Fifty Shades Freed ajnfkf Oh God why am I still reading this??!!!

What a treat this book was. We get to experience their dreamy wedding, including a totally inappropriate scene in front of the minister and all their wedding guests, in a series of flashbacks. They are on a dream honeymoon and already Anastasia is afraid of her husband’s temper. It’s never a good sign in a relationship if you are afraid of your partner or have to walk on eggshells around them. But it’s alright. He has lots of money and is super beautiful and perfect, as we are reminded yet again on every single page, so as always with her, it’s fine! He’s just damaged! Her damaged dark little fifty. Ugh. Where’s a shotgun when you need one?

The descriptions of her subconscious and inner goddess and what they are doing get oddly more specific with each book, to the point where it’s just bizarre and annoying. Her subconscious at one point looked up from reading ‘The Complete works of Charles Dickens’, to give Anastasia an admonishing look no doubt. It’s not cute anymore. I usually have to put the book down after reading one of these gems and take a deep breath before I throw it. Oh, and her Inner Goddess reads Jackie Collins, in case you were wondering.

In all three books now we are treated with the ‘No you hang up!’ barf fest.

Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy. It’s like all these two know is sex and jealousy. Every woman is jonesing after Christian all the time. And it’s ok for him to get so irrationally possessive he buys her company, but if she shows a hint of jealousy with him, it’s all *Tsk-tsk*.

It is never romantic when your husband says he really wants to beat you. He says that lovely line after someone broke into her home. Victim blaming, anyone? I don’t care if he is mad, which is totally misplaced most of the time. All of the time actually. He gets angry because she disobeys orders. He gets angry if she has a disagreeing opinion. He gets angry cause she wants to work.  On top of that, she has to ask his permission to do anything. To go to work, to drive her car, to see her friend, to have fun. She is a grown woman. Does she know this is not how marriage works? That this isn’t the 18^th century anymore? And can I just say wow, at his reaction when she tells him she’s pregnant. I’m surprised she didn’t divorce him right then and there. But then again, she is always making excuses for his atrocious behavior. This relationship disgusts me.

Once again, the plot is more of an afterthought, which I should have known better by now. It takes forever to get there, and when it does, it’s so stupid it’s laughable. And then all is well in Ana and Christian Land and they live happily ever after and we have to read a terrible epilogue anyways, filled with pregnant sex. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse. I knew I should have stopped reading at the end of the book. And then we are treated to this delightful little nugget: “I think she likes sex already.” Yup. That’s them talking about their unborn child right after they had pregnant sex.

You are welcome everybody.

Now I need to go read something good, or at least marginally better to get the taste this awful book left in my mouth.