Niloniak's Full Review: A.N. Roquelaure - Sleeping Beauty Novels
There are so many things that are so, SO bad about these books, it is almost hard to know where to start.
Basically, if you have not already figured it out, the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy is about Beauty, who is awakened by the Prince having sex with her and carried away to have sex and be spanked for three more books. The most interesting thing about these books is not the sex, which is repetitive and dull (I was actually skipping over the sex in a mad, desperate search for a plot), or the characters, they are all interchangeable, or even the premise, which disappears immediately. The most interesting thing about these books is that someone actually published them. Astonishing.
Rice, who has demonstrated the vividness other imagination and creative powers in such a memorable way in the past, falls horribly short here. This trilogy fails to present anything that would keep a reader interested - at least Exit to Eden had an actual plot.
While I applaud Rice's efforts to create an homage to what is obviously a personal fascination, I am appalled at how poorly she achieves it. I can't imagine even the prurient minded finding these books capable of holding their attention.
General Fiction - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty : Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure. In the traditional folk tale Sleeping Beauty, the spell cas...More at Barnes and Noble
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