books to read if you like 50 shades of grey

Grey as a novel reads at an elementary school level outside of Grey’s dreams told from the point of view of toddler-aged Grey, the novel is simplistic at best, with instances of word misuse and extremely vague description.

Steele consumes his thoughts and fantasies before, during, and after their one-month, whirlwind relationship, and the novel ends when he commits to winning her back. Grey unintentionally shows stunted emotional growth and vents his frustrations with his subconscious self through “performative punishment” acts he shows no emotional attachment to and of the women who agree to be his “submissives” until he meets and become infatuated with Anastacia Steele. The reader is told that Grey uses the “discipline” aspects of BDSM culture as a coping mechanism for the physical and psychological abuse he suffered as a child, between the ages of 3 and 4.

Grey is an erotic novel with aspects of romance that delves into a topical display of the BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism) lifestyle.Īs a result of Grey only being told from Christian Grey’s point of view, the reader gets a strong sense of Grey’s past and his personal perspective via flashbacks, dreams, nightmares, and a constant internal monologue.

James, from Christian Grey’s point of view rather than Anastacia Steele’s. Grey is the parallel narrative to the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L.

Books to read if you like 50 shades of grey