Music Monday: Sade

Music Monday is our chance to feature music that we really love. Many writers use a writing playlist to help set the mood and tone of the scenes they are writing. We like to spotlight music from our favorite authors' playlists, but sometimes we just go with our favorite songs.

This week we are featuring a song from E. L. James' Fifty Shades Freed playlist.

Winner: Fifty Shades Freed Giveaway

Congratulations to 

Jeannie P. 

from Louisiana! 

She is the winner of our Fifty Shades Freed giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!

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Blog Tour: Review, Giveaway, & Interview for Fifty Shades Freed

Fifty Shades Freed

Fifty Shades Trilogy #3

By: E. L. James

Published by: The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House

Release Date: January 19, 2012

Format: ePub (Nook)

Source: ARC provided by publisher

Buy it on Amazon or TWCS

Genre: Erotic Fiction

Audience: Mature Audiences (18+)

Explicit Sex & themes of BDSM

**Don't miss the Author Interview and eBook Giveaway at the end of this review!**

My Thoughts:

Oh. My. Fifty Shades. Just when you thought you couldn’t love Christian Grey anymore, a whole new shade of Grey wraps itself around your heart. When we last saw Christian and Ana, they were set to spend the rest of their lives discovering the depths of their love. Ana was sure that they would face his past, and their future, together. What neither of them are ready for is the way his past and their future become mingled together in one messy event after another.



It is so hard to review this book without spoilers. I'm typically very long-winded when it comes to Christian Grey and the Fifty Shades trilogy. This review is going to be unusually short for me because I don't want to spoil anyone. This is definitely a book that you want to experience first hand. What I will tell you is this - everything you've come to love from E. L. James' writing is here. It's a page turner from the very beginning. The writing is simple and direct, and falling into the story is effortless. There is a perfect combination of romance, passion, humor, and drama. Christian will in turns melt your heart and frustrate you to no ends, as will Ana. Their love is volatile. No emotion is felt half-way. There are surprises at every turn. Christian is still learning to deal with his past as well as Ana's inner strength and independence (which she asserts in some really frustrating ways), and Ana is still finding a balance between being true to her inner goddess, accepting Christian's past and helping him move forward, and becoming the woman she was destined to be. While I didn't find Fifty Shades Freed to be quiet as emotional as Fifty Shades Darker was, it still packed a punch. I loved every second not only of this book, but of the entire trilogy. My only question now...Is there life after Fifty?

Fifty Shades Freed Blog Tour

Announcing the Fifty Shades Freed Blog Tour! Visit each blog in the tour for a chance to win an ebook of Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James. Don't forget to come back to Reading Lark After Dark on January 30th to read my review and enter to win an ebook from us.


Blog Tour Schedule:


Jan 23rd: PA Lupton – Review, Interview, Paperback giveaway

24th: Fiction Vixen – Review and giveaway 
http://www.fictionvixen.com/

25th: Bookish Temptations – Review and giveaway 
http://bookishtemptations.com/

25th: Ja čitam, a ti? – Review (In Bosnian and English) 
http://jacitamati.blogspot.com/

26th: My secret romance – Interview  and giveaway
http://mysecretromancebooks.blogspot.com/

27th: Claire’s Book Corner – Review and giveaway 
http://clairesbookcorner.blogspot.com/

28th: Under The Covers – Review, Character Interview and Giveaway
http://underthecoversbookblog.blogspot.com/

29th: The Book Pushers – Review and giveaway 
http://thebookpushers.com/

30th: Reading Lark – Review, Interview and giveaway 
http://readinglarkafterdark.blogspot.com/

31st: My Life One Story At A Time – Review and giveaway 
http://mylife-in-stories.blogspot.com/

31st: ALPHA reader – Review and giveaway 
http://alphareader.blogspot.com/

Feb 1st: SER’s Awesomeness – Review , Guest post and giveaway 
http://samsawesomness.blogspot.com/

2nd:  Bonafide Reflections – Review and giveaway 
http://www.bona-fide-reflections.com/

3rd: Endlessly Bookish – Review  and giveaway 
http://www.endlesslybookish.com

Teaser Tuesday: Fifty Shades Freed & Immortal Rider

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly feature, hosted by 

MizB of Should Be Reading. 

"I know your game," he whispers and he slowly sinks into the cool, clear water, taking me with him as his lips find mine once more. The chill of the Mediterranean is soon forgotten as I wrap myself around my husband.
~Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades Trilogy #3) by E. L. James, pg. 7 ARC copy

*Reading Lark After Dark will be participating in the Fifty Shades Freed blog tour and we will be giving away a copy to one lucky reader! Stay tuned!!!

"Arik sank down on one of the benches, and she got the impression he was trying to look non- threatening. Though with his chest harnesses and gun belt, she didn't think it worked. It did add an extra layer of sexy to him, though."
~Immortal Rider (Lords of Deliverance #2) by Larissa Ione, page 182

*Read Michelle's review of Immortal Rider HERE on Reading Lark After Dark.