Fanny Merkin

Prelim Review: This book took me just over 2hrs to complete and had me laughing for almost the entire time. Knowledge of the source material (either Fifty Shades of Gray or Twilight--take your pick) isn't really necessary to get the humor, though some of the funnier bits are best found funny if you do know one or the other.

Shaffer (or 'Merkin') does a really good job at poking fun at everything under the sun in regards to the whole Fifty Shades travesty. Up front--I read the first book, under duress and simply because I was tired of people telling me to read it. At least after reading it I have every right to criticize it. Moving on, this is just pure fun. The sex is awkward and about as hot as table water, the characters are basically interesting because of how they mock Christian Gray and Ana Steele (or Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, again take your pick) and Earl Grey is about as screwed up as Christian Gray just with less sexual assault as a kid.

Full review to be posted at Poisoned Rationality… (más)

This book is a parody of the popular 2012 book 50 Shades of Grey. Having never read the original, it made little sense to me to try reading this parody, but it was such a short book, I tried it anyway. Unfortunately, reading this without the context of the original, the book was just stupid to me. Admittedly, this was my own limitation, not necessarily indicative of a flawed book. If you've read the E.L. James original, and are interested in something which is similar to, but pokes fun at the original, you may find this book amusing. It's a parody, so it's supposed to be silly. But if you haven't read the original Fifty Shades of Grey,there'll be no anchor for the ridiculous side of this book, and you may be as confused and disappointed as I.… (más)