Freed: Fifty Shades Freed as Told by Christian

by E L James

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Aside from Bond, what other last name shook the hearts, minds and souls of so many readers? Grey. Christian Grey. He was always half of the thrilling and provocative couple in the Fifty Shades trilogy. The first trilogy was seen through the eyes of Anastasia Steele. E L James has been working through Christian’s point-of-view with Grey then Darker. Still pretty hot after all these years, it’s time for you to indulge in part three of the Christian and Anastasia story — as told by the series’ namesake, Grey.

An instant #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestseller!

Relive the sensuality, the romance, and the drama of Fifty Shades Freed through the thoughts, reflections, and dreams of Christian Grey.

E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the globe.

You are cordially invited to the wedding of the decade, when Christian Grey will make Anastasia Steele his wife. But is he really husband material? His dad is unsure, his brother wants to organize one helluva bachelor party, and his fiancée won't vow to obey…

And marriage brings its own challenges. Their passion for each other burns hotter and deeper than ever, but Ana's defiant spirit continues to stir Christian's darkest fears and tests his need for control. As old rivalries and resentments endanger them both, one misjudgment threatens to tear them apart.

Can Christian overcome the nightmares of his childhood and the torments of his youth, and save himself? And once he's discovered the truth of his origins, can he find forgiveness and accept Ana's unconditional love?

Can Christian finally be freed?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728251059
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Series:	Fifty Shades Trilogy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	768
Sales rank:	6,487
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. She followed with the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mister in 2019. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.

E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World" and Publishers Weekly's "Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award. She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. She followed with the #1 New York Times bestseller The Mister in 2019. In 2021, she released the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestseller Freed, the third novel in the As Told by Christian trilogy. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.

E L James has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World and Publishers Weekly’s Person of the Year. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Darker was longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People’s Choice Award for Drama in 2018.

E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their beloved dogs in the leafy suburbs of West London.

Editorial Reviews

2021-06-08
Ten years after the publication of Fifty Shades of Grey, the series closes with the final installment of the trilogy from reclusive billionaire Christian Grey’s point of view.

The book opens in the summer of 2011 on the night of Christian’s engagement to his girlfriend and submissive, Anastasia Steel. There is no summarizing or recapping, just a plunge back into the fast-paced life of Seattle's favorite billionaire. In the last book, Darker (2017), Christian’s helicopter crashed, and now the investigation shows evidence of foul play. Christian’s main concerns are securing his future with Ana, battling the inner demons that have plagued him since childhood, and finding the mysterious villain attacking him both personally and professionally. The plot is episodic, just a series of small, urgent crises that fail to gel into a cohesive or interesting story. Christian is not an introspective man, which makes the 755 pages of first-person narration difficult reading. A description of his favorite turkey sandwich merits as much space as a fight with his father. When Ana challenges him—for example, by refusing to use the word obey in her wedding vows—he stomps and rages but doesn’t once consider why she might find it offensive. One of the flaws of the series has always been the stereotypical portrayal of childhood abuse leading to an interest in kink and BDSM. Both Christian’s father and therapist hold him responsible for having had sex as a teenager with one of his mother’s friends, and only Ana is clearheaded enough to insist he was abused, both morally and legally. By the end, Christian learns the truth about his birth mother and makes peace with his past, but there is nothing new or interesting in the tale.

Of interest only to long-term fans of the series, and even they might be disappointed.

Kirkus Reviews