I‘ve been sitting on this review for a while. I read the 4th book in the series first and liked it enough to try the series from the beginning. This first one though, you can definitely follow the 50 Shades fandom. There was also character mixup, 2 different guys being called Jake, when one was supposed to be Jack but you only knew that if read the series out of order.
Since I liked the 4th book but not the 1st one I‘m giving it a so-so.