The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

The First of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Genvieve Bevier, Winthrop Eliot

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Don't miss any of the books in Anne Rice's Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty.

©1999 A.N. Roquelaure (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

A very unlikely prince

We all know our fairytales- from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to Beauty and the Beast- which is why it's so hard for modern writers to get past that invisible barrier of rewriting them. I'd say Anne Rice completed a very challenging task, and I admire her courage as a writer for that. But I think I'd stick to vampires in the future!

I guess is you have nothing else...

Based on recommendations online, I downloaded this book. It was uh, oh, what’s the word I’m looking for… awful. I had started listening to it and actually stopped soon after. I have endured some pretty horrible audiobooks but I found something better to listen to. Well, I decided to give it another try and finished it this time.

So I’m not at all into BDSM in my real life but I sure as heck love “reading/listening” about it. But good heavens, all the spanking drove me crazy. There are 2 more books so I guess If I have nothing else to listen to maybe I can hope the story gets better?

I wouldn't waste a good credit though...

Got boring quickly - too much spanking

The book started off good but then just fell into a routine. Nubile captive is taken to this room where she is spanked and humiliated. Then taken off to meet this person...where she is spanked. Goes to her room to sleep but not before she is spanked. Next day taken outside where a woman on a horse chases her around with a long paddle and, you guessed it, spanks her some more.

It's just not hot.

not a spanking good time

I was unsure about getting an abridged novel I do not think i will be getting any more any time soon! I feel I wasted my credit with this one. I didnt realize before I purchased this one that it was only 4 hours long. I will not be continuing the series. For being a bondage series I thought this was going to be way hotter. it was like the author thinks the only aspect of bonage is spanking and humility...there is so much more to it than spanking. This book wasnt very sexy and hoped for a lot more than it was. completly disappointed.

well......um..........huh?

I am struggling to find the right words to review this audiobook. The author took an interesting plot idea and turned it into a really sad look at Stockholm Syndrome. Sleeping Beauty isn't swept off her feet, she's kidnapped, abused and downright pitiful. But, I......guess...........she.........kind.......of ..........likes it? I'm all for getting down and dirty and being rough around all kinds of edges, but this was beyond that. I tried- I really did. I wanted to like it, but it just made me feel really weird. And, not in a good way.

Best out of 3

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

The first book was exciting, even got me hot here and there. But as it progressed, some of the stories became gruesome to a point of wanting to skip parts. I guess if u r into horse dress up and rape, u would like it...but at least there was a plot to the whole thing at the end and it finished nice. I would not read anything similar again...

Would you be willing to try another book from Anne Rice? Why or why not?

No, I didn't really like the narrating voices. She sounds sounds old and it's weird to have her talk about throbbing sex (vagina) and organ (penis), it's like grandma talking dirty - yuck. She also sounds creepy in my ways. And the guys voice is annoying, and too feminine and slow.

Have you listened to any of Genvieve Bevier and Winthrop Eliot ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Both voices are not to my liking.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No, sick stories with rape so severe I don't know how the anus was not ripped into shreds.

Any additional comments?

Too sick for me, way past the point of a hot story.

pretty erotic

I felt dirty at first reading it, but it was intriguing and not like anything else I've read.

Not good t all.

What did you like about this audiobook?

I did not like this book at all. To have people crawling around on their hands and knees
Did not appeal to me at all. This was not as good as fifty shades of gray at.

Dark Erotica

This is not a book for the easily blushed. The story is dark but keeps moving. You can understand the transformation of it's characters to who they become and how they become that way. I found that more interesting then the erotica. Well written.

Decent

The story is interesting but the narrator is rather bland and definitely doesn't do it justice