Then a very close friend suddently posted on FB her deep , heartfelt desire for a Christian Gray of her own. A rather short-lived Whatsapp debate ensued on our friends-group-chat, no less She was all "oh, but he's not an abuser, he's madly in love, and they have a contract and she can jump on him whenever she wants, and he's filthy rich and gloriously hot".
But the abuse, I could't let go. The discussion ended with her telling me that it's a beautiful love story and that I should really read it.
I gave her a non-committal "de gustibus" and resolved to read this sorry excuse for a literary phenomenon and get back at her with hopefully renewed enthusiasm. That's when I realized I had no way of getting a copy of the book in English and for free for a while. Needless to say, I remain unimpressed. What I wasn't expecting, though, is that I was also exceedingly underwhelmed. I'll admit that MotU wasn't all that I was expecting: it was incredibly less brutal and rage-inducing than anticipated, and at the same time far less sexy than a novel being marked as "soft-porn" ought to be.
And then she goes on FB telling the world that she wants nothing more than someone who'd bully her into eating what and when he chooses. Anyways, moving on to the actual review I think the best was to describe this story is bland.
Bland heroine, bland sex, bland stereotyped story with bland plot "twists". Other than that, though, her constant wining about being "unworthy" and "not good enough" are still as annoying as ever. I get it that the average woman reading a romance novel should be able to empathize with the main character and root for her because if she can find everlasting happiness with Mr. Perfect, then so can the reader.
But either you do that, and you really give an appropriate rendition of a Mr. Perfect, or you chose to make your heroine actually beautiful, with men dropping at her feet at every turn, and Mr. Perfect being in awe of her beauty. You can't have it both ways, because a beautiful girl who keeps telling us she's actually not that good looking is frankly unbearable. Especially if she looks down on any single other woman in her life for being good-looking, wearing make-up, having an interesting hairdo, or, Heaven forbid!
Edward is Edward. Rich and influential an not afraid to use his power to reach his means. Stalkerish and controlling. This translate to him not having any real relationship with women, other than a working one, based on a non-enforceable contract and a NDA, for sure, but a work relationship nonetheless. The perks for the woman is that she gets to be ordered around, which turns her on, if she's into the lifestyle, and get lots of expensive presents, without really having to commit on any kind of emotional level for periods of three months at a time.
If she grows attached and he dumps her, it'll just be like any other break up and she'll adjust to it and move on it takes a subsequent boyfriend dying on her, to throw one of the past subs over the edge and trying to get back at Edward. Bella is therefore the first woman to actually catch Edward's interest in the romantic sense, much as Edward is Bella's first everything. It's the usual teenage love story, and the change of setting is only an excuse to have the character move more freely around without having to explain themselves to their parents.
I don't really want to rehash all that, even though I wholly agree with most of what is being said in that regard. The only BDSM characters in the story are, possibly, Edward's ex subs and, maybe, Irina, since we don't know enough of her backstory to judge whether she really is into to lifestyle of is she's just a rapist with a penchant for violence.
Edward is not. He's not into BDSM for the sexual gratification and for the playful aspect of it. He's into BDSM because that's the only outlet he found for his pathological need for control and his hardly suppressed rage at life, at himself, and at brunettes. He finds some sort of short-term psychological release in beating up brunettes which remind him of his biological mother, and then he fucks them for good measure, since that's what his mother ever did: fuck and get beaten.
Edward is basically an extremely disturbed person, who should be in real therapy. Also, it's extremely improbable that such deep rooted wounds would get cured by someone just passing by. That's science-fiction of the highest degree, not romance. Real anger has no place in BDSM, as does self-loathing. The only thing of any real interest of the whole ff is actually Edward's backstory, even though it hardly adds up to the rest of his bio, within the ff.
Some good writer should pick up the story of an abused child and tell his long road to health and love from his point of view. And possibly make it believable. As it is, I can't help but find it impossible to reconcile the poor, hungry, beat up child, who spent four days with his mom's corpse and could find emotional release only when he was later raped by a BDSM enthusiast, with the adopted son of a loving, high-class family, with a M.
Had Edward been left to his own devices, I might buy the fact that he'd be so messed up about his past in his late twenties. But somehow, I find it highly improbable that his loving and educated family never did anything even remotely useful to help him.
So much that they'd actually despair of his anger-management issues at 15 and never bothered to investigate their sudden disappearance. As with Bella's characterization: either you make the Cullen's the best family ever or you choose to make them inefficient, useless, and uninterested idiots. You can't have it both ways. And since this is a ff, and you want to keep the characters as true to the original as possible, if you can't make it work, find some other plot.
Or give up. Or keep is as it is, but when someone approaches you about changing the names and publishing your story, refuse. Or at least ask professional help in reworking the story. Let's face it: ff is fun and I've read it for years. But I wouldn't be reviewing this if it had just remained a ff actually, I wouldn't even have read it.
It's the fact that these unrealistic characters and improbable plot were barely questioned before the names were changed and the story was published as original that's infuriating. Once the book supposedly became it's own story, there was no need to keep Edward's parents faithful to SMeyer's Esmee and Carlisle. It doesn't work. At all. View all 3 comments. Sep 01, JimDavisFan rated it did not like it Shelves: awful , boring , craptacular. First of all, I want to thank the Youtube user manwithoutabody for doing a dramatic reading of this atrocity.
His clever annotations and funny voice work somehow made the whole Master of the Universe experience a little bit less painful. That being said, I have nothing but contempt for this story. Yes, for me it was even worse than "My Immortal". Much, much worse. My hatred for this book has nothing to do with the fact First of all, I want to thank the Youtube user manwithoutabody for doing a dramatic reading of this atrocity.
My hatred for this book has nothing to do with the fact that is horribly written At moments, the awful prose reminded me of "My Inner Life", another bad fanfic with a dramatic reading done by manwithoutabody or the fact that all the characters are completely inhuman and unlikeable, and not even with the completely messed up way in which the author glorifies an abusive relationship. What really pisses me off about "Master of the Universe" is the fact that it's unspeakably boring.
It's boring beyond belief. I swear, I never had the disgrace to witness such a tedious amount of dullness and banality taken to this extreme levels. Chapter 22 The one with the creepy sex contract feels like one of those Terms and Conditions disclaimers nobody wants to read , yet for some reason the author felt the need to devote a large chunk from her book to it, even when a lot of the clauses from that stupid contract had very little relevance to the overall plot and that the whole thing could have been easily sumarized in just one or two pages at most.
James doesn't believe in that. Instead, she prefers to indulge herself in a dull and repetitive prose to narrate in full detail a bland and unnecessarily long romance story that barely offers any element of interest besides of the laughably bad sex scenes. It's only in those moments when "Master of the Universe" changes its usually dull pacing and turns awkwardly cringeworthy.
This AU version of Bella and Edward is absolutely awful. I did not care very much about them in the original Twilight, but I completely loathe both of them here.
Somehow, E. James managed to make two of the most reviled fictional characters from the recent years to be even more irritating, even more pathetic. How's that even possible? I despise this book. I despise the franchise it inspired. I won't go as far to say that I also hate the author since I don't know her personally but she is one of my least favorite writers from all time. That is horrible. Even worse is the fact that is not even a He-Man fanfic, and that's simply unforgivable.
May 28, Lilian rated it it was amazing Shelves: challenge-done-reading. I am glad I haven't started to read fifty shades of grey yet. I am in love with this original version. With Edward and Bella I have fallen for their story in twilight saga, and with master of the universe I have fallen in love with them all over again.
It's been quite a while since I have picked up a book and been so into that I have read it well into the night and gone to bed at 4 am. Some characters' minor details were altered for FSoG so that they wouldn't be completely identical to their corresponding Twilight character. The following table gives the major characters whose names were changed from MotU to Fifty Shades. The plots of both MotU and Fifty Shades are largely the same, and only differ on minor points.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Master of the Universe. History Talk 0. During Fifty Shades of Grey. In MotU, Jacob's mother was deceased.
In Fifty Shades, Mia and Ethan are interested in one another, but Ethan doesn't want to date her because their siblings are together. In MotU, Jasper and Alice "get together", but the conflict is that he won't sleep with her because she is a virgin, and he doesn't want to rush into sex. I can see the raw edge of it all. If I had to describe it - it would fall under 'Bridget Jones girly book with a bit more of an edge' Fantastic read cannot fault it!!!
Loved it better than 50 Shades only because it has Edward and Bella; I fell in love with them in the Twilight series, so I absolutely loved them here, it was exiting. I must said I'm disappointed I didn't read this one first Or maybe not; I do tend to like having the best for last, and, to me, this is the best one.
That's when I realized I had no way of getting a copy of the book in English and for free for a while. Not to mention, relying on a man with money and power is the least safe position to put yourself in. Ladies please be careful who you play with.
It's not even rapey lol. Christian didn't even fuck her ass - big letdown. Just goes to show that you can do whatever you put your mind to, even if most people seem to think it's mediocre or plain fucking bizarre. There's thousands of people on fanfiction. Some of it involves original characters, but most is based off the fandoms the authors are in.
I could go write a so-called intense sex story right now with a less-than-decent plot based off one of my fandoms, then switch all the names after I'm done with it, and attempt to turn it into a best seller.
Not as easy as it sounds though, because it's probably become all too common after Snowqueens Icedragon did it. Supposedly being able to put sex into words is considered a talent nowadays, because we're just sick of the same old visual pornography.
Might as well offer some kind of curriculum in a college writing course considering they teach you crap you're most likely not going to use in your daily life. A real kudos to you, E. This is coming from someone whose mother couldn't even get through the book because she lost interest less than halfway through. I agree with you completely. The books were some of the worst I have ever read, along with the twilight saga.
And I was a champ and finished both of those series, but good lord was it painful. FSoG has no plot I found. I've never read a book without a plot before. The people who read these books really must have no clue what a well written book from a talented author really is.
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