Livre d'Or

I really like the quote 'using co-incidences to get your characters into difficult situations can be good writing, using co-incidence to get them out is just laziness'

Having made it through 2/3 books now, I think (a) is mildly true - in that it succumbs hugely to the 'he only wants to beat women because of his Tragic Childhood trope - although I think it does quite well at the portrayal of _Ana_ as discovering she likes some kinky fuckery and isn't abusive. The book is deeply inconsistent on (b). I think by the end of book 2 / start of book 3 there is a pretty consistent theme of 'Christian does something abusive and controlling and Ana says 'oh, come on, this is mad and just you being fucked up again', and is genuinely annoyed by it, not pleased by it'. But there are definitely lots of points in the books where he does something controlling and she does find it sexy and hot.

[Oh, I just realised my LJ filters were out of date, and you weren't on the one where I wibbled about this. Fixed now, if you're interested]