The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty Series - Book 1

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

By Anne Rice
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“Beginning with The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty originally released in 1983, Rice published the erotica trilogy under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaure. And let me tell you, these stories put much of today’s erotic fiction to shame with it’s super spicy heat level!”

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From bestselling author Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure. In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince reawakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him…as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.

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  1. Wade
    Overall Liked it

    One of the best fetish books ever

    One of the best fetish books ever written. Right up there with The Story of O, Anne Rice captures the essence of fetish slavery beautifully.

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  2. Flamingo
    Overall Not for me
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    Just couldn't get into it!

    This was just too hard to get into. I didn't find it erotic, just unbelievable. No fairy tale, just an excuse for one class debasing another class of human beings. Beauty just accepted her fate. No deep thinking, no resistance. I listened for about an hour and a half and just quit. This left me cold. This is the first time that I have not enjoyed Anne Rice.

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  3. penpusher
    Overall Not for me

    DO NOT TOUCH

    After the success of the 50 shades of hay, this has been released as the author tries to cash in, do not purchase please!! This is dry prose, and the sexual content is contrived and becomes tedious dull and boring, and all the characters are cardboard cutouts try and find another audio book to waste your dollars on.

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