The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty)

by A.N. Roquelaure

Step beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies...When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome kingdom of love. Beauty she is - but she is sleeping no more...

• ISBN10: 1440664528
• ISBN13: 9781440664526
• Publish Date: 1 May 1999 (first published 1 March 1983)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Out of Print: 11 April 2013
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Plume Books
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Haters to the left. This is a classic.

(Best read in small doses, though. All at once, it’s… a lot.)

[inlibrisveritas]

A Pages of Desire review

Oh how I wanted this to be the pinnacle of all erotica...I mean I adore Anne Rice. I've devoted so much time to her books and after holding off fo so long I finally decided to 'treat' myself to her erotic novels. So many people recommended them to me, and told me they were brilliant. And i find myself shocked to say that I really didn't like this...

The story itself held promise, I do love re-tellings...but it kind of just feel flat after awhile. Much of the 'erotic' scenes felt very repeated and unoriginal after about the fourth time. Only some instances were even remotely steamy. I will say that the beginning immediately put me in a bad mood, I don't like actual rape. It's not sexy, it's down right cruel. That being sad I think this was far too much BDSM for my taste, and my tolerance for it is fairly high. It's so constant that it looses it's spice and just comes off as people being completely jerks all the time. I mean a little here and there is what keeps it sexy, but all the time? I would call that being beaten. I can't even tell you how many times I read the word "spanked", but I can tell you that I'm utterly sick of it.

I was surprised at the lack of true creativity in this story, sure there are some things that made me raise an eyebrow or two, but overall it's just a repeat of the same things in different combinations. I was even more surprised at what others have called "elegant prose", to me it was simple and forced. The details that she's famous for are there but not with the same elegance that I'm use to. I know there is some depth when it comes to how this lifestyle affects Beauty, but after awhile I just didn't care anymore.

I truly struggled to get through this. If you enjoy hardcore BDSM then you might like this, also if you like there to be a psychological factor involved.

[Melanie]

This is the first true erotica books I have ever read. I have read all of Anne Rice's vampire and witch books. I have read a lot of paranormal romance books that have more than their fair share of sex. I thought that this might bring together some of the sex I had read in those books and I really liked Anne Rice's writing style. I thought I would give these a try.

There is a good plot that goes with this story, it is not all just sex. Some people are saying BDSM, but I am not sure about that. In this book, there is no safe word and it is not consensual. I truly believe that there are things that are done, that people in the real world would not survive either emotionally or physically.

I am not sure exactly how much I like this book. They are a truly another world. I am going to get the next book and see where it goes from there.