I think this is probably the weakest book from the series. There were still plenty of sex scenes, but it really deviated away from the BDSM that was such a big focus on the first book. I really enjoyed the first book, and I can appreciate how the second and third book focused on the relationship between Ana and Christian improving and moving away from that sort of thing. But really I was kind of bummed out to find less and less of it as I read on. There was also a lot of drama added into the book in between the sex parts. It almost seemed like E.L. James didn't really know what dramatic plot points she wanted to focus on, so she just went ahead and threw them all in there. Not my favorite in the series, but not as bad of a series overall like I thought it was going to be.