Looking for your next hot erotica trilogy, all roads lead to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, a trilogy by the incredible Anne Rice. Originally published under the pen name A.N. Roquelaure, this series. The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty: Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, Book 1 PDF. James and Sylvia Day, there was Anne Rice: Discover Beauty’s Kingdom, the fourth novel in the bestselling Sleeping Beauty series Mega-bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A. Roquelaure, returns to the mysterious kingdom of Queen Eleanor in this new chapter of her Sleeping Beauty series.
Author | Anne Rice |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Erotic novel |
Publisher | E. P. Dutton/Plume, New York, NY, U.S.A. |
Publication date | The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: 1 March 1983 Beauty's Punishment: 26 March 1984 Beauty's Release: 3 June 1985 Beauty's Kingdom: 21 April 2015 |
Media type | Print, audiobook |
Pages | The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: 253 pp |
ISBN | 0-452-26656-4 (The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, 1983 hardcover and trade paper editions) ISBN0-525-48458-2 (Beauty's Punishment) ISBN0-452-26663-7 (Beauty's Release) ISBN978-0-525-42799-5 (Beauty's Kingdom) |
OCLC | 22915205 |
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom, first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015 in the United States. They are eroticBDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios amid vivid imageries of bisexuality, homosexuality, ephebophilia and pony play.[1]
In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was read by actress Amy Brenneman. Beauty's Punishment was read by Elizabeth Montgomery (known for her role in the ABCsituation comedyBewitched) as Beauty with Michael Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty's Release was by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.[2] A compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier and Winthrop Eliot.[3][4]
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Background[edit]
After the success of Interview with the Vampire (1976), Anne Rice wrote two extensively researched historical novels, The Feast of All Saints (1979) and Cry to Heaven (1982). Neither of them gave her the critical acclaim or the commercial success of her first novel; the main complaints about The Feast of All Saints were that it was too heavy and dense to read easily,[5] and most of the reviews for Cry to Heaven were so savagely negative that Rice felt devastated.[6] She had been thinking about a story set during the time of Oscar Wilde for the next novel, but decided to abandon it and go back to the erotic writing she had explored in the 1960s.[7] Her idea was 'to create a book where you didn't have to mark the hot pages' and 'to take away everything extraneous, as much as could be done in a narrative'.[7] To gain a creative freedom for the new work, Rice adopted the nom de plume A.N. Roquelaure from the French word Roquelaure, referring to a cloak worn by men in the 18th-century Europe.[7][8] Rice only finally came out as the author of the trilogy during the later 1990s.
The trilogy was written in the 1980s when many feminists denounced pornography as violation of women's rights, but Rice firmly believed that women should have the freedom to read and write whatever they pleased, and considered the trilogy her political statement.[9]
A fourth book in the series, Beauty's Kingdom, was published in April 2015.[10]
Plot summary[edit]
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty[edit]
In the first chapter of the story, Beauty is awakened from her hundred-year sleep by the Prince, not with a kiss, but through copulation, initiating her into a Satyricon-like world of sexual adventures. After stripping her naked he takes her to his kingdom, ruled by his mother Queen Eleanor, where Beauty is trained as a slave and a plaything. The rest of the naked slaves, dozens of them, in the Queen's castle are princes and princesses sent by their royal parents from the surrounding kingdoms as tributes. In this castle they spend several years learning to become obedient and submissive sexual property, accepting being spanked and forced to have sex with nobles and slaves of both sexes, being publicly displayed and humiliated, and crawling around on their hands and knees like animals until they return to their own lands 'being enhanced in wisdom.'
In the castle Beauty meets another slave, Prince Alexi, with whom she copulates passionately. After that he tells her about the long adventurous journey he had in the castle. Alexi previously had been a stubborn prince who fought back all the attempts to break him, until the Queen sent him to the kitchen to have him tortured by crude kitchen servants. Alexi received such a savage and merciless punishment there that he began to lose his senses and, after some particularly humiliating training at the hands of a strong stable boy, Alexi became a totally surrendered slave, playing various sexual games at the Queen's commands.
The moral of Alexi's story notwithstanding, Beauty willfully disobeys, and the book closes with her being sentenced to brutal slavery in the neighboring village while her master weeps.
Beauty's Punishment[edit]
The second book starts as Beauty and another naked slave from the castle, Prince Tristan, are sold at auction in the village square. Beauty is purchased by the inn keeper Mistress Lockely while Tristan is bought by Nicholas, the Queen's chronicler. At Lockely's inn Beauty meets the Captain of the Guard, who forces her to pleasure him and then takes her to a drunken orgy with his soldiers. Tristan is bound and harnessed as a pony with a tail plugged in his rear, and made to pull Nicholas' cart while being whipped. When the cart arrives at an orchard, he is ordered to collect apples with his mouth, and trained to 'satisfy' other human ponies in the stable. Afterward, Nicholas has Tristan paddled at the Public Turntable, which devastates the prince, and forcibly copulates with him in the bed.
The next day, after having made Tristan march through the crowded streets, which included a short but intense meeting with the Captain of the Guard, Nicholas asks Tristan a series of questions as to what makes a strong, highborn prince obey with such a complete submission. Tristan answers, after some hesitation, that he loves anyone who punishes him no matter how crude or lowly they are and desires the loss of his self amid all the punishments, eventually 'becoming' the punishments himself. Nicholas is moved by the answer and, after a frantic intercourse, confesses to him that he is in love with Tristan.
Beauty witnesses the harsh punishment of a runaway slave, Prince Laurent, as he is bound to a wooden cross and the Captain whips him all over his muscular body, and later sees Tristan pulling a cart carrying Laurent in a penitential procession. Tristan begs Nicholas to be allowed to meet Beauty and they reunite in Nicholas' house. Beauty and Tristan copulate as Nicholas watches behind a one-way mirror. Suddenly, Arab soldiers raid the village and several naked slaves, including Beauty, Tristan and Laurent, are kidnapped. The book closes as they are sent across the sea to serve in the palace of the Sultan.
Beauty's Release[edit]
The third book begins with the captured slaves' journey on the ship to the Sultan's realm. While being imprisoned in a cage, Laurent contemplates the recent punishments he received as a runaway on a wooden cross, recalling its pain, degradation and undeniable pleasure. After their arrival at the exotic land of the Sultan, the captured slaves are groomed by a group of young boys and examined by Lexius, the Sultan's steward. Beauty is taken to the harem and is mounted on the phallus of a bronze statue. She is then greeted by Innana, one of the Sultan's wives, with whom she copulates and is shocked to discover that Innana's clitoris has been surgically removed.
Laurent and Tristan are taken to an all-male sadomasochistic orgy, being mounted on a cross and whipped. However, in private, Laurent overpowers Lexius and rapes him. Afterward Laurent and Tristan are taken to the Sultan, made to perform a mutual fellatio on each other in his presence, and then the Sultan anally copulates with Laurent. Laurent and Tristan retire from the Sultan's bedroom and when they are beginning to train Lexius as their secret slave, a rescue team led by the Captain of the Guard arrives and Laurent takes Lexius with him to their ship along with Beauty and Tristan. During the last leg of the voyage, the Captain tells Beauty that she is to be released from the servitude because of her parents' demands and, to her great dismay, sent back home to get married—she hysterically protests, but to no avail.
Back at the castle, the Queen takes Lexius as her slave and sends him to the merciless kitchen servants who trained Prince Alexi earlier in the first book. She then sentences both Laurent and Tristan to the village stable for Laurent's rebelliousness and Tristan's failure to become a good slave. They are made to live and work as ponies, pulling all sorts of carts and drawing plows in the fields during the daytime, and having homosexual orgies with other human ponies at night. Tristan, as a pony, reunites with his former owner Nicholas on a temporary basis. However, Laurent's father unexpectedly dies and he is summoned back to his own kingdom against his wish, to become the new ruler. The book ends as Laurent marries Beauty, saying that they shall live happily ever after, or perhaps 'a good deal happier' than anyone else could ever guess—hinting that they will continue the pleasure of dominance and submission with each other.
Beauty's Kingdom[edit]
20 years after the events of Beauty's Release, Beauty and Laurent take over the throne following the death of Queen Eleanor and strive to continue the sensual surrender legacy of the kingdom, albeit now in a state of voluntary servitude.
Theme[edit]
Sleeping Beauty by Edward Frederick Brewtnall
The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty has been analyzed by folklorists and other scholars of various types, and many of them have noticed prominent erotic elements of the story. Some versions of the tale have Beauty raped and pregnant while sleeping, and only waking up after childbirth.[11] The child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim commented that the tale 'abounds with Freudian symbolism'[12] and that the princes who try to reach Sleeping Beauty before the appropriate time only to perish in the thorns surrounding her castle serves as a warning that premature sexual encounters are destructive.[13]Feminist theorists have focused on Sleeping Beauty's extreme passivity and the sexual nature of her awakening in the fairy tale. Anne Rice literalized these symbolic sexual elements—particularly, the passive sexual awakening or rape of Beauty that has been denounced by feminists—in the story by rewriting it into an explicit sadomasochistic erotica. However, Rice's cross-gender identification with the submissive male characters with receptive capacity in the trilogy—Alexi, Tristan and Laurent—enabled her to circumvent the equation of the female gender and masochism and, via their homoerotic interactions with the dominant male characters, she could exploit the erotic potential of phallic power while at the same time going beyond its boundary and 'turning it against itself'.[14]
Another foremost difference in Rice's rewriting is that the story takes Beauty to a series of far harsher trials after her period of extreme passivity in a coma-like sleep.[15] In the beginning of the first book, the Prince takes Beauty with her parents' consent, having persuaded them that, after completing the sexual servitude in his castle, the slaves emerge with 'wisdom, patience, and self-discipline', as well as a full acceptance of their innermost desires and an understanding of the suffering of the humankind.[15] Her royal parents, although saddened by the absence of their daughter, are promised that she will return 'greatly enhanced in wisdom and beauty'. However, this unconventional education in sexual hardship and liberation ends in a monogamous, patriarchal marriage between Beauty and Laurent. In the 1994 issue of Feminist Review, Professor Amalia Ziv of Ben-Gurion University described the trilogy as 'definitely more of a comedy' when compared to darker BDSM novels such as Story of O, and commented that 'like all comedies, it ends in marriage'.[14]
Reception[edit]
The trilogy was a commercial success and gained a significant cult following. Anne Rice was able to secure the publishing contract for her next erotic novel Exit to Eden (1985) with an advance of US$35,000 from Arbor House.[16] There have been allegations that Rice is a dominatrix in real life since the trilogy deals with the BDSM practice so exclusively, but her husband Stan Rice replied that 'she's no more sadomasochistic than she's a vampire'.[17] When the director of the Columbus Metropolitan Library declared the trilogy 'hardcore pornography' and removed all print and audiocassette copies from the library shelves in 1996,[18] Rice objected, arguing that the trilogy was 'elegantly sensual' and harmless to readers.[18] The trilogy is included in the American Library Association's list of '100 most frequently challenged books' of the 1990s, with the term 'challenge' defined in American literature as 'an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group'.[19]
Professor Linda Badley of Middle Tennessee State University wrote in her 1996 book Writing Horror and the Body on the trilogy, that rewriting the myth of Sleeping Beauty as sadomasochistic fantasies enabled Anne Rice to explore 'liminal areas of experience that could not be articulated in conventional literature, extant pornography, or politically correct discourse'.[20]
Television adaptation[edit]
It was announced in September 2014 that Televisa U.S.A had obtained the rights to adapt the trilogy into a television series. Rice will serve as executive producer alongside Rachel Winter, producer of the film Dallas Buyers Club. Winter had previously approached Anne in 2012 regarding such plans that did not materialize at the time.[21] As of 2016, the series was still in early development.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Riley, Michael (1996). Conversations with Anne Rice: An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work. Ballantine. pp. 74–82. ISBN0-345-39636-7.
- ^Troise, Laura. 'Anne Rice FAQ Part 2/2'. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^'Anne Rice's Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty : Book 1 : The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty'. Archived from the original on 2010-05-14.
- ^'Beauty's Release Audio Book'.
- ^Guiley, Rosemary E.; Macabre, J. B. The Complete Vampire Companion: Legend and Lore of the Living Dead. Macmillan General Reference. p. 86. ISBN0-671-85024-5.
- ^Smith, Jennifer (1996). Anne Rice: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press. p. 5. ISBN0-313-29612-X.
- ^ abcHoppenstand, Gary; Browne, Ray B. (1996). The Gothic World of Anne Rice. Popular Press. p. 22. ISBN0-87972-708-X.
- ^'Roquelaure'. TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^Hoppenstand, Gary; Browne, Ray B. (1996). The Gothic World of Anne Rice. Popular Press. p. 23. ISBN0-87972-708-X.
- ^New erotica coming from A.N. Roquelaure, aka Anne Rice
- ^Haase, Donald (2007). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: Volume 1: A-F. Greenwood. p. 124. ISBN0-313-33442-0.
- ^Bettelheim, Bruno (2010). The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. Vintage. p. 232. ISBN0-307-73963-5.
- ^Bettelheim, Bruno (2010). The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. Vintage. p. 233. ISBN0-307-73963-5.
- ^ abZiv, Amalia (1994). 'The Pervert's Progress: An Analysis of Story of O and the Beauty trilogy'. Feminist Review: Issue 46. Routledge. ISBN0-415-11091-2.
- ^ abRamsland, Katherine M. (1991). Prism of the Night: Biography of Anne Rice. Dutton Adult. pp. 215–216. ISBN0-525-93370-0.
- ^Ramsland, Katherine M. (1991). Prism of the Night: Biography of Anne Rice. Dutton Adult. p. 357. ISBN0-525-93370-0.
- ^Ramsland, Katherine M. (1991). Prism of the Night: Biography of Anne Rice. Dutton Adult. p. 243. ISBN0-525-93370-0.
- ^ abSnodgrass, Mary E. (2006). Encyclopedia Of Feminist Literature. Facts on File. p. 450. ISBN0-8160-6040-1.
- ^'100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999'. American Library Association. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^Badley, Linda (1996). Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture). Greenwood Press. p. 115. ISBN0-313-29716-9.
- ^http://deadline.com/2014/09/anne-rice-the-sleeping-beauty-televisa-television-rights-an-roquelaure-832411/
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Nov 02, 2007Vanessa G. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
ah, anne rice's beauty series.
i was fourteen when i asked for this series for christmas. my family knew i loved to read and the only description i gave of the books was that they were just another anne rice goth trilogy. luckily, the box set i unwrapped christmas morning was still sealed in shrinkwrap. I think they would have had a heart attack if they knew they had bought their little catholic school girl bookworm a complete box set of graphic S&M erotica. oh! it was the best christmas eve...more
Feb 06, 2013Tousled Elegance rated it it was amazing · review of another editioni was fourteen when i asked for this series for christmas. my family knew i loved to read and the only description i gave of the books was that they were just another anne rice goth trilogy. luckily, the box set i unwrapped christmas morning was still sealed in shrinkwrap. I think they would have had a heart attack if they knew they had bought their little catholic school girl bookworm a complete box set of graphic S&M erotica. oh! it was the best christmas eve...more
Recommends it for: fans of erotica/erotic fiction, anyone interested in fetishes or bdsm
Recommended to Tousled Elegance by: StephTheGeek
I love dirty books! ;) I thought the Happy Hooker books were pretty naughty, but these 3 are some of the dirtiest I've ever read. I'd say it is a 'must read' for anyone interested in bdsm. (Note: 50 Shades Of Grey is tame in comparison!) Kink aside, it is actually kind of a romantic tale. I definitely got turned on, which is great, but I also felt like I just had to know what happened to Beauty and her, erm, associates next, which is even better! I usually don't read a book more than once, but I...more
Mar 09, 2013Mickey rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I love Anne Rice, but half way into book one, I was tired of all the spanking. I read the whole series because I cannot start reading books and put them down. I have to finish. And it was a chore. Not hot. Unless your fetish is spanking. Mine's not. Don't get me wrong. I was not offended or disgusted. I was bored.
Jul 01, 2010Agent 99 rated it liked it
This is pure erotica. Not a romance. There is a lot of BDSM, servitude, Punishment, f/m, m/m, f/f, and multiple partners in various forms. Not for the faint of heart.
Jan 04, 2014Susan (the other Susan) rated it did not like it · review of another edition Shelves: erotica, put-the-rot-in-erotica, low-brow, big-dumb-thug
Pardon me, but even in porn I want to like, or identify with, at least one character. I went into this expecting a sexy version of a fairytale that, let's face it, has always begged to be presented in an X-rated version. (Awakened with a kiss, or...? ) How disappointing. The opening showed promise - he scales the castle wall and finds the cursed princess in her bower, powerless to stop him from doing Whatever - but it quickly became clear that neither the prince or his newly claimed princess-sla...more
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Shelves: erotica, bdsm
I read it so long ago .
Well… If you are over 18 and want to know how a erotic novel must be you MUST start with this one. I was so incredible (my personal experience) read about so many (stupid) taboos that I couldn’t stop. She is marvelous… great book. Enjoy (really, I mean, enjoy in all senses ) the reading.
Well… If you are over 18 and want to know how a erotic novel must be you MUST start with this one. I was so incredible (my personal experience) read about so many (stupid) taboos that I couldn’t stop. She is marvelous… great book. Enjoy (really, I mean, enjoy in all senses ) the reading.
These books were recommended to me, as research for the book I am writing. I was told that it would help me understand what total submission meant. And that it delivered. Anne Rice put such a twist on this fairy tale, that it is hard to look at my nieces Sleeping Beauty dolls.
The story is perverse “Hunger Games” of sorts. Princes and Princesses are sent as tributes to serve as sex slaves to the Crowned Queen, in order to maintain an alliance.
The first book Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, followed...more
The story is perverse “Hunger Games” of sorts. Princes and Princesses are sent as tributes to serve as sex slaves to the Crowned Queen, in order to maintain an alliance.
The first book Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, followed...more
Oct 27, 2012M.M. Strawberry Library & Reviews rated it did not like it
There are so many things wrong with this book, right from page one. I have read and enjoyed Ms. Rice's other works (including Exit to Eden and Belinda) and was very excited to read this trilogy. I understood that it would be more risque than her other books, including Exit to Eden but I was cool with that. However, I was dismayed to find that this was a book about contrived and unneccessary punishment with a ridiculous premise.
Beauty's parents let her go with a prince when they knew she was goin...more
Beauty's parents let her go with a prince when they knew she was goin...more
First, I took this book by mistake.. Its not what i normally read, And I wish I could undo that mistake, I was barely 16 when I read it.. And it was too much for me, sex, sex,sex and more sex.. And twisted sex.. I was horrified, with all respect I think this book is mentally, psychologically, twisted, there's no romance, there is almost no feelings to it whatsoever. I would no why it was banned, it is waaaay bad. It was almost as if I lost my virginity reading it ! To me no sane person would...more
Feb 26, 2014Bella Swann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Sizzling hot series!
The first time I read this collection by Anne Rice was many, many years ago and it absolutely blew me away. I loved how creative and imaginative the stories were as well as unbelievably rough, raunchy, and sizzling hot. They definitely inspired me years later when I started to write my own erotica. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is still one of my favourite erotic novels even years later.
The first time I read this collection by Anne Rice was many, many years ago and it absolutely blew me away. I loved how creative and imaginative the stories were as well as unbelievably rough, raunchy, and sizzling hot. They definitely inspired me years later when I started to write my own erotica. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is still one of my favourite erotic novels even years later.
Apr 24, 2011Carolyn Bunkley added it
This set was a gift from someone who just didn't know any better. I read most of the first one; it was awful. I find it very difficult to just throw a book in the trash, preferring to give them to someone who'd appreciate them. I don't know anyone I could have inflicted this drek on. These books are among the very few I as all too happy to just trash. Ick.
Mar 29, 2011Amber Adamchuk rated it it was amazing
I read this set years ago and yet even today it sends chills and awakens my private area's. Not meant for the young. Not meant for the prude. Well written. I love this set and could read it over and over.
Jun 10, 2013Janis Delos rated it did not like it · review of another edition
I love Anne Rice. But I ABSOLUTELY HATE this series! It is degrading and disturbing but I read it all because I thought it'll be better, but, oh boy. I wasted a very long time over this books.
Jul 29, 2010DC rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This book is a good read (note: erotica) for those who are into BDSM. This rather peculiar twist of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale is quite interesting-- I can still quite remember the singular scenes of the oriental palace. What's most curious is that just like any fairytale, this one ends in a happy ending-- one wherein a pretty princess gets a sexually-fulfilled happily ever after.
Mar 16, 2013Heather added it · review of another edition
Read 28%, DNF.
I love erotica. I love stories that contain BDSM. I can even handle -and like- stories with ambiguous consent, but utter degradation for the sole purpose breaking of someone I have a tough time with.
I love erotica. I love stories that contain BDSM. I can even handle -and like- stories with ambiguous consent, but utter degradation for the sole purpose breaking of someone I have a tough time with.
Mar 25, 2014Shari rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Wow! The same things were repeated page after page. It was so boring and predictable. After the second book I had enough. I started the third but it was just absolutely some of the craziest writing I've ever read. I couldn't take anymore. Will not waste my time on anymore books like this.
May 04, 2012Heather rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites, erotica, vampire-supernatural
Mar 16, 2013Angelina Cavarretta rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I started reading these after 50 Shades of Grey. All I can say is that these books would make Christian Grey cry.
Sexy and erotic and all about S & M. Gay men sex, heterosexual sex, lesbian sex. This series is all about sex.
Jul 16, 2018Christa marked it as dnf · review of another edition
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Banned books! What is the cause for banning books? The top reason for banning books are sex, violence, drugs, and religion. Banning books doesn’t help student, it takes away from their learning or take away what they enjoy doing on their free time which is to read. Age plays a major roll that can stoop the banning of books. Violence is more then what people think it is. Sex plays a major roll in life too. I don’t think books should be banned
First age. Instead of banning books they can put in a...more
First age. Instead of banning books they can put in a...more
This series was quite intriguing to say the least, since I've never read books like these when it comes to erotica. I enjoyed many of the characters. Beauty, Laurent, Lexius and Tristan being my favorites.
If you aren't into erotica, or mention of what pleasure slaves endure, (i.e spanking, bondage, and consent or lack there of) these books probably aren't for you.
If you aren't into erotica, or mention of what pleasure slaves endure, (i.e spanking, bondage, and consent or lack there of) these books probably aren't for you.
Jun 06, 2013Kayla Lords rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I have wanted to read this series for years, but since I could never find it in the library (the joys of living in an ultra conservative area), I never had the chance until recently.
The style was a bit simplistic, until I realized that it was an adaptation of a fairy tale - essentially a children's story - and then I found the style quite appropriate. There were no judgments or opinions given on the topic of slaves or submission, and each character found their own way in the world of full submis...more
Oct 31, 2007AdamThe style was a bit simplistic, until I realized that it was an adaptation of a fairy tale - essentially a children's story - and then I found the style quite appropriate. There were no judgments or opinions given on the topic of slaves or submission, and each character found their own way in the world of full submis...more
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Shelves: annerice
I have finished book one, 'The Claiming of Beauty', in 2 days. I just couldn't put it down. I have never read anything like this trillogy, and probably never will again. It's labled as 'literary erocita', but is bassically all the most horrible sexual situations you can think of.
I'm about half way through book 2, and at first I thought that Beauty was being used aginst her will, but now I am not so sure. She's more than willing to please, while trying to tell herself she is rebellious. If you wa...more
I'm about half way through book 2, and at first I thought that Beauty was being used aginst her will, but now I am not so sure. She's more than willing to please, while trying to tell herself she is rebellious. If you wa...more
May 10, 2013Παναγιώτα Τσιμπαλίδη rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
An extravagant, tantalizing read full of over-the-top sexual scenes of the most hardcore persuasion, but also full of a very honest and remarkably insightful study in mentality for the protagonists involved, that I found utterly interesting and well-shaped. The whole trilogy leans by far on the hyperbole, but I took this from the beginning as intentional and didn't mind a bit. The setting also seemed deliberately dreamy and fairy-tale like in all three books and that just added to the dramatic c...more
WARNING FOLKS: This is ADULT BDSM SEXUAL fantasy and could be shocking to those not familiar with the genre or lifestyle. It's not the best writing in the world, either. Only pick this series up if you are looking for some unique BDSM smut! Anne Rice fans beware... this is not her usual fare!
It'd be a interesting project for someone (not me) to note exactly how many times Beauty gets spanked in this and the rest of the series! And she's not the only one! Naughty, naughty, naughty... whack, whac...more
It'd be a interesting project for someone (not me) to note exactly how many times Beauty gets spanked in this and the rest of the series! And she's not the only one! Naughty, naughty, naughty... whack, whac...more
these naughty little books are an interesting read. They are erotica, so know that if you choose to read them- Anne Rice certainly had a dirty little mind at one point- for which I think she's trying to atone, now that she's re-embraced her Catholic faith and started writing about Jesus... These books are the kind that I don't mind that my sister's read them (which she has) but I would die if I knew my mother read them (which I'm praying she hasn't!!!)
** I read these as separate editions, probab...more
** I read these as separate editions, probab...more
I have read this series like 10 times. It is by far the best erotic series I have ever read. Now, if you are a virgin and super pure, this is NOT the series for you. I have to say that this is not The Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that you are used to. Ann Rice made this more adult. Now, I will not tell you the what happened in this series. I will tell you if you want to read something naughty, this is it!!
Jan 13, 2014Kimberly Filiatrault-Bateau rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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Dec 02, 2012Don Juan Quixote rated it it was amazing
My daughter and step daughter were passing these books back and forth, so I finally snagged the first one in the series to see what all the excitement was.
After the first chapter my head was buzzing and I was so fascinated that I could not put it down. It made me realize how exciting public humiliation of a woman was to me. It was frightening to realize, and yet I felt like it was a breakthrough to know...Amazing work...This woman is a genius!!
After the first chapter my head was buzzing and I was so fascinated that I could not put it down. It made me realize how exciting public humiliation of a woman was to me. It was frightening to realize, and yet I felt like it was a breakthrough to know...Amazing work...This woman is a genius!!
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