You won't get much depth here in the way of spice, but I think that's the point especially considering Rice's use of the fairy tale-esque language. The crux of this story is Beauty finding herself, owning herself. Throughout the entire book I kept thinking: this has to get better for this girl, and it does, sort of. BUT, Sleeping Beauty is "sexually awakened" in the most violent of ways and eventually finds agency in owning her sexuality after the most ridiculous sexual humiliation and abuse, making the story, as a whole, a little easier to swallow. This is VIOLENT, ABUSIVE, BDSM erotica, which is definitely not appealing to me, might be for others - definitely not my jam.
Third, I will be finishing the series but I need to mentally prepare myself. Just know that this isn't your run-of-the-mill read.
Second, the writing style is that of a fairy tale its a literary device here and it works. I felt the need to prepare myself for what was inside. First off, I read lots of reviews about this book prior to reading. People seem to have very strong feelings about this book, me included. My face was painted with a look of horror and disgust at every turn of the page. It was like a train wreck that you can't look away from but still feel icky looking at. at once so light and yet so haunting.This book simultaneously terrified and enraptured me. "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." - Playboy Praise for The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice’s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come. as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. In the first book of the trilogy, Anne Rice (author of Beauty's Kingdom), writing as A.N. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. 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. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, there was Anne Rice’s New York Times best seller The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
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