You may blush a bit while listening on the train....but this book won't let you down. I love when something lives up to the hype and this certainly does that. The only thing I don't like is that the characters exchange emails quite frequently throughout the book and if I were reading I would skip the, what felt like hundreds of times they; "To: Annastasia Steele From: Christian Grey Subject: (use your imagination) Date: June 12th Time: 10:48am" It gets really repetitive and somewhat annoying in the audiobook. Nevertheless 5 stars across the board.

Trite story line, poorly written. Nitwit girl awestruck by stereotypic mysterious wealthy control freak. "Romance" novel with kinky sex.

Nothing.

Book is incapable of salvage, in my opinion.

no, just because I cant stand the narrator

really with that woman reading it....I cant even remember.

EVERYTHING!

neither

These books should really be done over with a better narrator...She ruined the book!

This novel was trash. I am not offended or scandalized by sex. It was the writing that offended me. Using the same words over and over and over and over again. Sometimes in concurrent sentences. The narration was pitiful--a whiney airheaded voice. Not that she had much material to work with.

I think this book might be enjoyed by anyone who can overlook the horrible writing. I read the reviews before downloading this, and thought, "The haters are just literary snobs, or prudes." Nope. It's just that bad.

The bad writing. I wasn't expecting a literary masterpiece, but come on! Every other phrase is, "Oh, my!" or "Holy (insert random expletive)!" And, did she really use medulla oblongata...more than once? I swear if something jolted her from her "reverie" one more time I was going to scream. The protagonist is irritating and moronic. There's innocent and then there's idiotic. I've never read fanfiction before and thanks to this, I never will again. Please save your credit. You have been warned.

No. Christian sounded like Ana imitating a man. Aside from that, I can't fault her. She's horrible, but I blame the source material. There's nothing she could have done differently, aside from turning down this job.

Not. A. One.

I nearly gave up on this book. Narrator's voice makes you want to slap Ana even more than you would normally. I found myself rolling my eyes quite often. Narrator and writing totally separate things of course. How many times could someone hear/read "Holy ___," "Oh my," or "my inner goddess?" Make it stop, please!

I find myself wanting to attempt the second book just to see how their relationship changes but that will likely be a few books from now and maybe not in audio. I need a break from the voice and holy craps.

No.

The story starts off a little slow and repeats several phrases over and over. But overall it's erotic.

I paid for this. Reader was awful, but since there was no story it didn't matter.

Everything

Never.

All.

It should be banned!!!

I devoured this series! It has been a very long time since I actually could not put down an audiobook, and I lost sleep listening to this one. Suggestion: If you are planning on listening to the first novel, make REALLY sure that you have the second one ready to download!

I finally got used to the narrator about halfway through the first book. While I am not crazy about her male voices, I can deal because she is a female. What I can't quite get past is the abnoxious valley girl accent she gives Anastasia. Her character is shy but compasionate and Ms. Batoe makes her sound snotty and rude most of the time. I did not read the books prior to listening to them so I had no preconcieved notions of how the charaters should sound, but I agree with most that the narrator could be better. She is definitely not the worst that I have heard and did not take away my interest in continuing to listen.

If you are not a fan of explicit scenes in a book...don't even pick this up. There is a LOT of XXX in here but I found myself focusing on what would happen in the storyline more.

I would highly reccommend this to anyone who wants a good jaw-dropping story :)

I purchased this book because of all of the hype and was badly disappointed. Honestly, the premise seemed to me to be a lot like the Twilight stories. Other than the 'porn parts' the story seemed directed to the 12 to 14 yr old girl set. I found the heroine to be completely and totally unrealistic. I mean seriously, a normal, healthy, attractive female of 22+ years - recent college graduate and she had absolutely zero sexual experience.
The narration sounded more mature than the first narrator but only slightly. I would have guessed that the main character was 13 to 16 years old from the dialog and her general demeanor. I will not be purchasing the other two books in the series.