Changes

While the story moved on, some of the scenarios seemed to repeat themselves too frequently: the fights, the misunderstandings, his fear that she would leave, her reassurances that she wouldn’t. I was surprised she didn’t feel more suffocated by him, because though she expressed her irritation at times, she almost always backed down and agreed to his requests on everything from who was going to drive to whether or not she’d leave the office for lunch. Equally, Ana goes out of her way to provoke him at times. She begs for permission for things she knows he won’t be happy with, when any normal person would just do without asking and perhaps suffer the consequences later. It’s almost like she’s angling for an argument, winding him up as if she wants a punishment, which would be right up Christian’s sexual street after all. The detail entered into was minute and while I didn’t feel it at the time, on reflection it did seem to drag things out a bit when there were other issues that could have made for a more interesting discussion.

Thanks go to the publishers for supplying this book and putting way too many ideas in my head for my next date.