I liked the fact that the heroine had money and social standing of her own.

The hero’s implausible sexual stamina aside, they weren’t bad. This time I got through all four and I really enjoyed them.

I was about to donate the books to the local charity shop a few weeks back (whether that is a good thing for the charity shop or not, I wouldn’t know) when I spotted them waiting by the door and thought I’d give them another bash. I attempted to read these last year but couldn’t get past the second book. The closest to the Grey Trilogy I would say. I have also read the latest book, Grey, and seen the movie (dreadful as it was). Not fantastically written and Christian’s behaviour was beyond the pale a few times, but I read all four and I enjoyed them. I am one of the people who could never get into Lord of the Rings so I am rather pleased about that!įifty Shades of Grey Trilogy by E.L.

The contemporary book club tends to have two favourites genres – detective novels and erotic novels! Science fiction is not too popular and neither is fantasy. And reading the classics often goes much more slowly because the vocabulary can be very archaic. If they start to speak like characters from Dickens or Jane Austen it sounds too stilted and formal. I tend to find the language in the contemporary books more relevant for people who want it to help their speaking. I run two book clubs for my students – one for the classics (current favourite with them is Middlemarch by George Eliot) and one for contemporary books. Which is interesting but does involve a lot of repetition. Just what you want when you are tired after a long day and need a happy ending to something in your life! The literary equivalent of a big juicy doughnut!Īt least four of these series have one book written from the female protagonist’s point of view, and one written from the male protagonist’s point of view. Reminds me of when I used to read photo comics, comics and Mills and Boon romances under my sheets because my parents would not allow me to read ‘junk’. Just the thing to sit and read outside by the lake. BUT having said that, I really enjoyed almost all of them, and they did not require energy or concentration. I suppose editors and sub-editors are a thing of the past these days. Some of the errors are really basic so a good editor would have sorted most of them. None of these authors will be relevant a hundred years from now, none of them are epic writers (though Sylvia Day is pretty good) and if you read the e-books (as I did with all except two of the Crossfire series), they are riddled with grammar and spelling errors which are extremely annoying.

Books like 50 shades of grey but better