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Aug 03, 2011
Chazza Everafter
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Fascinating and transformative. I tried to read this book when I was younger, and I was so overwhelmed (and appalled) by its contents that I had to put it down. It recently came up in conversation and I was convinced to attempt to read it again. This time around, I found a great degree of appreciation for the reworking of this fairy tale. Instead of appalling, the story was imaginative, lush, and almost hypnotic. The world was entirely foreign, and the gradual change in Beauty was captivating to
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It's a new way for presenting the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, from the beginning till the end it is quite different; the only similarity is that the prince awakens Sleeping beauty from her 100 year slumber.. how he wakes her and what happens next is a completely different story.
It's a quick read since you don't need to think or analyze or solve anything, the idea is that this prince and his mother the queen take in princes and princesses from around the world to discipline them in self contro ...more
It's a quick read since you don't need to think or analyze or solve anything, the idea is that this prince and his mother the queen take in princes and princesses from around the world to discipline them in self contro ...more
This was a reread for me. I first read these in high school, when any sex scene in a book was an amazing revelation. At that time, I devoured this series. Now, as a more choosy erotica reader, I found this much more ho hum than I remembered. The folks in this book never really seem to be having much fun. It's all tears and ridiculousness. IIRC, the series does improve, but I don't think I have the energy to read the rest of the books again.
Also, this is unabashedly pornographic and not for the p ...more
Also, this is unabashedly pornographic and not for the p ...more
I really wanted to like this book since I think Anne Rice is an excellent writer, but it was so boring and crude to me that I couldn't even bring myself to finish the book.
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Dec 12, 2020
Natalya
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