Grey - E.L.James

Title: Grey
Author: E.L.James
Publisher: Vintage
*This book has also been reviewed by me on Goodreads*
FOUR VERY BIAS STARS

It is safe to say that in the four years E.L.James has been in the spotlight, she has NOT picked up a creative writing course. It's frustrating for me to note that even after the tremendous success of The Fifty Shades Trilogy, this woman gives so little cares for her inability to write. While I was more open with my hatred for the absolute lack of literary style in the Trilogy, here I simply can't look away: everyone knew that this book would go straight up on the bestsellers list. It's a joke that even after years of being a bestselling author and having a publishing house on your back with skilled editors, the end result is still a pile of garbage.
Putting aside the fact that the book is written in present tense - something that causes my poor soul to cry, Erika James obviously has no idea how to form a complex or compound sentence. I will take the liberty of adding a lesson from the great people at English 1001 for her sake. Using more than one verb and commas is not hard, Ms. James. Perhaps, you should try it once.
For someone with millions of dollars and a publishing house that just dies to get more of her mediocre at best writing, it's an insult to the readers to not even try to write a better book as compared to the published Fanfiction that was Fifty Shades/Master of the Universe.
Oh, I also found a typo about 70% into the book. It said "moue" as opposed to "move."
Now, Christian's POV. Something every fan of the series wants to read, but shouldn't spend money on. Now, see it's the absolutely same! Apparently Christian and Ana even think the same! I'm honestly disappointed that she painted Christian like a complete chode. When he wasn't with Ana he was dealing with some business-related issue that had nothing do do with the story. Maybe more pages of the book would raise its sales? I don't know.
"Vagina," "vulva," "penis," "labia." This is the jargon used by the author of the most erotic book on the market today. My Biology textbook was just as sexy as Grey. Oh, hmmm...

Open breaks here. The cover is terrible. Close breaks.

Now to the big question: why did I have so many issues with this book and still rate it four stars. See, this is the thing with Fifty Shades: it's not about the intercourse in which the penis enters the vagina. It's not about Erika James' writing and if definitely is not because I want to spend money reading the same plot I read four years ago. It's because despite all of this, E.L. James is a woman with great imagination that created a beautiful romantic story about two people who grew up together and let go of whatever it was holding them back. It's a story with great character development and such intense story line, it makes you forget just how bad it was written.

And you know what? I'm going to buy the rest of the books, just like I would buy everything that woman writes. Why? Because she writes as she feels it. Bad, but with feeling. And a lot of authors these days lack feeling.


Buy a dictionary with the money I spent on your book, Erika. Toodles.

Links:
Grey on Goodreads
E.L.James on Goodreads
Grey on Amazon.com