I’d be quite willing to take care of Mrs Robinson and Jose and Ethan and Leila myself if it meant I could live happily ever after with Christian and Ana. If ever there were a couple to root for, this would be it. Christian is like an excitable puppy that you just want to hug (outside the lipstick line of course). It’s still seriously hot and steamy and the sort you might not want to get stuck into in a public place where people can look over your shoulder, but for such a dark book, it’s also unbelievably adorable. The sex doesn’t seem quite so outrageous this time around, either because Ana seems to be a more willing participant by this point, or simply because overexposure has limited the shock factor. It’s perhaps deeper emotionally, but the physical stuff is really just more of the same plus or minus a few butt plugs, anal beads and nipple clamps.
But for a series that started with a book already quite dark, some readers may feel reassured by the knowledge that it’s not much ‘worse’ than the first one.
With a title like this, you might be expecting this second book to be a, well, darker version of the first one and in some ways it is. Craving things that, let’s be honest, a massive number of readers probably quite fancy themselves after the literary foreplay that was book 1. Craving things she’s aware nice girls wouldn’t…unless it’s all one big unspoken secret in the sisterhood. Craving things she didn’t know were possible a month or so ago. With what were increasingly becoming her regular nocturnal activities now off limits, she’s started craving them. And he still has, let’s say, particular preferences when it comes to his bedroom antics.
He’s still incapable of letting her get on with things without interfering (you’ve got to love a guy who buys the company you work at, just to keep an eye on things). They’re not having quite as much dirty sex as they were but the tensions are still there. At the same time, a lot has stayed the same. Successful businessman Christian is still our tortured hero and Ana, now in her first proper job, remains our befuddled heroine but they’re not Christian-and-Ana any more having parted ways at the end of book one. Perhaps unusually for a follow up it’s not months or years later, in fact just a few days have gone by.
Not a lot of time has passed since the first instalment of Ana’s adventures with the man she calls Fifty Shades. Summary: What Christian and Ana did next, this is just as satisfying as the now iconic first book, but with some brilliant extra plot twists outside the bedroom.
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