I'm the kind of girl who downloads the Amazon Kindle app (note: doesn't actually buy a Kindle) and only reads the free "classics" in a vain attempt to seem edified. Really, I just really like free stuff and I'll snap if up wherever I can get. So when my friend, knowing my affinity for the Twilight books (Team Edward all the way) suggested that I read 50 Shades of Grey, I was skeptical. $9.99? For an e-book? Highway robbery!! I could read the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for FREE.
Yet one night, after a few glasses of wine, I found myself hitting that download button. In just 20 minutes, I was hooked. If you're unfamiliar with 50 Shades, a word of background: young, new college grad Anastastia Steele meets the incredibly successful and incredibly wealthy 27-year-old Christian Grey, falls under his spell and finds out that he has interesting...um... preferences. Three books worth of "preferences."
This book made me uncomfortable. My cheeks actually blushed while I was reading it. Whenever I was reading it on the Metro, I actually shielded my iPhone from everyone around me in case they could see what I was reading. I was fairly certain that every nun who ever taught me in Catholic school somehow KNEW I was reading it and that they were all making mental notes to pray to Jesus for the salvation of my soul. Yet, I could not put this (e)book down!
Maybe its because it was near the end of Lent, and having gone 35 days without chips and salsa was slowly killing me, or maybe it really was that 50 Shades of Grey is a really good junk read. Either way, it's definitely worth the $9.99.
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