50 Shades of Grey: My Take

Yes, I'm sure there are tons of posts and blogs and websites that covered this book a long time ago. Well, consider me late. I didn't even read this book until after I kept seeing news reports on tv about how 50 Shades of Grey helped save peoples' marriages. With that claim in mind, I had to read it.

I'm not into purchasing books based just on reputation without doing some review searching, but I made an exception for this one. I'm not married by any means, but I was just curious. Definitely curious.

First Glance

So I headed to my local bookstore to find this book, only to discover they were sold out and that I'd have to order it. I did.

When I finally got the book and read the back of it I was thinking "Ok, sounds like a romance mixed with a thriller. I'm sold."

The Story

Once I finally started reading 50 Shades of Grey, I was disappointed. I was hoping the story would be a lot less romantic (if that's what you want to call it) and more exciting (i.e: missing people, blood, dead bodies with no suspect yet) but it wasn't. It was a drag and I was bored while reading it. It was very repetitive and although I never toss a book in the trash before I'm done reading it (it's just a rule of mine) I knew by the time I was done reading it I would want my life back.

Surprise, surprise!

This book isn't large by any means (thank goodness) but it literally took me 2 weeks to finish it! It was that bad. However, I finally made it to the end. Surprisingly, I couldn't wait to get the second one!

Somewhere between the middle of the book and the end, there was evidence of something exciting happening. No, not the crazy "romance", but the story was finally starting to unfold. There were too many questions that I wanted answered like "What REALLY happened to this guy?" and "Who did THAT?"

It was a very long, torturous buildup but 50 Shades of Grey definitely may have been one of the best purchases I've made in the past year.

I guess I'm a sucker for surprises.