The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure

The only issue she has with this new life she how to control the desire she is now feeling for the first time. Beauty meanwhile doesn’t feel victimized or forced but rather she is becoming aware of her own desires and wants to please the Prince in any way she can although she is struggling to separate her old life from her new one but seems content with the life she has.

We see the Prince punish Beauty on different occasions, some of these punishments are for her transgressions against the Prince’s rules and some are for the Prince’s own amusement. In this world, sexual slaves are very common, and no one is stunned by the things the Prince commands of Beauty like being naked all the time and satisfying him whenever he demands it, but it seems built into the women of the land to be submissive to the men. They have a few encounters before leaving her Kingdom before they travel back to his, but we do learn a lot about this world. At that moment the Kingdom awakens and by the laws of this land Beauty now belongs to the Prince to do as he pleases with her and he intends to make her his Princess, which equals being his slave. Up until this point, it follows the same story as the fairytale, but he doesn’t wake Beauty with a kiss, he wakes her by taking her innocence. This opens with a young Prince attempting to free Beauty from her curse and even as he passes the skeletons of those who have tried before him he doesn’t believe in the curse until he sees the bodies of the courtiers frozen in time and eventually comes across Beauty herself and he is stunned by her beauty. Roquelaure is a pseudonym of Anne Rice who wrote the Vampire Chronicles, but this is very different from her other works as this is an erotic retelling of the classic fairytale sleeping beauty. Review: Most people will already know that A. Title: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Beauty #1)

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure