Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy by E. L. James

Synopsis: When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

My thoughts: O.K. I’ve finally read this book, but as everybody read it already or know the story, I won’t do the traditional and do my “synopsis” of the book. I read the trilogy firstly because of my friend that kept telling me that I should read it, that Christian Grey was a hot man and all and secondly because I was really curious to know what was all the fuss about. I’m going to write about the three books here.

                When I was reading the first book, what really caught my eyes was the plot. The whole BDSM scenario was very unique and gave space for women to talk freely about what they liked in bed and so. But the bad language of Mr. Grey and the stupidity of Ana really got on my nerves! How can she trust a man that tracks her down wherever she is, controls her and she just goes with the flow?! “Obviously because he is rich and beautiful and a god in bed.” PLEASE! I had to stand the whole reading until I finally got used to the bad language. If he wasn’t rich, would you at least look at him? The only part that I agree is with the bed part. He really seems to nail that down. The end was quite surprising because I didn’t think that Ana would do what she did, but SHE ASKED HIM TO DO IT! For god’s sake, if he told her that it was better not, and he’s a pro in it, then LEAVE IT ALONE!

                The second book, I wanted to slap Ana across the face. She COULDN’T stay two pages without telling that she loved him and would give her life for him. OKAY, I get it, next! I grew very tired of all that thing. What really liked was that we finally understood why Christian was like that: his past was very dark, twisted and quite sick, in my opinion. Imagine his mom when screwing with other women?! That explains why he goes to the therapist A LOT. He gets cute in that one. That was the beginning of me liking the character.

                Last, but not least, the last book. I’ll have to admit it: I JUST COULDN’T FINISH. There I said it. She is just so dump that I just couldn’t read it, despite the fact that Christian was becoming cuter and cuter. My friend wanted to kill me. (LOL) What made me give up: the fact the book had to be ENHANCED in other languages in order to be sold in book shops. I met a Brazilian girl that told me that she could read it in English perfectly despite the fact that she has a very Basic knowledge in the language. I was like “WHAT?!” Then I found out – actually it was in the middle of the first book – that the author made the book based in the Twilight series. Ok, I liked the series, but couldn’t she be a little more authentic?!? The only thing authentic in that s*** was the plot about mature content!

                Well, I have to say that I’m kind of disappointed with all that. I mean, there are SO many great books all around the globe, but only this kind of novels get to the level of becoming movies. I REALLY hope that they make a good movie. It’s the least they can do right now. Let’s pray that they choose a good screenwriter and cast to make it at LEAST worth it.

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Irish Hearts by Nora Roberts

Synopsis: Adelia Cunnane. Her hot temper sent the heart of Travis Grant aflame. Now the proud, powerful owner of Royal Meadows horse farm resolved to make this wild Irish Thoroughbred his own.

Erin McKinnon. A bold beauty, she accepted Burke Logan's loveless proposal and his cool promise of security and wealth. But could this ravishing Irish Rose win her hard-hearted husband's love?

My thoughts: First of all, I would like to apologize to any Irish person that reads this – who knows right? – because I believe that the Irish aren’t such airheads like the main characters when is about wealth and beautiful things. Ireland is a BEAUTIFUL place and my dream is to visit there someday to see all those view I can only see through Google Maps. Anyway, back to the book.

                There are two novels in this romance.

The first one - Irish Thoroughbred - is about Adelia Cunnane, a simple countryside girl that lost her farm and goes to America to live with her uncle and only relative Paddy. He works in a farm owned by Travis Grant, a handsome horse-lover man. Their first encounter is at night – that´s not what you are thinking folks – when Adelia went to the stables to check on the horses – she started to work there once she arrived – and he saw her and thought she was a boy. Because of her short-temper and her delicate figure, he falls in love at first sight for her, and at first she thinks that he’s hot but that’s all. As the reading goes, there are some heated kisses here and there and you keep hoping that they will advance from that, but nothing happens. It was really frustrating, I have to admit. Then they get married, because he wanted her and vice-versa, but none of them would admit to themselves nor for each other. And when they FINALLY have their first night together… the book ends. Just like that.

Ok, not at first – there are, like, six more pages to end it – but it ends! I had such high hopes for the story and when finally something was about to happen… bleh, it ends and they live happily ever after. However, it was very well written and catching, otherwise I wouldn’t be so disappointed by the end of it.

The second was my favorite. We are presented to Erin McKinnon, a countryside girl as well and Adelia’s cousin. The protagonist’s dream is to leave her village once and for all, to go to Dublin, find a job and live there, but who would have thought that her cousin’s visit to Ireland would bring such a surprise by the name of Burke Logan? Even though I didn’t really like his first name, I really like the character. He’s in his thirties and she has eighteen (fine… yeah, right), but her ambition and dreams light Burke’s heart that he thought would never light again due to his past, and he proposes to her that she moves to America to work as his bookkeeper – an excuse to have her close to him. Obviously, she goes with him and stays at her cousin’s, that borders with Logan’s farm. She starts to work for him and there are a lot of cute, embarrassing and funny moments through the reading. He has a sort of ironic humor and he keeps teasing her, and she falls harder and harder for him. This one was a little more exciting because they SLEEP together – yes, people, FINALLY! – and because of that, Burke offers her to marry him in order to be safe and have anything that she wants – but what he truly wanted was to have her with him because he couldn’t stand the thought of having her with someone else. However, nothing comes that easy, and Erin will soon find out that her husband has a very painful past and due to that he doesn’t allow himself to love again, even though she shows him – almost every day during their marriage beginning – that she loves him endlessly.

Well, as I said before, I loved the second rather than the first one. Irish Rose – second novel – is sweet with more story and a little bit of suspense, comedy, lots of romance and more action than the first one. At least this one doesn’t end right after their first night!! This is my first Nora Roberts novel, and as far as I can tell, even though she has a great ability to capture the reader and writes excellently, her characters are “programmed”, so to speak, to be what the readers expects them to be, and especially if her audience is female – which is – the romance is made to make you identify with the main character, so It can become quite clichéd. I recommend them as a pastime reading, not something that needs your meditation “24/7”, so to speak. It’s a very pleasant reading nonetheless. J

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