Fifty Shades Freed

Book Three of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

By: E. L. James

Narrated by: Becca Battoe

Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

Look for E L James’s passionate new love story, The Mister, available now.

When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees. Now, Ana and Christian have it all—love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of possibilities for their future. But Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate.

Ana must somehow learn to share Christian’s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own identity. And Christian must overcome his compulsion to control as he wrestles with the demons of a tormented past. Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana’s deepest fears turn to reality.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

©2012 E.L. James (P)2012 Random House

Critic reviews

"In a class by itself." ( Entertainment Weekly)

The best of the three!!!

This book was by far the best of the trilogy. (spoiler alert) - I was glad there was a happy ending...and by happy ending, I mean REALLY HAPPY ending. After all the termoil all they needed was each other!

Sorry it had to end, but glad it ended the way it did!!

why was she hired?

I loved the story but good God, who picked this narrator??? She is just awful! She made it darn near impossible to finish the book. I finally ended up just buying a copy and reading it myself. Andi Arndt would have been a much better choice. Do yourself a favor and save your ears, just read the book. Looking forward to Freed in Christian's POV. Hopefully she keeps the same narrator for that; Zachary Webber is perfection.

Loved it!!!

Such a great love story! I’ll continue reading spin offs!!! This is by far my favorite series!

Wasn’t a fan of narrator

I love the story line. Can do without all the explicit scenes and the narrator was just annoying to me. But I love the story line of these books.

A real page turner

Readers are superior.I have listened to it many times.very erotic and a good story .I loved it

The Romance

I love how strong willed Ana was, and that she never signed Chri÷tians contract. Great music also!

More to come?

Lots of answers and questions about Christian's past. Hope there is more to come with more answers.

Suspense! Romance!

Romance, adventure, intrigue, and mystery laced with erotic episodes makes this novel sublime. It was worth listening to and should be heard again.

And Everyone Grows up!

Where does Fifty Shades Freed rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Captivating. The story held my attention - if for no other reason than to figure out what was gonna happen next! It's not a master work of prose, and is based in a world few have any frame of reference to relate to - that of the opulently rich, with more money than brains. But the characters are easy themselves to relate to, and sympathize with - flawed, insecure, occasionally clumsy, with inner demons chasing them, in need of being slapped occasionally!
And despite all that, Ana and Christian manage to work it out!

Who was your favorite character and why?

I'm a sucker for tragic flawed Alpha-Males - so duh.... but I found Ana's Inner Goddess a particular joy when she appeared!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

For Consenting Adults Only!!!

Any additional comments?

The third of the series focuses more on dramatic ways for our tragic male, Christian, and our budding heroine, Ana, to work through their own personal demons and their made-in-fairyland but not perfect relationship into a HEA.
Ana finally finds her inner B***H, and takes a definitive stand, which rattles Christian to the core and starts his pattern of growth. The roller coaster continues as life, stacked full of unfortunate and somewhat predictable circumstances, force our beloved Christian to face his demons and grow up. Ana, too, finds herself letting go of some of her juvenile, impulsive pettyness and insecurities and blossoms.

This is a fairytale - full of teen angst and wrapped up in some steamy "vanilla" and not-so-vanilla sex. It's easy to relate to the clumsy insecure heroine and drool after the perfectly flawed Adonis - almost as easy as it is to lose track of the real story here - of 2 people who did connect and helped each other grow up. The prose is choppy occasionally, the ending felt rushed, and the reader was... well - could have used more definition and intonation in her delivery. But I did enjoy the story, and series.
It’s for consenting adults only!

Loved this book!

After watching the movie I was dying to read the series and I was not disappointed! Loved the suspense and that this book kind of died down on the sex. The fact that there was a real story line and consistency really kept me interested!