A few colours of predictability…

Ok, so we have a few ladies in the office who have been enticed and overwhelmed by flipping the pages (or sliding the screen) of the latest book crazy, ‘fifty shades of whatsit’.

But some have become a little bored by its predictability.

So is this a book of the ages, has overrun the Mills and Boon literature of romance, or is it nothing more than a predictable mass-market read for bored housewives and those who love fads?

Or is it just luck – an author who actually fell into the literary pool of writing slush, basic character development and creating nice names and who just wanted to write a book?

It’s no Anna Karenina or Jane Austen bundle, but it obviously had something gripping.

So what makes a good book great? And is ‘50 shades’ the latest equivalent of a viral video, hot off the bookshelves and into our laps, with a cuppa on the side table, late at night, so when we awake we can have a ‘water cooler’ moment…?