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jschmidt10's review
4.0
Can I do 3 1/2 stars? Maybe I’ll change to 4. Regardless, I don’t know if I’ve ever read a parody of fan fiction, but this was enjoyable, and I thought the author was clever and exaggerated things just perfectly. I read the Fifty Shades trilogy and thought they were poorly written. The repetitive descriptions and some of the awkwardness (“inner goddess”) made me cringe. So when Merkin gives Anna an “inner guidette” I cackled. This is a very quick read - more a compilation of Merkin’s (a pen name for the author) writing parodies of the trilogy and commentary on the evolution of fan fiction in publishing. If you hate-read Fifty trilogy like I did, you’ll get a small kick out of this!
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