And splitting an adventure down into 3 tomes doesn't really cut it. Unfortunately, there’s a reason books these days don’t tend to go on for 1500+ pages and that’s because the reader loses interest no matter how hard you try. It’s something I said in my review of Fifty Shades Darker but it stands here too: these books are reading like an extension of the original story, not stories in their own right. The sex scenes also seemed much wordier than before, and more heavy than they were hot, though it may just have been that after the first 1000 pages in the ongoing saga, I already knew what to expect so didn’t need the warm up. It would have been simpler just to tell the story as it happened, skipping out weeks in between if needed, rather than to do what it did and go back and forth all over the place with dubious links in between about lying on sun loungers and letting one's mind drift back to. I found the jumping around quite irritating and amateurish in places, and it took me much longer to get into this book than the earlier titles. The style in this is quite different especially at the start. Having thrashed my way through the previous books I thought I knew what I was getting myself in for with this one, and so was quite surprised with what appeared. Trouble that even a round in the playroom won't sort out.

In her new role as Mrs Christian Grey Ana has a lot to contend with both at home and at work, and she’s barely back from the honeymoon before there's trouble brewing. She is not the naïve girl she once was, and nor is she his submissive: she is his wife, his partner, his more or less equal.

The man who fretted she would leave him, combusted internally at the sight of other men in her midst and generally liked to treat her as a possession, constantly calling her ‘my Ana’, can rest easy for she is now well and truly his. And, I suspect that is why this book is selling so well, because while it’s a mildly interesting reading, in my mind it didn’t come close to the first two offerings in terms of intriguing characters, a suspense filled plot or general kinky-fuckery.Īnastasia Steele and Christian Grey are now married. When the first book in a trilogy is outstandingly awesome, and the second is pretty darn excellent, to read the final instalment is a no-brainer really.

Summary: About to start their married life together, Ana and Christian face many challenges that even his playroom cannot resolve in this only-ok conclusion to an otherwise stand-out series.

Freed by el james