Fifty Shades of Grey was never much-loved by the critics, but they were much kinder towards Sam Taylor-Johnson's movie adaptation.
It seems the whips are back out for El James's spinoff book Grey. The novel retells the story of the first Fifty Shades novel, this time from the viewpoint of Christian Grey rather than Anastasia Steele.
The Telegraph - Bryony Gordon
"Grey, the fourth book from El James, is about as sexy as a misery memoir and as arousing as the diary of a sex offender.
"The writing is not the offensive thing about this book. It's the sense that, like Ana with Christian, the reader is being duped in to a manipulative relationship with it. In the last chapters, James layers on the sympathy for Grey in a way that feels horribly calculated. "
The Mirror - Francesca Cookney
"While action-hungry fans will be thrilled by the more graphic sex scenes,...
It seems the whips are back out for El James's spinoff book Grey. The novel retells the story of the first Fifty Shades novel, this time from the viewpoint of Christian Grey rather than Anastasia Steele.
The Telegraph - Bryony Gordon
"Grey, the fourth book from El James, is about as sexy as a misery memoir and as arousing as the diary of a sex offender.
"The writing is not the offensive thing about this book. It's the sense that, like Ana with Christian, the reader is being duped in to a manipulative relationship with it. In the last chapters, James layers on the sympathy for Grey in a way that feels horribly calculated. "
The Mirror - Francesca Cookney
"While action-hungry fans will be thrilled by the more graphic sex scenes,...
- 6/22/2015
- Digital Spy
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