Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Oct 12, 2016 Jenn rated it did not like it

Shelves: did-not-finish, made-a-movie-or-tv-show

A friend loaned me this whole series. I barely made it through the first book. It took me about eight months to finish it. I got about one third of the way through this installment, and just couldn't make myself finish the book or the series. I had always (with one or two minor exceptions) made myself finish a book once i started it. This book began the start of me respecting and valuing my time and full heartedly embracing the belief that I have better things to do, and so many more books to re A friend loaned me this whole series. I barely made it through the first book. It took me about eight months to finish it. I got about one third of the way through this installment, and just couldn't make myself finish the book or the series. I had always (with one or two minor exceptions) made myself finish a book once i started it. This book began the start of me respecting and valuing my time and full heartedly embracing the belief that I have better things to do, and so many more books to read, than wasting my time reading something I hate.

And yes, I do hate this book. The writing is awful. I've read middle school term papers that were better written.

I hate Christian Grey. He is not romantic. He is not some slightly broken bad boy you can fix. The dude has series issues that he should seek counseling for before he dumps his baggage on some poor girl. And his relationship with Anna isn't just unhealthy (and I'm not referring to the S&M/B&D here) it's stalkerish, creepy, abusive....I could go on and on. I would NEVER allow a guy to treat me that way (again not referring to the B&D community in anyway). He has no respect for boundaries. Come on he pulls a tampon out of her ... which is just eww. There needs to be some mystery in a relationship and for me tampons fall into that category. And let's not even talk about his mommy issues.

Now let's talk about Anna. She for me is the poster child for the "too stupid to live" tag that reviewers are attaching to characters now. There is a difference between being naive and unexperienced and being flat out stupid. She felt some of Christian’s actions were wrong and she should have got the heck out of dodge. She should have stood her ground. She should have had enough respect for herself to not keep going back. The situations in this book and the one previous weren't love. Christian isn't something you could fix over the span of three novels. He has deep seated issues. I feel like Anna is shallow to put up with this crap just because he is good looking, mysterious, and don't forget rich. I just don't find the author's excuses for why Anna puts up with all of this and is so deeply in instalove to be believable. And my goodness if she said "Oh My" one more time I think I was going to throw the book at the wall.

I don't normally leave such scathing reviews....but I hated this book, and the series, and how it had millions of teenage girls and grown women thinking that this type of abusive b.s. is romantic or how they should allow a man to treat them.
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Sep 01, 2012 Barbara ★ rated it it was ok

Shelves: h-h-disfigured-handicapped, erotica, h-h-abused-tortured, x-set-in-usa-washington, read-2012, second-chances, erotica-bdsm, music

For a 532 page book, not a lot of nothing happened. The writing is still like a high schooler wrote it using a thesaurus every once in a while but not nearly enough. If Ana thought Holy cow or Holy fuck once more I thought I was going to scream. And her inner goddess, could she get any more annoying? She's so needy, naive and insecure.

I love me a tortured hero but Christian is just too much. He wasn't kidding when he said "Fifty shades of fu**ed up!" He's so possessive and even more needy than ...more

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Jan 19, 2013 Toni rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-fiction, suspense, romance, favorites, fiction, 18, erotica, bdsm

After having read the first book in the Fifty Shades trilogy, I wasn't expecting a syntactic work of art. I anticipated writing that was predictable at best, and I presumed this novel would be filled with similar expressions and descriptions which filled the first. For those expectations, I was not disappointed.

However, also from reading the first novel, I expected a good story. I looked forward to a story with familiar characters whom I had grown attached to, I looked forward to more secrets un ...more

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Feb 07, 2017 Krysta rated it it was ok

I always have been a glutton for punishment regarding books.
I only read this series because my sister in law invited me to the Fifty Shades Darker premiere and paid for my ticket. I prefer to read the book before I see the movie...so here we are.
This is one of the few times that I enjoyed the movie more than the book.
In the book, Christian is creepy, controlling, manipulative, and mean. The movie tones down his "ick-factor" a lot and actually makes him much more likeable (though his creepiness i ...more

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Jun 24, 2012 Nancy Brady rated it liked it

Shelves: e-book, library-book

Reading as a bundled set of all three, this is the second in the series. Continuing where the first one leaves off, Anastasia has left Christian because of his extreme cruelty and his messed-up psyche. Her friend Jose brings them back together via his art show a few days later. Ana continues to be an emotional mess regarding Grey and her relationship...making her subconscious and inner goddess alternately happy,sad, or angry depending... Adding to her emotional morass, she has to deal with his e ...more

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