A.N. Roquelaure - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

Pros: um... hmmm... It didn't take that long to read?
Cons: utterly banal erotica with no character development.

My husband, knowing that I am a huge Anne Rice fan, purchased the three-book Sleeping Beauty trilogy by A.M. Roquelaure, which, as everyone who hasn't been living under a rock is aware, was actually written by Anne Rice. These three books are ...

Pros: well written erotica, stimulating and arousing
Cons: alternative sexuality themes (dominance, pain, homosexuality, etc.) possibly not for every reader's taste

Written by Anne Rice, under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure, "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" is part one in an erotic trilogy which explores sexuality in an explicit, and for many, unfamiliar manner. These books are meant as an "adult fairy tale" and...

Pros: very sensual, excellent writing style
Cons: highly graphic sexual descriptions, NOT suitable for minors

Okay, standard disclaimer time. This book is of a HIGHLY adult nature, and this review will be too. So if you are under 18, easily offended, fanatically moralistic, or a member of the Religious Right.. don't read this review. You won't like it.. and it...

Pros: Good in small doses. Anne Rice shows her inventiveness, and descriptive powers.
Cons: Poor characterizations. Too much hype.

For many years, my friends and I would rent a cabin in a state forest during Christmas break for a short mid-winter vacation. Somehow, it was decided one year that I would share the fold out bed in the living room /kitchen with the new girl, who was a...

Pros: Exciting, easy to read, captivating, great play on an old tale
Cons: Too sexually graphic for certain ages, you need to keep buying the series to get to the end

Yep, I was so hot after reading "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" that I took many a cold shower. Ok, not really, but the book was quite exciting and tittilating on many fronts. In other words, it was the type of book that you cannot put...

Pros: Interesting idea of Sleeping Beauty; a few good characters
Cons: ultimately, characters are discarded for sex; too much spanking, it's just not erotic

Anne Rice has quite a following for her vampire series novels and for her witch series. She has also written such
erotic books as "Exit to Eden" and "Belinda" under the name
Anne Rampling. In 1983, once she had attained a much wider
fan...

Pros: Imaginative, classy, well-written, likable charactors
Cons: VERY hardcore, a bit repetative at times

OH MY! Leave it to the illustrious Mrs. Rice to touch on subjects that most writers would not touch with a ten-foot pole! I specify "writers" here; not trash-mongers who churn out volumes of low-class, horribly written books and mass-market...

Pros: Excellent Writing. Truly Erotic.
Cons: None at all!!!!

Anne Rice is one of today's best known writers for her fabulous Vampire Chronicles, but she is also great at writing a wide variety of other books. "The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty" is one of those books. This book marks the beginning of an...

Pros: Great twist on a classic fairytale.
Cons: Sometimes hard to find in Bookstores

Beautiful, wonderful, erotic, and dripping. Four words that pop right into my mind when I think of Anne Rice's Beauty trilogy. The first one being "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty". A few months ago, I ordered the books on tape.

I...

Pros: Can flip to any page and find sex
Cons: Sex is boring, trite, lukewarm at best.

I have been an Anne Rice reader for a few years. I'm not a fanatic, but I've enough of a writer's sense to pick up another author's style and take a good, long, hard look at new works. I bought the book through Double-Day book club for $0.20 so I was ...

Pros: Plot, writing style, characters and lots of sex
Cons: Strong sexual content.

Forget the Story of O. Even if you haven't read The Story of O forget I even mentioned it. Anne Rice's compelling, sensual, sexual tale of what "really" happened to Sleeping Beauty will take you to places that you've never been before.
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Pros: An interesting idea
Cons: Repetitive

A friend gave me the book to read, and of course my first question when it was handed to me was "Is it full of blood and Vampires?".
The answer to that is no, which may have improved the story. I really expected to find an enthralling story about...

Pros: Captivating
Cons: It ends!

This book was one of the best....and certainly most stimulating books by Anne Rice that I have read. I read it cover to cover in less than two days. I'm not sure it is something you could check out from your local library, but if you can get your hands...

Pros: none
Cons: the whole tome bit it

This was more like a sadistic second-rate spankfest from our surreal and fascinating author Anne. She should stick with orror and get the heel out of this sticky--hee hee--genre, because let me tell you, Lestat's escapades captured my attention far...

Pros: Sensual and enchanting
Cons: Definitely not for everyone.

The first in the Beauty Trilogy, by Anne Rice, sets the pace for this erotic adventure. The thoughts and emotions of the main character, Beauty, are seductively written. Not only do you almost feel your there, you almost wish you were.
Beauty is...