The Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice

Last night I finally finished reading the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice.

Anne Rice has written some amazing books, but she also sometimes writes 20 pages about a tree, how the tree looks in the dark, how the tree folds out against the moon light, how the trees branches stretch out into the night to consume the darkness around it….and so on. When I picked up the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, it was only on a recommendation, and the recommendation was a good one.

Unlike her Lestat series, these books have nothing to do with Vampires or the supernatural really, but instead a twisted version of the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty is awaken from her slumber, not by a kiss, but instead by…how should I say it…pleasure, ecstasy, sex…or should I just be blunt, rape, by a Prince.

The Prince takes Beauty back to his land (on agreement from her parents) and forces her into slavery. Not slavery in the terms of working for no pay in the fields all day, but as a sex slave. At first she is tormented and in awe by her treatment, and of princes and princesses from other lands, but soon she breaks and come to love it, crave it, and need it.

The Sleeping Beauty trilogy brings every sexual fantasy to the forefront from simple whips and chains to pony play and rape. It pushes every sexual desire to the limit, no matter what fantasy you have heard of, read about, thought of, or not thought of. I can see why originally the book was published under a sudo name, because it shocks you!

The plot, even if you have no interest in reading an erotic fantasy is actually interesting, even with the few Anne Rice moments of spending to much time on a minor detail.

Beauty it taken to the land of her Prince and savoir and she learns to become a “good” sex slave and she is content until she hears about a village, where “bad” slaves who displease their masters sexual are sent. Beauty becomes fascinated with this village and decides to break the rules so she can go there to experience new forms of sexual pleasure and torture, because as I mentioned before, she has gown to enjoy and crave it!

I do not want to give away the story. I have been told off a number of times for revealing too much J (yes, that was just for you chica) so instead I will stop there….stop before the plot really thickens, I will not tell you what becomes of Beauty. But I did really enjoy the ending, it was not the ending I was expecting, but somehow knew that it had to end that way.

Now I have to move onto a new book, not an erotic fantasy this time…I think I will go with what is always good, zombies!