A beautifully designed boxed set of erotica by the bestselling author. Rice's enormously successful "Beauty" books are based very loosely on the Sleeping Beauty tale, and explore just about every sexually explicit fantasy imaginable. "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic".--Playboy.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. Special Offer until June 30, 2013: Receive an additional £5 promotional Gift Certificate, when you trade-in at least £10 worth of books. Learn more. |
Book Description
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
For an adult who likes fantasy and erotic literature, this is truly the series of choice. I have never read such a colorful and well written work of this nature. Anne is an expert at expressing the nuances of the characters and settings in this series, and really fuels the imagination with her writing style. Not a read for the weak-at-heart, but for those who can appreciate something much more than your everyday sex story. It is so unusual for a sexual fantasy to be written in such a colorful way and taken beyond anything you could have expected, (into novel form) but if you are open to reading this unique trilogy, you will wonder why more adult fiction of this caliber is not available, and will wish that more would be written!
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Sleeping Beauty awakens to find Prince Charming is taking her to his castle not to make her his wife but take her through an adventure which makes her subject to the whims of the countless inhabitants of his castle. Her adventures continue when she visits the local village in the second novel and is abducted and taken to a Sultan's castle in the third. But in the end her greatest adventure is finding true love.
I read all three of Ann Rice's Sleeping Beauty novel's, and almost every other book she's ever written. I loved her other books because of the sensual, erotic way in which she writes. When I bought the trilogy, I never imagined I would encounter the best erotic fiction I have ever read. I loved the Trilogy. I would highly recommend it to anyone with an open mind, however if you are not, then read at your own risk.
40 of 43 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
as someone who works in an adult store, i've seen my fair share of erotica. i've seen the repetative, boring movies. i've read the flimsy fiction in mags. but it wasn't until i read these books that i realised how erotic erotica could be!
so they're not for the faint-hearted, (if the idea of bondage puts you off, maybe read something else). this is no wishy-washy, rose-tinted tale! this is an honest, laid bare look at the most primal of our desires.
the story follows Beauty through her 'development' from girl to woman. we feel her pleasure, her desire, her frustration, her lust... and all the while the book is peppered with fantastic imagery of locations, of people, (and of gizmos).
like sleeping beauty, open your eyes to the world for the first time. read these books and never look back!
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I read mixed reviews about the book, but decided to chance it and I have to say it was most definitely worth it. If you're not a fan of submission and bondage in books and lots of spanking lots and lots of spanking then the books not for you. But if you want intelligent erotica that sensually explores the nature of submission then do buy it. Its not about D/S relationships, and if you're looking for something of that nature you won't find it. It's a fairytale fantasy about the whims of the Lords and Ladies and the auction at the village, and a different nature of slavery under the sultan. I highly recommend it, if you're unsure try reading reviews at amazon.com the US site there are a lot more and I found them highly useful.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By S. Hapgood
VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
There is so much really really BAD erotica around, stuff that commits the ultimate cardinal sin, (in this type of thing), of being BORING, that Anne Rice's trilogy will make a refreshing change for a lot of people. Basically she takes the Sleeping Beauty legend and revamps it for the S&M brigade, and it works very well. Rice is such a skilled writer that the places she writes about in these stories, such as the Queen's palace, the village, and the Sultan's lair all beautifully come to life. I've knocked off a star though for a number of reasons, one is that Beauty herself is a completely vacuous and irritating character (Rice herself apparently got bored with her as the series went on, and focussed more on the other characters instead), it is hard to believe that even someone into submission for pleasure would placidly submit to all the indignities heaped on her here, though perhaps that's just me being naive. (In fact I'm pretty sure it is!). And there are some really stupid absurdities, such as one of the male characters trying to win his mistress's approval by turning himself effectively into a performing circus animal, I found it quite funny that even Beauty lost a lot of interest in him after he had told her all that he'd done! And some of it just goes on far too long. But these lapses are compensated for by some very good stuff indeed. A bit of classy well-written soft porn for a change.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Marleen
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
This review comes with a "for adults only" warning.
Few people will be unfamiliar with the fairytale in which a beautiful princess has to sleep for 100 years before a handsome prince will come to awaken her.
And that is pretty much how this story starts, except that the handsome prince doesn't awaken the beautiful princess with a kiss but by taking her virginity.
The next day the prince tells Beauty and her parents that he is claiming the princess and will take her to his mother's kingdom for training. Although the king and queen object initially they allow the prince to take their daughter with him after they are reminded how they themselves had been trained there and how they had benefitted from it.
For Beauty this is the start of an ordeal. She is stripped naked and made to travel with the prince like that, on full view of everybody they encounter. She is also often and ferociously spanked and slapped, both in private and in public.
Once in the castle this "training" of Beauty is continued and not just by the prince. This is the start of a period during which Beauty will discover things about her self she could never have guessed at; a period that will end with a wilful and unexpected act of rebellion.
I'm not quite sure what to say about this book.
It is a very well written story, and I wouldn't expect anything less from Anne Rice. It also seems to be lacking in imagination though. The endless spanking became quite tedious after the first 150 pages or so.
On the other hand I did like the way the sexual awakening of Beauty is described. The way in which her confusion, despair and shame were described was convincing.... Read more ›
Few people will be unfamiliar with the fairytale in which a beautiful princess has to sleep for 100 years before a handsome prince will come to awaken her.
And that is pretty much how this story starts, except that the handsome prince doesn't awaken the beautiful princess with a kiss but by taking her virginity.
The next day the prince tells Beauty and her parents that he is claiming the princess and will take her to his mother's kingdom for training. Although the king and queen object initially they allow the prince to take their daughter with him after they are reminded how they themselves had been trained there and how they had benefitted from it.
For Beauty this is the start of an ordeal. She is stripped naked and made to travel with the prince like that, on full view of everybody they encounter. She is also often and ferociously spanked and slapped, both in private and in public.
Once in the castle this "training" of Beauty is continued and not just by the prince. This is the start of a period during which Beauty will discover things about her self she could never have guessed at; a period that will end with a wilful and unexpected act of rebellion.
I'm not quite sure what to say about this book.
It is a very well written story, and I wouldn't expect anything less from Anne Rice. It also seems to be lacking in imagination though. The endless spanking became quite tedious after the first 150 pages or so.
On the other hand I did like the way the sexual awakening of Beauty is described. The way in which her confusion, despair and shame were described was convincing.... Read more ›
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
›
Go to Amazon.com to see all 377 reviews
3.5 out of 5 stars
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
The sleeping beauty novels
My friend read the books and recommended them to me. I found them to be easy to read but hard to put down. Read more
Published 10 months ago by the rhondda rebel
1.0 out of 5 stars
Trilogy of Beauty Novels
Was not shocked but bored. Utter rubbish. Think Anne must have needed some money or somehting at the time of writing. Great fan of all her other books. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Belleza
3.0 out of 5 stars
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy
Definitely Erotica,with a capital E , and a bit of a shock as I hadn't seen any other reviews, and thought the books were just a set of Anne Rice novels I hadn't come across... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Susan Francis
2.0 out of 5 stars
To repetitive
The book deals with Sleeping Beauty being treated like a hostage prostitute or something like that. There is no story only gory sceenes describing nakedness and abusive treatment... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2011 by Cirse the Whitch
5.0 out of 5 stars
Defying the sexual cliche
Again, the sheer brilliant of Anne Rice. Discovering female sexuality in a slightly patriarchal style. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2009 by Katie
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Seriously Troubled Heroine
Sheer pornography. Don't know what people fancy in it because it is like the author sat down and thought 'what other perversion can I make my heroine and hero do to titilate my... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2008 by Zontania
5.0 out of 5 stars
Grew up with Beauty
I took my time reading these books allowing myself several weeks between each one before I finished them. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2006 by Lindsey C.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
