• purpleworm [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        Edit: whoops, see reply

        It’s not just not subtle, isn’t it like the main plot, especially in the third book, that it’s just about getting out of an abusive relationship?

        • fox [comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          No, the author has multiple times gotten into tirades against people that think Grey is an abuser. She’s made it very very clear that the books do not in any way shape or form represent an abusive relationship. She’s categorically blind to the idea that the man with a hair-trigger temper that isolates Anastasia, ignores her consent, gaslights her, makes her suppress her feelings around him, and intentionally gets her drunk to take advantage of her may be abusive. Awful author.

          In fact she doubled down in the reboot(?) book retelling the story from Grey’s POV where he’s very much actively making these decisions.

          • purpleworm [none/use name]
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            143 months ago

            Wow, that’s dreadful. I think maybe it’s because I was going off of a plot synopsis and thought “there’s no way this is meant to be okay,” especially the isolation part. Like, is it really a marketable kink to be isolated from your friends and family indefinitely by a controlling partner?