Couldn't help it. Couldn't NOT begin reading this book the second that I finished Fifty Shades of Grey. Couldn't put it down. 
 So, for all that I'm tempted to roll my eyes (don't tell Christian!), smirk (uh-oh), and bite my lip (yikes) while reading it, I can't truly make too much fun of Fifty Shades Darker or the trilogy as a whole. 
 Steamy and captivating -- yet on the whole rather unbelievable -- I did like that Fifty Shades Darker explored more of Christian's background and gave greater depth and pathos to his "fifty shades of f*cked-up-ness", as they put it. There's something quite compelling about these characters, and I'm just completely hooked. 
 Sure, I could quibble. Certainly, a billionaire CEO would have better e-mail protocols. Surely he wouldn't leave quite so much... um... documentation of his personal life so easily accessible. Of course all he needed was the love of a good woman to fix what years of therapy couldn't. And sure, a newly-graduated 21-year-old in this day and age would a) be anyone's choice to run a company or b) even contemplate marriage, despite being desperately in love. 
 But I digress. It's the mood of these books, rather than the plot details, that's so engrossing. There's no way I'll stop until I finish them all.