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Summary: Great sequel!
Review: Beauty's Punishment is the continuation of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice's erotic retelling of the popular fairy tale. In the second installment, Beauty is punished for having rebelled against the Prince. She, along with Prince Tristan, an insubordinate slave and object of Beauty's desire, is auctioned, captivated and subjected to the most erotic, tantalizing and cruel games of domination and submission. Again, Anne Rice does an excellent job in illustrating the psychological implications of the human desire. She also does a splendid job in taking the course of the story to unexpected turns...There are various differences between The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and its sequel. In Beauty's Punishment, the language is less fanciful and more explicit. Also, Prince Tristan is the focal character in this book -- thus, making Beauty seem as though she were a secondary character at times. And I noticed that the erotic scenes are far steamier this time. The changes are brilliant, for it makes the story meatier -- so to speak. I am duly impressed with Ms. Rice's ecstatic imagination and excellent prose. This is erotica at its literary best! I can't wait to know what happens to Beauty and Tristan in the conclusion of this (so far) memorable trilogy!
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Summary: You must suffer and serve before you can rule
Review: You must suffer and serve before you can rule, and suffer she does. For her insubordination, Beauty is sent to be sold a slave in a village. Rice continues her erotic description of BDSM torments from The Capture of Sleeping Beauty. By now she has fallen in love with the handsome Prince Tristan. His torments are also followed in this second book. Erotic slaves do menial labor, cleaning and scrubbing, act as horses pulling carts, and or course are whipped and sexually tortured regularly for the erotic pleasure of the master. It's a classic of erotic BDSM fiction. You might as well buy all three to start with.
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Summary: Much Better than the First¿..
Review: I was compelled to read this sequel to 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty'; I had already bought all the books. Although the first one was disappointing from a character stand point I was not disappointed in the topic matter only the delivery. This second book is much more deliberate in its telling of Beauty and Tristian, a fellow slave. This book seems to concentrate on the trial and tribulations of Tristian rather than our Beauty. Both Beauty and Tristian are disobedient slaves exiled to a near village for an extended punishment at the hands of everyday villagers skilled in the art of domination and submission. The journey both Beauty and Tristian take is more than the physical and sexual nature but of a psychological tale of submission, understanding, and acceptance of the situation with in them and around them. This second book was filled with acts of cruelty, desire, and satisfaction, but can be best described as Fantasy Erotica at its purist. girldiver.
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Summary: Beauty's Punishment
Review: Not as good as the first in this series but it will keep your interest. Would recommend reading The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty first since it is the first book in the series.
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Summary: Second Installment as good as the first!
Review: This is the second book in the Beauty series and it continues in the same fashion as the first. Lots of sex, consentual and not, in every manner you could conceivable dream up. It wets the appetite for the next book. I found it interesting and, as always, tantalizing. Anne Rice has done it again... as if there was ever any doubt!
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Summary: Shocking Sequel
Review: I bought the three all at one time when told that these were some kind of "new" work by Anne Rice writing under an (in)famous pseudonym. New? Well, that is an understatement. The first one had poor Beauty in the castle with her prince. Now she has been a bad girl (Rice's favorite kind, apparently) and joins her fellow slaves in a town of the common folk for fun and games. I think everyone at some time has thought of at least a variation of this - having beautiful gals (or handsome guys) around for pleasure. Giving literary license, one can almost find this stuff in the realm of possibility at some point way in the past. Again, we have a suffering of the soul and again all those mixed feelings in which Rice excels.
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Summary: An interesting twist on a fairy tale fantasy
Review: Like the other two books of the series Beauty's Punishment puts an very erotic spin on the old fairy tale. This series was my first time reading litterature on this particular area of sexual fantasy but it was so enthralling that I couldn't put the books down once I was drawn into the world of Beauty. If you have an open mind about various aspects of sexuality this book is one not to be missed.
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Summary: Naughty!
Review: Well, it's bondge at the Rice house... if you enjoyed Exit to Eden, the movie notwithstanding (yech!), or Belinda, you'll enjoy this (the second in a triad of Sleeping Beauty with a twist... in Anne Rice's world, a kiss just isn't going to do it... you take it from there!). *grin* So go into it with an open mind, and read it alone... the blushing will give you away!
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Summary: Erotica
Review: Although I am not one to admit that I am into this sort of novel, I do read them behind closed doors. This one was given to me as a gift several years ago while I was in high school. Since that time I have read the novel 3 or 4 times and occasionally page through to reread a favorite passage. This is a book that general puts me in the mood and definitely opens up the doors for sexual imagination and fantasy. I would have to say this is a must-read, but only if you truely enjoy erotica.
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Summary: Beauty's Punishment
Review: This audio cassette of Anne Rice's Beauty's Punishment, alternates with stories of domination and submission as Beauty and the other slaves encounter various situations with their new masters. They even enjoy being slaves and being treated as lowly servants of the higher class through situations of extreme degradation. Elizabeth Montgomery of Bewitched, is one of the narrators of this tale and it is surprising to know that she became involved with this project given the previous images and characters she has portrayed. The language is explicit at times, and erotic. If you aren't easily shocked and are somewhat broadminded, then this is definately worth a listen!!!!!!!!!
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