Next to him and his helicopter, Ana tends to fade into the background. This kind of makes sense – whether you love him or want to set him on fire, you have to admit that Christian is what really draws people into the series. Looks like I’ll be here a while… (image: )īut most of the hype around the series focused on its hero – the dark, brooding sexpot that is Christian Grey. At the height of the series’ popularity it spawned enough merchandise to sink a ship, and it wasn’t all sex toys – you can still buy Fifty Shades baby clothes, although presumably you’re going to have to wait until you’ve stopped vomiting before you hand over your credit card. You don’t have to go too far to find an article about how Fifty Shades is a new kind of feminism, gave women permission to enjoy sex, and probably did the washing-up on its way out. James is rewriting the entire trilogy from her rapey hero’s point of view. You just couldn’t get away from it – and in fact it’s still pretty tricky to escape it, because E.L. James’s pre-exisiting Twilight fan base and lots of explicit sex. The story was nothing new – ‘innocent young virgin meets broody hottie with dark secret’ is not exactly original – but for some reason this trilogy completely dominated bookshops for a solid three years.
Fifty Shades of Grey has been credited with bringing erotica into the mainstream, making BDSM cool, revitalising the publishing industry and spicing up millions of marriages. This series was absolutely everywhere and it’s still refusing to die. The series started out as Twilight fanfiction, but a hop, skip and a quick name change later, Anastasia – or Ana Bella, as she’s more widely known – was thrust (heh heh) into the public consciousness. I could go into more detail but that’s pretty much all the plot there is. Anastasia Steele is the heroine of the Fifty Shades trilogy, a series of books about an innocent young woman who falls in love with a billionaire who likes BDSM. I’m sure you’ve all heard of her by now, but for those in the cheap seats here’s a quick recap. I feel like I’m going to get a lot of use out of this gif.
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