Fifty Shades of Disappointment

By now I'm sure most of you have heard of the newest, hottest book that seems to be making the rounds and has been dubbed "mommy p*rn" (btw I hate that). Yes I'm talking about Fifty Shades of Grey. Well I finally finished reading the first book of the series the other day and wanted to give my review since unlike most people I didn't really like it. *Gasp*!

First I should say this is the first real book I've read since having Hunter. Obviously I don't have much time for reading nowadays. Hell it takes me 4 days to read my Us Weekly's. But I downloaded it on my Kindle and would read while I pumped at work or at home. So having to read in little 15 minute increments here and there was a bit tough.

Anyways, back to the point, yeah not so in love with this book. For those that don't know, it's apparently some fan fiction based loosely off of Twilight and you can definitely see the similarities between the characters- an impossibly handsome, super rich, kinda dark and mysterious guy falls for an average looking, clumsy, naive, innocent girl and pulls her into his dark and twisty lifestyle. Only instead of vampires it's kinky sex.

First let's start with the sex, which let's be honest is the reason why I most people read this book. In the beginning I admit it's kinda hot but there are SO many sex scenes that towards the end I just started skimming them because they were not only redundant but unrealistic in my opinion. I was like "Really? They are doing it again?" Pretty much anytime they are in the same room with each other they have to be humping. And maybe I'm weird but the thought of having sex that many times in one day just sounds painful.

It was also incredibly unrealistic to me that this 21 year old *spoiler alert* virgin whose never even touched herself would suddenly give it up after only knowing this guy for a few days and not only that but be willing to do some of the stuff that he's into all because he's super good looking.

I also couldn't root for the couple. The main guy, Christian (love the name btw), is a super controlling, jealous, abusive, creepy, stalker with enough emotional baggage to fill an airport. So what if he's rich and good looking? And Ana is just irritating (if she mentioned her inner goddess one more time I was gonna lose it). Basically all the characteristics that I hated about Edward and Bella in Twilight these two possessed.

And finally the writing itself is just terrible and redundant. Ana says the same few expressions throughout the book and there just didn't seem to be much of a story other than all the sex.

I should say, it wasn't the worst book I've read and there were some parts I enjoyed and that kept my attention but I just don't see why people love this book so much and root for this couple? I heard that books 2 and 3 are much better so I was tempted to read them anyway but I don't want to waste what little reading time I have if it's just more of the same.

So tell me...have you read this book? Did you like it? Am I missing something about why this is so great?