces together to remember the night of the accident.
She's also physically weak, and it takes a lot of effort for her to regain her strength.

Still like the sound of this? I did. But after that everything just went down the hill.
We get to meet Gabby's parents and friends and all you can think about is.. How can they be so stupid?? Seriously, are you kidding me?! Doesn't even one person own a half of braincell?! It's just unbelievable!
There's Gabby, who is phlegmatic and so stupid it hurts. She's also condescending and blind and did I mention stupid?
And why do I think she's condescending? There's a "friend" of her, Andie. She's cute and stupid (of course, what else did you expect..), but she's just so adorable that you can overlook her stupidity. But whenever Gabby is talking with her, or even thinking about her, all she thinks is how stupid Andie is. Hello, pot, kettle, anyone?

I though this would be a book where Gabby little by little would realize the truth about everything, because who wouldn't want to know the truth? Well, apparently Gabby!
All she says to everyone and everything is "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT".
And you would think that after the truth is revealed Gabby would be driven enough to defend herself at any cost and make the right thing? Wrong! She continues being the phlegmatic spoiled little brat she's been the whole time!
We do get a tiny little happy ending, but no thanks to Gabby. Surprise!

After the first half of the book I just wished I was one of those people who can quit reading in the middle of the book, but unfortunately I'm not. So no matter what, I had to finish this. I did try to give myself concussion, since I kept hitting myself to the head with this book, just to make the pain go away (you know, causing physical pain to forget about the mental one etc..).

This book had such a huge potential, but the cast ruined everything. If only they were like normal people, but no, they were straight from some bad reality tv. No acting skills, so everything they say sounds untrue and just.. bad, and no enough brains to produce any coherent speech.

If I'd rate this book only by judging the story, I would give o.5 cupcakes, but since I love the cover and the synopsis sounded awesome, I have to give 1 cupcake.