The Sleeping Beauty Novels: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty / Beauty's Release / Beauty's Punishment |
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| Title: | The Sleeping Beauty Novels: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty / Beauty's Release / Beauty's Punishment |
| Author: | A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rice |
| Publisher: | Plume |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 May, 1999 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0452156610 / 9780452156616 |
| List Price: | $45.00 |
| You Save: | $15.30 |
| Amazon Price: | $29.70 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.
Amazon.com Review
Anne Rice casts her lurid gaze upon the the traditional tale of "Sleeping Beauty" under the pen name of A.N. Roquelaure. Her re-telling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Reminiscent of the charged erotica of her novel Belinda.
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Customer Reviews:
• Great Books!
26 February, 2010
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this set of books. I have read them so much over the last ten years that I am on my 3rd set. The story is steamy HOT HOT HOT, but at the same time it is a really good read.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Definitely Fetish Fiction
22 February, 2010
These books are pretty clearly fetish fiction, so if you like spanking and corporal punishment, they're probably going to appeal to you. If you don't, then they're going to read as dull at best and bizarre at worst. The story is pretty straightforward, and it's an interesting and occasionally dark retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, complete with rape, spanking, humiliation, and so on. I think there's a reason for all this buried deep in the story line somewhere, but it's hard to find.
Of course, if you're reading these to get turned on, that probably doesn't matter. They're very naughty, and in places very funny, though that may just be me; if you read them with a sense of humor, it definitely helps.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Beautiful And Brutal
18 February, 2010
I loved this series. It's a no-apologies, raw, sexually explicit series of Anne Rice quality. It keeps you heart racing and your mind reeling from cover to cover. This series isn't for everyone. Enjoy!
- Amazon Customer Review
• More Than Just Sex
11 March, 2010
The set is the only thing I have ever read by Anne Rice, and the only erotica books I have ever read. I have told maybe one or two other people that I have read the series, because it just does not match up with my "good girl" persona, and it resulted in the shocked expression I was expecting. Why would I read such an abomination? One part boredom, one part fairy tale superfan, and three parts secret naughty indulgence/curiousity (one for each book) - I found the books at a slow point while working at a bookstore, and sneakily read them at the customer service desk when I had nothing else to do.
In the first book, Beauty is awakened from her hundred-year sleep with a deflowering by the Prince. He takes her to his kingdom, where she is trained as a sexual slave and plaything, but she fails to be obedient, so is sent to brutal slavery in the neighboring village. In the second book, she is sold at auction and a power struggle ensues as she refuses to be completely broken by her various punishments. Actual plotline wanes in this one until towards the end some of the psychological aspects of sexual slavery are explored before Beauty is kidnapped for a Sultan. In the third book, the various characters all reach closure in varying forms as the sexual aspects of the plot take on a more religious and philosophical tone, as opposed to the crudity of the European castle and village. By the end of the series, it felt more like I was reading a study of a lifestyle for the education and not so much for the indulgence.
The sexual scenes are extremely explicit and graphic with the theme of sado-masochism replete throughout the text, but amazingly, there is still a plotline and decent character development. The first book was my favorite of the three, simply because that is the only book of the three that actually uses the fairy tale in its plotline, and by the third book much of the sex seemed vaguely repetitive and did not affect me as intensely as it did in the beginning. I would even dare to recommend it to those who are of the appropriate age.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Waste Of Time And Money
29 January, 2010
I first of all must say that this is my first time reading any books by Anne Rice. Now since tht is out of the way, time for my review. I did not enjoy reading these books. I read all three in hopes that they would get better. I found out quickly that they did not get better as I progressed. All of the chapters are very repeptative, someone being spanked,abused and or humiliated in some kind of way. There was no explaination as to why Beauty and all the other princes and princesses were made to be so called pleasure slaves. What the "training" was for and how it was suppose to make them better. I understand that this was suppose to be a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story but the whole story was implausible. In short do not waste your time and or money.
- Amazon Customer Review
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