A fanfic-fantasy put on paper. 
 Fifty shades is about the young/ naive/ inexperienced Ana Steele and the sexy/ domineering/ controlling/ stalkerish Christian Gray. After their meeting during a university paper interview they find themselves attracted to each other and start a "sort of relationship" with Christian's taste for BDSM squarely in the foreground. 
 Much has been said about 50 shades and throughout reading this book i've vigorously tried to ignore all of it. This all specifically to form my own independent opinion, unbiased by outside influence. And in the end all i really have to say is, that its really not that good, or just downright bad. For a romance i didn't think it was that romantic (or erotic for that matter), the characters weren't likable and the story was hampered with a notable lack of chemistry between those characters. In addition i quickly felt myself become disinterested in the character and the story. A notion that was only compounded by the fact that the story was littered with a plethora of barely concealed thorpe's that both annoyed and made the story rather predictably. 
 In the end i can't recommend 50 shades to anyone other than those who want to know what all the fuzz was about. (And even then only the first 50 pages or so should be enough....)