Fifty Shades Darker

My mom gave me the entire Fifty Shades trilogy for Christmas. I held off for a while before diving into the second installment, Fifty Shades Darker. Then I got hungry for an easy read that I could get lost inside. And lose myself I did, the series' popularity is likely in part due to the way the books provide such a nice escape from one's life. Well written? Definitely not. Gripping and addictive? Completely. If it wasn't for the fact a hold for a book I've been waiting months for was available for pick up, I would've read the next book.

It's funny how fast I read this book when I've been averaging no more than 20 pages a day lately. I was reading no less than 50 a day (sometimes as much as 100) with this book. It's nice to be overtaken by a book like that, pushing aside everything to find out what will happen. I'm looking forward to getting through my 'to read' pile and getting back to the last installment of this guilty pleasure reading.