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Riley Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Anne Rice's Part Three In Her BDSM Series Entitled Beauty's Release
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2019
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Be warned this is part three of Anne Rice's erotica series centered around Sleeping Beauty. It's an original world setup as a period piece. It's filled with hardcore erotica, but she writes it extremely well and each character is developed with backstory and she leads on the path that their life will take within her world of Sleeping Beauty. This book focuses on the three main characters: Princess Beauty, Prince Tristan and Prince Laurant as they are kidnapped by a Sultan and taken by ship to a foreign land. By the end of the story, each has met and found their destiny. They are taken back to the originating kingdom that they are stolen from. These books are not the the reader seeking a happily ever after Rom-Com, but they are a very interesting tale and a story that is filled with a lot of twists and turns.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Anne Rice's Part Three In Her BDSM Series Entitled Beauty's Release
By Riley Rose on September 6, 2019
Be warned this is part three of Anne Rice's erotica series centered around Sleeping Beauty. It's an original world setup as a period piece. It's filled with hardcore erotica, but she writes it extremely well and each character is developed with backstory and she leads on the path that their life will take within her world of Sleeping Beauty. This book focuses on the three main characters: Princess Beauty, Prince Tristan and Prince Laurant as they are kidnapped by a Sultan and taken by ship to a foreign land. By the end of the story, each has met and found their destiny. They are taken back to the originating kingdom that they are stolen from. These books are not the the reader seeking a happily ever after Rom-Com, but they are a very interesting tale and a story that is filled with a lot of twists and turns.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Anne' Rice erotica
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2014
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This form of writing from Anne Rice was totally unexpected, but she did it well. It is erotica with a clear story woven throughout all three books. It is about love vs lust vs desire vs servitude played out in a fantasy kingdom where the royal people become the slaves of the commoners for a few years.

In book 3 the final book, Princess Beauty, Prince Tristan and Prince Laurant find themselves bound and gagged on board a ship headed for yet another kingdom. kidnapped by a Sultan during one of their slave raids they are chosen as being the best of the Princesses and Princes being held by the Queen. Plunged into fearful new experiences the three try to stay together. They serve the Sultan and as they start to find they are enjoying the experience and develop new interests inside the castle the three find themselves wrapped in carpets and taken away yet again. By the close of the book all three have found their destiny's.

WARNING: In the forward Rice does warn that most every page is filled with graphic sex, so be advised. if this is not your cup of tea, pass it by.
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MaryAnn Turner
3.0 out of 5 stars Sick and twisted
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2014
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I am a pretty open minded individual but this series delved to far down the dark road for me. I felt these books, each one more horrific than the last, were more about learning to endure physical pain. I did not find most of the description to be erotic in any way. I found these books to be about torture and not eroticism. These books left me feeling queasy and unsatisfied... mentally unsatisfied. I could not find the deeper meaning of the torture.. I could not find love.. I found only sickness and insanity.
I love Ann Rice Novels; She is a master storyteller with a true gift but these books..
Comparing 50 Shades of Grey to these books is like comparing Sesame Street to Steven Hawking!
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Amaxin_Addict
5.0 out of 5 stars Ruined me for other books
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2012
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After finishing 50 Shades of Gray series I wasn't sure where to turn after that great read so I followed the suggestion of other Amazon reviews and read this series. This is the third and final book in the series it is vital that you actually read the series in order. The first being The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty then this book and the third bring Beauty's Release. This book is very strong erotic. I would say way stronger than 50 Shades of Gray. If you're comfortable reading a BDSM book with three ways, lesbian and gay sex scenes then this is the book for you. I like that because it is a 3 books Anne Rice does take the time to develop the characters so you feel you get to know everyone. My only problem now is what to read because few books I've ever read can compare to this series. If you're looking for smoking hot erotica then this is definitely the series for you.

Anne Rice please write more books like this series!!
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Cindy...The Great
4.0 out of 5 stars Erotic, dangerous, even frightening -- and amazingly good
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2013
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This is the third in the series -- read the other two in order, first. Things will make MUCH more sense. The story continuing over the three books has several layers. The top layer is clearly the sex. And the sex is both fascinating and repulsive. Which is the point of the second layer: where does my personal erotic-o-meter change from Hot to Frightening? Now I know. The next layer involves the reader as spectator, watching a train wreck in progress. It's huge and awful, and that's why we can't turn away. A deeper layer explores the characters' motivations. Who just wants to experience everything, and who is looking for a specific experience? How does the dominant/submissive dynamic switch, and why?

And throughout the layers is the question, How does Rice/Roquelaure know about this stuff?

RECOMMENDATIONS: If you're looking for intense BDSM, read this series. If you're deeply interested in character motivation and decision-making, read this series. If you like erotica, buy only the first book and get it used, just in case. If you prefer The-curtain-closed-and-time-passed literature, skip these books.
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Jskinz
2.0 out of 5 stars I thought I ordered something a little less rapey...
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2012
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Beauty is back, and like any 15 year old her love is fickle. The Prince that saved her, who? She is so over Alexi, and out of the blue mad for Tristan. She and Tristan have been sent to the village outside the Castle where servitude is worse and rape and humiliation are even more rampant. The book is about 250 pages and 50 of them are actual story. The other 200 pages are graphic sex scene's of hardcore BDSM. I wish one or two of them were actually be hot and not so rapey. Can someone please explain to me how no one get's pregnant? There are all these healthy teenage girls have unprotected sex and they are being ejaculated inside of. And don't even get me started on STD's? I didn't like this book, but I will see the trilogy through. The first one was ok, maybe the third time is the charm.
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AJ
1.0 out of 5 stars This really could have been one book as repetitive as this story is.
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2018
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Slightly better than the other two books but still so very boring. The slaves are still miserable. The Masters here have some new tricks finally but still follow the same basic format. I don't even care what happens to any of these people at this point.
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CFive
1.0 out of 5 stars DRIVEL
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2021
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Really can't remember why I ended up with this, may have clicked on the wrong thing or a certain party may have been responsible. Anyway, it's porn and from what I could tell pretty poor porn at that. Only read a little so my review might not do the book full justice, it might be absolute rubbish, however, as I deleted from my Kindle reader I'm in the happy position of never knowing :-)
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RDV
5.0 out of 5 stars Erotica at it's best
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2017
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Just when you think that the tale of Beauty and her fellow slaves can't get any more intense, it does. Now they are captured by slavers, who take them to a Sultan's harem, and I was enthralled by the depths of the author's erotic imagination. A great series. Erotica at it's best.
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S
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2020
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Great. Arrived quickly and was exactly as described. many thanks.
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Sal
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint hearted
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2014
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Oh my goodness, I loved this book, this series so much! I have to admit I was a bit worried that this final book would be a let down but no, it was fabulous and it left me with a huge smile on my face. Again it's not for the faint hearted but it was (in my opinion) so flipping beautiful!
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5.0 out of 5 stars sad to reach the last of the three
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2013
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Anne Rice is one of my favourite authors however she didn't put her name to this trilogy for many years because of the genre but she needn't have worried they are fabulous books and so much more than your average mummy porn (sorry mr grey) These are books for women rather than girls and they definitely dont disappoint
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