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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, Book 1

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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Samantha Prescott, Corbin Steele
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From best-selling author Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure, 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 100 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.

©1983 A. N. Roquelaure (P)2013 HarperCollins Publishers
Fantasy Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction

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load of crap

I'm very open minded, but this was ridiculous and a waste of my credit, same crap each chapter. definitely won't complete series

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I am open-minded, but even this was too much!

I have never ever not completed a book, but I just couldn't get through this. It's just.....wrong! I am a very open-minded person and have never averted my eyes (or ears) to anything controversial, but this is very hard to listen to, So much sexual abuse and very rapey.

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Awful

Demeaning. Lacked any sense of humanity, intelligence or empathy. I wanted to return this item but have not been allowed to, which disappoints. I did not even want to give it the one star.

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beautiful story well written and read

love, it's a great take on sleeping beauty with a very interesting twist it's very good

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Belittleing, humiliation and discomfort

If the 3 words on the title of the review excite you then this book is for you.

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Don’t bother reading

Absolute trash. Did not finish it. Horrible writing and disgusting content. I kept waiting for it to get better and to actually have a story line but it didn’t come.

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Not everyone's cup of tea

You have to have certain extreme kinks and likes for this story. if you do, you'll love it. if you don't, it will offend and horrify you. Be warned it's heavy bdsm erotica. I loved it. I've read them all and listened to them all. If you're not in the bdsm scene then do not get these books.

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Vile!

Non stop RAPE, Disgusting! I wish I'd never listened to such vile content. I wish i could get my money back on this dehumanization of people. It wasn't just rate in was torture.

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