Beauty's Punishment

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Summary: Sensuality @ It's best...
Review: I actually believe this book to be a great example of SOME aspects of the BDSM culture. The way that Beauty fully surrenders herself to the dominance of those surrounding her is something that I found to be truly beautiful. The book didn't just focus on the sexual aspect of BDSM, but it looked at it as a lifestyle. The submissive characters in the book were submissive all the way down to their daily chores. The book was extremely descriptive. I could feel textures, taste flavors, and revel in the upmost delicious scents. I haven't read the whole series, and I actually regret starting from the middle...I would recommend starting from the beginning because I had a sense of being slightly lost. I was curiuos throughtout the whole book as to how these creatures came to their position of submissiveness. I also love how at the end of the book, you are left hanging in an air of ecstacy and mystery. It makes one "hungry" for the next book. Mrs. Rice always has a way of doing such a thing......

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Summary: Very moving and erotic!
Review: I loved this book. A.R.'s exquisite views on the human spirit and sense of pride have been enveloped in this novel of eroticly wonderful proportions. Not a book for those who are very straight laced about sex! A liberal mind is the best kind for reading this book! Very few other writer can write a book practicaly dripping with sex and associated things without going off the deep end, but A.R. does it with her classic flair that made the Vampire series of hers so popular. I've given this book to my friends and they couldn't put it down, though whether it was from a true interest or a morbid fasination, I'm not really sure. A bargain however you look at it. Thanks Amazon!

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Summary: Oooh...OOOOhhhhh....OOOOOHHHHH my God!
Review: If you're not sitting in a bath tub when you read this one, the sheets will get wet. I walked into this one without really reading the back of the book, and was I in for a surprise! I have let every woman that would possibly be into this read it and they agreed. I'm not kidding when I say you'll be very wet when done. And it gets better and better with each book. If you didn't like it, well, maybe you missed the point. Anne Rice writes other erotica too, check it all out! How does Price Charming wake Sleeping Beauty? By F**king her awake and it gets deeper after that.

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Summary: Ugh!
Review: This one was horrible, horrible, horrible! This was way too hardcore, none of the subtle erotica from its prequel evident. The only good part was when Beauty & gang were put on the auction block for all those rustics to see.

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Summary: Character development?
Review: I'm amazed at the comments of other readers. Who reads bookslike this for the character development? The same ones who readPlayboy for the articles? This is not a fairy tale; it is not a character study. It is intended to be sexually arousing, and either you find it to be so, or you don't. But, please, read something else if you want character development.

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Summary: WOW
Review: WOW...MY HUSBAND AND I BOTH READ THIS TRILOGY AND LOVED IT...AND IT GAVE QUITE THE LITTLE BOOST TO OUR SEX LIFE AS WELL. I DONT READ MUCH EROTICA BUT THIS WAS GREAT....I READ THIS FASTER THAN ANY BOOK I HAVE EVER READ AND WAS LEFT WANTING MORE!

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Summary: Lots o' Spankings, Not much Plot
Review: If you can get past the first shock of reading overdone, oversexed sentences that even a 3rd rate porn star would have trouble uttering, you might find something here for you. But I wouldn't bet on it. Unfortunately, it takes about two thirds of the book to get to any sort of adventure or plot line beyond the mind-numbing subservience of mute and constantly naked slaves. The first part of the book is obsessed with paddlings and phalluses and crawling around on the floor; and while there are some interesting bits, somehow the book always seems to shy away from any real character development or insight. Beauty comes off as a witless ninny, and Tristan as a helpless "all-i-need-is-a-firm-hand" zombie. Finally near the end there is some evidence of turmoil with foreign slave-raiders coming into town, but somehow I suspect that the sequel will be a vapid re-hash in a different locale. I suppose curiosity would make you want to finish the series, but come on, how many spankings do you need to get before you learn your lesson?

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Summary: an erotic and fantastic adult fairy tale
Review: Erotic and sensual, this trilogy proves to be a somewhat provocative and exciting fairy tale for both men and women. A fantasy that will prove to unlock your imagination and inhibitions!

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Summary: Back away from this book
Review: This book is your enemy. I actually liked Anne Rice before I started reading these books. Just the mention of any of these books in this series makes me want to cry. I don't suggest anyone read these.....ever.

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Summary: Horrid Book
Review: This book was awful!! Ann must think that she is writing for children. The characters are not developed and Beauty seems stupid to me. I hated it