Grey question

to each their own right? i can say for myself that i'm a fan of the male POV on stories - and in this one we get to see a bit more about how Christian ticks especially as he's just met Ana, but not everyone's into that.

Nope. Not necessary it's the same freaking book. You learn nothing new... wait yes you do... Mr Grey isn't the domineering man. He is a confused & emotional chick... I mean guy!

My 2 cents- I've said this in my own review and I'll say it again. I wish we could have seen him with his other subs. See how he acted with them so we can see how Ana knocks him off balance. But no, we get the same old until about 75% thru the book and then we get a little more.

He was also very insecure, which didn't make sense since he is so domineering, but whatever. It would have made better sense if we again, saw him with his other subs.

I'm curious about the 2nd book since he disappears for periods at a time. Will not buy it at full price though.

Well, I know I am late in this game. I enjoyed the trilogy and as it was from Ana's POV, I was really looking forward to reading their story from Christian's perspective. Especially after reading the epilog of Fifty shades freed, I thought I might get answers about Elena and Christian's BDSM relationship, why did he think that Elena helped him, his relationships with his 15 subs before meeting Ana and many other things. But it didn't answer any of these, though I agree with Liv that I liked the part describing how miserable he was after Ana left him and how he came to a decision of winning her back in his life with the help of Dr. Flynn. So that was something.

No, it never was. You don't really learn anything, Christian comes off even worse and James tries to justifiy every awful thing he does so Ana is wrong, even when she's right.

i think this pov is necessary to be clear where christian is coming from.i mean the disaster publishers and early readers of the fanfic version wrought on it by touting it as romance(maybe it was inspired by a so called "romantic" series of twilight and it deluded them)have to be mitigated.

this book needed to be told by christian to clear it that a rediscovery of a new way of companionship and love by an abuse and rape victim is not romantic.it is messy, chaotic, so much wrong and right intermixed. christian is not some Adonis some faction of people believe nor is a physical or mental abuser outright.he is a in between.those who read the original series carefully will see and telling it from his view will help.i mean there is reason e l james might have titled it for christian and not ana.we might see anastasia but it is an equally a novel of discovery for christian too.

also note that he is an unreliable narrator just like Anastasia is (or all POV character for that matter), so read everything with a critical eye.taking him at his word is a bad idea
and not to mention e l james is a bad writer too.i mean if one can write a nervous voice as "whimpering" and anxious as "frightened" , you can only imagine you are looking forward to a land-mine of headache.

one point i will give is that at least we are spared from overuse of inner goddess, subconscious, jeez/crap/holy (insert animal), exclamation abuse :-P
one point minus for reference of penis as an alternate ego.sheesh!

of course it is. horribly yes. it just so happened it didnt meet our expectations. believe me, everyone of fsog fans were expecting a new plot about insights of mr. grey. why? because we are all excited to know him better. isnt it, right?

I thought it was a good book, but totally unnecessary.

No, and the first three weren't necessary either. Neither was Twilight, which the series was originally a fanfic of.

yeah ! it was a little vogue ! and Ew at some point

I expected a lot more from this book too... But i cant say it wasn't completely enjoyable... If in case we a get a sequel for this book as well we could glean a lot more about Christian.

Its a one time read. :)

This book was a let down for me big time. I think that if it were released right after the other 3 maybe just maybe it would have been ok. Maybe I'm just over the hype or after movie was out I couldn't get Jamie and Dakota out of my head and that is how I was reading the book rather than the own characters I had in my mind originally. For the first time too I started reading the book the way the critics always looked at it and I'm so over it now. So in answer to your question..."nope" not necessary at all.

This book let me down. I had HIGH expectations. I knew it was Christian's POV ( Fifty Shades Of Grey ) , but it was extremely repetitive. Like Copy/Paste. There was A LOT to write about Christian, I just felt I was reading a whole new character. I'm just pretending the book doesn't exist because I have read so many books from the heroine POV and then the writer give us the hero POV, and they do an AMAZING job. I just don't know why Erika couldn't do the same. . . . .

I enjoyed the trilogy and I was looking forward in GREY to REALLY finding out WHY Christian became the obsessed, control, S and M dominant male he did but.... I learned nothing new, nothing that was not alluded to in the previous books re. his mother, her drug habit, and the men who treated her and Christian badly. I "thought" that we would learn the psychology of his behavior, e.g. why exactly he couldn't stand to be touched, when what we got, IMO, was a rehashing of Books 1 - 3, and as someone else put it, mostly just cut and paste identical information from these books. Nothing concrete! I was QUITE disappointed and felt let down. Bummer !

I love it, when I was reading the first three I always wanted to know what he was thinking to see if he was actually so cold inside and to see how he fell for her the first day without him knowing it.

No, it's not necessary for me. I enjoyed all new info about Christian, but there wasn't much. I would have prefered a shorter book with not the whole story in it, but with more info about him.

I liked the last 50 pages or so, after Ana has left him. Because it continued the story where it ended in fifty shades of grey - from his POV. That was interesting and new - how he reacted after she's left him.

I had doubts before going into this book but I can say I enjoyed it MUCH more than the other 3. It was interesting to read from Christian's point of view. He is a romantic - in a messed up, but sweet, way.

Yes Ilana you are right but it still had too many excerpts from the first book and then to finish it and find out there will be more.
I only read the first three to see if we got any more info on Christian and we didn't. So in this one we got a little more on his psyche,hopefully the other two will have a lot more.