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Grey
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2015-06-30
- Spice
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A retelling of the Fifty Shades love story from Christian Grey's perspective. Christian is a wealthy, controlling businessman whose meticulously ordered world is empty until shy Anastasia Steele literally falls into his office. He tries to forget her but is consumed by feelings he cannot understand. Ana sees past his polished exterior to his cold, wounded heart, offering him fragile hope. Yet Christian is haunted by childhood horrors and burdened by dark sexual desires, a compulsion to control, and deep self-loathing—all of which threaten to drive her away.
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- Morally Gray: “his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul” source
- Workplace Romance: “until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair” source
- Slow Burn: “He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist” source
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