In the 3rd and final book of the controversial bestselling trilogy, Ana and Christian are dealing with conventional problems in their new found marriage and scary threats by some mysterious criminal.

After the first two books predominantly dealt with hardcore sexual practices, this book shows way more character with a lot more real story being told.

It seems like a typical Cinderella’s tale became true for Anastasia Steele. After meeting Christian Grey, the wealthiest of all wealthy and finding out that his feelings for her are true and from invaluable worth, her life suddenly changes. After the wedding she moves in with Christian and spends a wonderful honeymoon with her husband. But as soon as they’re back home, old problems seem to have been waiting for their return. Anastasia is being threatened by her ex-boss; girls from former “relationships” of Christian try to destroy their peace and last but not least their apartment was broken into.

I started reading this series because everyone was talking about it as well as everyone was crucifying it. Let’s say I was curious.

I like the fact that you, the reader, get a pretty good insight in Christian’s past and the reason why he has become the man he now is. Even if he still tries to hide his worries from Ana she finds a way to deal with the peculiarities of her husband.

Even though he still is dominant and quite frightening Ana falls more and more in love with Christian and dares to defend and fight back.

All in all I think this book is a nice mixture of the erotic novel it shall be, a typical romance and part wise almost a criminalistics adventure book. I know that a lot of people couldn’t find much sympathy for this trilogy and the topic it mainly deals with. But for an in between novel I found these books quite readable and entertaining. Even though I didn’t have any problems with the author’s style I still can understand the critics. Sometimes the way those typical scenes are being told seems a bit washed out and stereotypical for those kind of novels. Nevertheless this book deserves 3 stars.