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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.

Review:

"Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." The Advocate

Review:

"Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." Playboy
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About the Author

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter in an Irish Catholic family. She is the author of many bestselling books. She is perhaps best known for her incredibly successful Vampire Chronicles — Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Dammed, The Tale of the Body Thief (published in Penguin) and Memnoch the Devil. Her other books include the Mayfair witches sequence The Witching Hour, Lasher (both published in Penguin) and Taltos; the novels Cry to Heaven, The Mummy or Ramses the Damned (both published in Penguin), The Servant of the Bones and, Pandora, the first part of her New Tales of the Vampires series.

She lived for many years in San Francisco but has now moved back to her native New Orleans where she lives with her husband, poet and university professor Stan Rice, and their son.

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Candace @ LoveyDoveyBooks, September 10, 2012 (view all comments by Candace @ LoveyDoveyBooks)
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty strays far and wide from the traditional fairy tale of 'Sleeping Beauty'. Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, tells of Beauty's story from her awakening to her enslavement to the Prince in a nearby kingdom. Anne Rice says it best in her preface where she states, "Every page is about sexual fulfillment." Indeed, there isn't one boring section of the story and every page has either thoughts, or actions, of some form of intimacy.

The story is undoubtedly erotica, but not the type of story one could appropriately ascribe love to as an element of the plot. Even though the world Rice built caters to BDSM and other unusual sexual fantasies, the actions of the characters were cruel and at most times unappealing. All of the secondary characters, such as the Lords and Ladies of the court, are trying to teach Beauty that pain enhances sexual encounters and will eventually equate to the love of her master, the Prince, or anyone else in the palace taking control of her. The belief is that the love slaves will eventually leave enslavement as better leaders because of their learning self-control and other valuable traits. The underlying theme is dominance and submission, but the story's cringe-worthy depiction is somewhat loud.

The main protagonist, Beauty, is a young and apparently spoiled princess. She's so timid, scared, and soft that it's extremely hard to picture her in the environment that Rice places her in The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. In the end, though, Beauty rebels against the court's expectations of her submissiveness. Rice's method of closing the first book in the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy is certainly unexpected, but may leave readers with more of a curious, than sexual, appetite.

*Book provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review and blog tour purposes*
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xmylifex, July 21, 2011 (view all comments by xmylifex)
I love this book! Epically erotic - it has the intense sexual rawness of any quality erotic story but the author brings new depth by including the psychological and emotional aspect that goes along with a true SMBD relationship. I hated having to put this book down, if I could have I would have read the whole thing in one sitting.
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djb, July 28, 2008 (view all comments by djb)
when i bought the first book in this series i thought it would be like the rest of her book. when i realized what it was about i found how talented rice is. this series is as good as the vampire and witches series. the titles are perfect for the stories
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780452281424
Author:
Anne Rice as A. N. Roquelaure
Publisher:
Plume Books
Other:
Roquelaure, A. N.
Author:
Roquelaure, A. N.
Author:
Rice, Anne
Location:
New York, N.Y. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Subject:
Sex
Subject:
Erotica
Subject:
Erotic stories
Subject:
Sleeping beauty (fictitious character: roquel
Subject:
Erotica - General
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
1983
Series:
Sleeping Beauty
Series Volume:
no. 512-513
Publication Date:
19990531
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8.01x4.76x.80 in. .46 lbs.
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