Critics have savaged EL James’s rewrite of her erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey, with one calling the writing “bad throughout” and another accusing it of “rapturous self-regard”.
Grey re-tells the events of James’s 2011 original from the perspective of its antagonist, Christian Grey.
The book, writes the Evening Standard’s David Sexton, “loyally repeats every line [and] every excruciating email”.
According to the Telegraph, the result is “as sexy as a misery memoir”. James’s original told of the steamy relationship between Grey, a millionaire businessmen with an interest in bondage and sadism, and literature student Anastasia Steele from the latter’s perspective.
According to the author, “thousands of readers” had requested to hear Christian’s point of view since the book’s publication.
