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Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian (Fifty Shades of Grey Series, 5) Paperback – November 28, 2017

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See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey—a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.

"Please don't bite your lip, Anastasia." My voice is low, full of longing. Will I always want her like this? I want to kiss her, press her into the elevator wall like I did during our first kiss. I want to make her mine again.

Their scorching, sensual affair ended in heartbreak and recrimination, but Christian Grey cannot get Anastasia Steele out of his mind, or his blood. Determined to win her back, he tries to suppress his darkest desires and his need for complete control, and to love Ana on her own terms.

But the horrors of his childhood still haunt him, and Ana's scheming boss, Jack Hyde, clearly wants her for himself. Can Christian's confidant and therapist, Dr. Flynn, help him face down his demons? Or will the possessiveness of Elena, his seducer, and the deranged devotion of Leila, his former submissive, drag Christian down into the past?

And if Christian does win Ana back, can a man so dark and damaged ever hope to keep her?

Discover the world of Fifty Shades of Grey:
  • An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
  • More than 165 Million Copies Sold Worldwide
  • One of 100 Great Reads in the Great American Read
  • 133 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List

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    Fifty Shades as Told by Christian
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E L Jamesis an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. She followed with the #1 New York Times bestseller The Mister in 2019. In 2021, she released the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestseller Freed, the third novel in the As Told by Christian trilogy. In 2023, she released The Missus, an instant USA Today and international bestseller. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.

E L James has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World and Publishers Weekly’s Person of the Year. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Darker was longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People’s Choice Award for Drama in 2018.

E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their beloved dogs in the leafy suburbs of West London.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloom Books (November 28, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0385543913
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0385543910
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.19 x 1.44 x 8 inches
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E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.

E L James has been recognised as one of Time magazine's ‘Most Influential People in the World’ and Publishers Weekly’s ‘Person of the Year’. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Darker has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

She co-produced for Universal Studios the Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third instalment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People’s Choice Award for Drama in 2018.

 

E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.

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During quarantine I have read (and listened to) all 5 books. And I declare since they have saved me this time, they filled my days with emotion and new - or old - feelings. I find it fascinating how it can so well describe romance for a woman and sensitivity for a man. My thanks to E L James because he saved me in this time of confinement, and the voices were also the best, well linked to the text and with a good dictionary to understand the meaning of some terms that are not familiar to me. Thank you very much
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Cindy Morgan
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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You get to really feel the mood, character, anxiety of Christian. I recommend the book to anyone who has read the iriginals
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Iza Loves Books
5.0 out of 5 stars I love being in Christian's head
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Well, I thought when I read the original Fifty Shades Trilogy, that nothing EL James came up with could top it. Then I read Grey, the first book from Christian’s POV and loved it. I’d always understood why Christian Grey was the way he is. Having had a less than ideal childhood myself, I could relate so much to how he felt and reacted.
I loved Grey, but Darker surpassed it. OMG, being in his head. It was painful seeing him as an angry man, who still had that frightened little boy within him, who couldn’t get close to anyone, who was so scared of being touched, he wouldn’t sleep with anyone, for fear they might touch him in their sleep, and his need to tie up women so they couldn’t put their hands on him during sex.
Watching him fall in love. Feeling so vulnerable and insecure because he’d never felt before, the way he feels for Ana. His fear of losing her. His self hatred and sadly not being able to see the good man he really was. I loved seeing him blossom under the gentle touch and love of Ana. I loved everything about this book. It was such an emotional read. I couldn’t get enough and hated it when I came to the end of this book. I can’t wait for the author to write Freed from his POV. Well, I hope she writes it. I can honestly say, that after having read the original trilogy 17 times, that the books from Christian’s POV are my favourites. I think for anyone who misjudged Christian and accused him of being a cold, arrogant man who was abusive towards women, they should really read the books from his POV. He is not cold or arrogant, or abusive. He is a man who had a horrific start to life, who learnt over the years to cope the only way he knew how. He unfortunately was introduced to sex by the wrong kind of person, but it taught him a way he could be in control, something so important to him. Something I understood because when you have no control as a child, you crave it as an adult.
Ana certainly turns Christian on his head. Everything that is familiar to him and helps him cope is gone, and yet, he takes to his new lifestyle so well. This is an incredible love story. It’s the love story between a damaged young man and the woman who comes into his life and loves him, flaws and all. Who slowly but surely shows him there is another way and who teaches him to love, and to start to at least like himself. I LOVED everything about Darker.
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charity bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024
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Love it can't wait to read it when I'm done with the other one.
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Deb Hanson
4.0 out of 5 stars Finally I got to it!
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Darker ( As told by Christian Grey)
E.L James
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So there’s really no spoilers in this review ( unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 8 years), I loved the Fifty Shades franchise from the very first book, but it has been a long time since I’ve enjoyed reading it again. Still it makes me happy. Fifty was the second book I had read even from at school, I think it was the story responsible for my deep love of reading now!

So we know the Christian and Ana story, this one was Christian’s POV, and although it opened a little more into his past and his future I kind it felt it was just a rewrite of the original story with a little more thrown in. Now I didn’t expect to see none of the story I just wanted more grit… his childhood, his thoughts each day, his work…. It was just a bit lacking in my opinion! But you can’t win em all, and it certainly won’t stop me reading Freed, I’m hanging for the Jack bit!!!!

Well, that’s it for me, I’m off to Amazon for Freed! Laters Baby
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Susan Fox
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
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I really enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Reading the story from Christians point of view explains in more detail why he is the way he is and makes you more a part of their story.
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Hopeful
5.0 out of 5 stars Critical Reviewers Chill!!!
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2017
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To all of the critical reviewers here, think please real hard here. Did you honestly expect James to write an entire new novel based from Christian's POV? Does anyone not realize all that this author gifted us with? 3 books with Ana's POV, two movies and the last to be given to us in February 2018 I believe, and if that's not enough, she's now giving us 3 MORE books from Christian's POV. Reviewers asked, begged and pleaded for MORE and she so graciously delivered. How could you really expect her to re-write such an incredible story? In Darker, James gave us every single conversation and thought we wondered about, his perspective in specific detail with conversations with Taylor, Leila at Ana's apartment, Dr. Flynn, detailed dreams of his awful abusive childhood, Elena and lets not forget with Grace when she finds out her best friend sexually abused her son at the young age of fifteen for YEARS!

Do you realize how difficult it is for James to come up with stuff? She had to mirror Ana's POV and dialogue otherwise we'd have a different story. She was so generous to gift us with all of this because many of us loved this couple so much and always will. Be grateful people.

Now, my opinion and I was not gifted a copy nor am I a friend of James' however, I love Christian after this read more so now than ever. He is so vulnerable in Darker, so lovable, so intelligent yet immature in other areas like a scared little boy. As a mother of five sons, James' words when Christian admits to himself wanting Grace his adoptive mother to hold him and when he realizes she really does love him, just beautiful and heartfelt as a mother of 5 sons. These are not womens words as someone wrote in there 1 or 2* review, claiming he sounds like a woman, this is a man's perspective and yes they do feel too, just because they're not all so emotional or forthcoming with their feelings or thoughts doesn't mean they don't have them and that some men or boys don't express them. Christian went through a lot as a child from birth to four, then through 15 years old he was angry, didn't speak for sometime after the adoption until Mia came into their home, let's not forget the brawls and being expelled from schools... Elena not only lures him into sex but she physically abuses him as well. His thoughts are not going to be of the normal man because let's face it, a normal man would not have been through what he has. Take him out of that category and please stop judging James so harshly. I, for one, am so grateful that she's gifted us with MORE, I hope it keeps coming. I'd love another book with their future including all of their children and Elliot and Kate's but I doubt we'll get it because, truthfully, writing what James does is not an easy trade.

$10 for the Kindle download, sorry but IMO it's worth it. I knew going in what we were getting...did you not read Grey? Same thing. I. Loved. It!!! All of the conversations I wondered about James gave us his words and thoughts. I especially love the words with Grace and Elena, I seriously would love to kick Elena's butt!!! If one of my friend's did that to one of my sons?! I won't even go there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fast shipping
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024
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Book came in good shape. Package was however completely ripped open, one books cover was bent. All items were there
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Nisa Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2024
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Barb Hdez
5.0 out of 5 stars Me llegó antes de lo esperado
Reviewed in Mexico on November 15, 2023
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En excelentes condiciones y me llegó 2 días antes de lo esperado!!! Ya casi tengo mi colección completa.
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Cristina Sias Veloso
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book.
Reviewed in Brazil on July 18, 2023
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This version is explanatory to the version “as told by Ana”. The feelings shared by both personages very well retracted.
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Peach
5.0 out of 5 stars INSPIEGABILE !
Reviewed in Italy on January 22, 2024
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BELLO, BELLO BELLO !
Ero scettica, non pensavo che l'autrice dopo 3 libri principali riuscisse a tenere alto l'interesse, considerando che le scene che vivono Ana e Christian sono uguali....invece è stupendo e non riesco a smettere di leggerli ! Il problema sarà quando arriverò alla fine del terzo e finirà. :D
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Reviewed in Germany on September 7, 2023
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Alles super funktioniert
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