Top Ten Tuesday: If you liked Fifty Shades....

 

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme hosted by our friends and the awesome bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they post a new Top Ten list for us to review and then compile our own. 

 

 

This week's topic:  Books For People Who Like 'X' Book

Since it has been such a huge hit, and I have found myself spiraling down the 'what to read next' rabbit hole. I choose Fifty Shades of Grey (overdone, I know).

Top Ten Books For People Who Like Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. 

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Mine?

  

1. Twilight: Stephanie Myers
It's gotta be said. This was the inspiration for Fifty Shades!

2. Bared To You: A Crossfire Novel: Sylvia Day 
This is an exact likeness with a twist. Day stamped out this replica to give her readers a fix of something popular.

  

3. Slammed: Colleen Hoover
A must read for all YA, contemporary Romance fans. Nowhere near as dark as Fifty, but just as addicting, and possibly even more powerful.

  

4. Gaberiel's Inferno: Sylvia Day
Hmmm.. more forbidden love, intense relationships, and sacrifice. This is a keeper that forces you to pay attention! (or you'll catch pneumonia and die).

  

     5. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: Anne Rice
     Sex slaves, erotica, submission - with a plot!

  

6. Seven Day Loan: Tiffany Reisz
Short, sexy, and sweet. A much closer truth to the Dom/Sub lifestyle.

  

7. Beautiful Disaster: Jamie McGuire
It's not about BDSM or even really erotica, but it is about a twisted-up man changing for a woman - and needing her more than anything else in the world.

  

8. Easy: Tammara Webber
Guy with a tortured past, romance, suspense.  I think most readers will enjoy it.

  

9. A Kiss of Shadows: Laurell K. Hamilton
Okay, I admit this is a far cry. This book really isn't anything like Fifty, but for some reason when I finished Fifty Shades, I wanted to re-read the Merry Gentry series. It builds as the series progresses, but Merry and her men are always up for steamy sex, court intrigue, and even love. And yes - there are plenty of tortured pasts and dark turns to keep you interested. (If you like this one - go for the Anita Blake series. Way more along the lines of risque sex, but you have to get several books in before you reach it).

  

 


10. Shadowfever: Karen Marie Moning
Again, not a rubber stamp of Fifty Shades, but if you liked that book, I would recommend this one to you. It's an action fantasy with a love story woven in. Shadowfever is the last in the series, but has the most of what you are looking for. If you have the time - start at  the beginning of the Fever series.

What are your top recommendations for people who enjoyed Fifty Shades?

  

-Rita

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