Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Title: Fifty Shades Of Grey
Author: E.L. James
Genre: Erotic Romance
Published: 2011
Rating: 1/5

I had a Fully Booked Gift certificate as a gift and decided to use it by buying Fifty Shades of Grey. I've heard a lot of comments both negative and positive about the book and decided to check it out for myself so I could form my own opinion. 

The book was written as a Twilight Saga fan fiction. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fan-fiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com.

The book is about a literature student Anastasia Steele who goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—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 family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Well what can I say about the book? I don't like it!I felt like I wasted time and my precious GC on the book. I should've read it on ebook format. I finished it because I want to see how the story unfolds but didn't like what the story further revealed. The characters are weak and lame and the story in general is lame. I can't see why a worldly man like Christian Grey is attracted to Anastasia Steele. Maybe because of her pigtails, she flushes often and a complete klutz? The book is an erotica but the sex scenes are poorly written that it didn't tickle my imagination. This is the first installment of a trilogy and I have no desire to read the rest of the books. I can't simply understand the hype this book got and how it became New York times bestseller.