When I read this book for a first time, I had no clue about BDSM. I didn't know anything about the lifestyle and certainly I didn't know there are fiction books that are touching it and love stories that are based on it. In a way I was like Ana. I was waiting to read what the damn contract was saying in order to understand what Christian expected. 
 Well, after reading lots of fictional love stories and books that mention BDSM, I have realised that this book does not treat this subject and this lifestyle with respect and in the end it leaves a distorted picture about it. 
 On the other hand it is a great mainstream book. If you expect nothing more from it than a really good love story about two very different people that they eventually find a common route and they have their happy ending, then you will not be disappointed. 
 I know I was not disappointed even the second time I read it and certainly not disappointed the first.