One of the best things about Jennifer's recaps is that she is as appalled by Ana's treatment of other women as much as I am. In this case, her roommate Kate, whom she remembers as soon as she wakes up after popping her cherry with Christian the night before:

I like how Ana's judgmental programs are online from the moment her feet hit the ground. ( Read more... )

I found my newest 50 Shades of Grey love! Jennifer Armintrout has taken to a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of 50 Shades of Grey, Cleolinda-style. It's so funny I almost threw up laughing last night. It makes me kinda sad, because originally I wanted to write a chapter-by-chapter (starting with 50 Shades Darker), but she's doing a much better job than ( Read more... )

I've hated a lot of literary characters in my life. Some of them were villains, exquisitely portrayed so that I shared in the antagonist's plight. Some of them were one-dimensional, mostly secondary characters, that I had my own reasons for detesting. Finally, a select few were blatant racial stereotypes that I loathe on principal and abhor in ( Read more... )

Well, I'll be a primate's oncle. There are scads of e-books mocking Fifty Shades of Grey already. More than I've seen of Harry Potter and Twilight put together. Let's take a look!

I decided that I'd shuffled the papers enough so I fumbled them for a few moments. Then, after I'd given myself my tenth paper cut, I decided to pick them up. They were ( Read more... )

I have always been turned on by sadistic, controlling, possessive and emotionless men (which is why I gave this ludicrous book half a chance). But this has nothing to do with the fact that the writing is abominable. Trite, repetitive and mind-numbingly lacking in originality, the characters impossibly soulless, and the author, whose heroine applies ( Read more... )