This book is to be read more for the character development than the actual writing. Granted, to actually get to the character development, you must suspend belief enough to allow that a 22 year old woman in today's world has (view spoiler)[never 1. had sex (reasonable), 2. self-loved (much harder to believe) and 3. apparently has never had ANY sexual urges whatsoever toward any man, real or imagined (Pfft. (hide spoiler)]) But I forged ahead, willing to believe in the recommendation I received for reading this book---despite the typos, poor grammar, poor sentence structure and repeating dialogue. 
 Granted, after the 3rd guy that threw himself at Ana's feet, I was a bit disgruntled. Really, if no one is immune to her naive charms how the hell did she keep her virginity intact? And how in today's economy did Christian build up this empire in such a short amount of time? I half expected the big reveal to be that he was actually 104 years old and a vampire from Forks, Washington. 
 However, this did not happen and I read far enough into the books to get invested into the characters. To be perfectly honest, one character: Christian. Perhaps, he appealed to the thing deep inside me to want to "fix" a broken soul. Perhaps, I was romanced by the idea of a man wanting to protect me at any costs and give me my heart's desire if I only said "Yes" to his controlling man ways. Perhaps I was seduced by the descriptions of hot sex. Whatever it was, I fell in love and finished the series. 
 And thanked my friend for the recommendation.