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Title: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Author: Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure
Published: New York: Plume, 1999 (1983)
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 253
Total Page Count: 52,618
Text Number: 152
Read For: recommendation by my friend Adena & reading books about BDSM, checked out from the library
Short review: The Prince wakens Beauty from her century of sleep—and then, as his reward for saving the castle, takes her as his prize. He leads Beauty back to his kingdom, where foreign princes and princesses are trained to be sexual slaves, willingly submitting to the most "depraved" desires. The fairy tale premise strips the story of characterization and justifies an unbelievable land where Beauty and a hundred other royals undergo public and state-sanctioned humiliating display, oft-repeated spankings, and sexual encounters which never require consent. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty has a few darkly erotic moments but quickly disintegrates into repetition, and lacks character growth which might grant it some sense of purpose. I do not plan to read the sequels, and I do not recommend this book.
( Long Review. )
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
For interested readers, there is also a glorious, spoiler-and-sex heavy review by Yahtzee (of Zero Punctuation) of the entire Sleeping Beauty series. It's much funnier than my review and also entirely accurate, and I recommend it even if you never plan to read the books.
Author: Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure
Published: New York: Plume, 1999 (1983)
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 253
Total Page Count: 52,618
Text Number: 152
Read For: recommendation by my friend Adena & reading books about BDSM, checked out from the library
Short review: The Prince wakens Beauty from her century of sleep—and then, as his reward for saving the castle, takes her as his prize. He leads Beauty back to his kingdom, where foreign princes and princesses are trained to be sexual slaves, willingly submitting to the most "depraved" desires. The fairy tale premise strips the story of characterization and justifies an unbelievable land where Beauty and a hundred other royals undergo public and state-sanctioned humiliating display, oft-repeated spankings, and sexual encounters which never require consent. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty has a few darkly erotic moments but quickly disintegrates into repetition, and lacks character growth which might grant it some sense of purpose. I do not plan to read the sequels, and I do not recommend this book.
( Long Review. )
Review posted here on Amazon.com.
For interested readers, there is also a glorious, spoiler-and-sex heavy review by Yahtzee (of Zero Punctuation) of the entire Sleeping Beauty series. It's much funnier than my review and also entirely accurate, and I recommend it even if you never plan to read the books.
