For all the Fifty Shades of Grey fans out there, Jenny Pedroza and Mike Farris' book offers a rare, inside peek into the publishing industry, how the Fifty Shades series came to be, and the women behind the mega-hit. While Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotica book that shook the world, was fictional, Fifty Shades of Black and White is anything but ... this true story of a legal literary battle is full of corruption, lies, and betrayal.
As authors Farris and Pedroza take turns laying out the events that led to the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up litigation, Fifty Shades of Black and White reads more like a movie script. One cannot miss the many similarities between the fiction and non-fiction Shades. In E.L. James fiction, back-and-forth emails endear readers to the characters. In Pedroza/Farris' non-fiction, the real-life email exchanges between the publishing partners is maddening as greed erodes once blossoming friendships, ruins careers and threatens the very livelihoods of those who helped put the Shades series on the literary map. With millions of dollars and reputations at stake, the drama of Fifty Shades of Black and White is so intense at times, I had to set the book down and walk away.
In full disclosure, I am a friend of Jenny Pedroza and had been one of her authors with the publishing house she helped create. While Pedroza was accused of breaking a non-disclosure, I was on the edge of my seat reading as I learned things she had never shared -- until now. More than a story about our judicial system, theft and betrayal, this book is also a story about strength, courage, reclaiming one's life and the unshakable bonds of true friends and family. A person can only be pushed so far until she is forced to fight back and, for Pedroza, there was no longer any room for grey.
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