The first couple of chapters made it seem like the story was going somewhere... But then it comes to halt. It doesn't start picking up again till the end. The characters are also lacking in depth but near the end, you'll find that Christian Grey is slightly more interesting as it is revealed that he had an abusive upbringing. 
 Dialogue sucked for the most part. I was also sick of the repetitive use of words such as "oh my, inner goddess, hitches, there" (I wanted to throw my laptop at the wall every time those words appeared - so after every other page) and random use of vocabulary that no one ever uses in an actual conversation (i.e. Mercurial, beguile, and other really random words). 
 As for the sex scenes, they were kind of disappointing. They lacked any erotic elements. They weren't even believable... 
 I did enjoy reading Ana and Christian's email exchanges, they were kind of cute. I also quite liked the ending and the first couple of chapters. But it felt like I was reading about two kinky teenagers rather than a story about an aspiring publisher and businessman and their sexual exploits. 
 Overall, the book was poorly executed (worse than twilight!). I felt like the book had the potential to be way better. Edits to the dialogue and vocabulary would've made an ENORMOUS difference. 
 With that being said, I couldn't put the book down (it's so bad... It's good?), hence the two stars (which it probably doesn't deserve).