Rating: 
Summary: Great
Review: This book is a great erotic thriller. Once you start it you can't put it down. I suggest getting all three in this series.
Rating: 
Summary: Unique Audio book
Review: For some weird reason the audio book industry has thumbed their noses at erotica and thus very little of the genre is ever turned out in the audio format. Thanks the sex Gods then for the Beauty trilogy. This first book was quite the listening experience; full of erotic passeges not to mention S and M scenes it held my interest quite well. It was a blast to have stuff like this being read out loud it really brought the images to life. I would have preferred a male reader but that's just personal taste. The reader used was quite good in her own right though her range of character voices is rather limited. The story is basically a re-telling of Sleeping Beauty though of course there is much more to it. Anne Rice once again has created a world full of sensual pleasures and deep emotions. Her unique stuyle of making the characters pansexual and engrossing is what gives this story its fire. There is of course no deep plotline here or mystry to solve but an erotic journey to undertake. To its credit the story does end on a cliffhanger of sorts though. Very nice now I must move on to Beauty's Punishment. This audio book contains two audio cassettes it has a single reader.
Rating: 
Summary: rape is NOT erotic
Review: I am ashamed that I ever read this book. What is so erotic about someone being raped? And I think that if you are into spanking, it should be consensual. Being spanked without your consent is NOT erotic.Some things I saw wrong with this book:
1. How Anne Rice could possibly condone raping Beauty. Not only was it against her will, she was 15!! When the book was written in the 1980s, pedophilia was against the law and still is. 2. Beauty's parents being so willing to give her over to sexual slavery, without putting up a fight. If I were her mother, I would have said that they'd have to kill me first before anyone took my daughter for that reason. 3. The crass comments of the townspeople, and how the old man and the servant girl got off on fondling and spanking her when Beauty was obviously humiliated. 4. Being naked and ready to do whatever anyone desired at any time. 5. How Beauty was being aroused despite herself and despite dreading the beatings and rapes. Please, people, if you want to be turned on by a little spanking, make sure it is with someone who consents.
Rating:
Summary: Not a standard bed-time story...
Review: I found myself thouroughly enjoying this book and the sequels, because I didn't get the idea that it was just a sordid romance/erotica novel. The story itself was inspired, and the characters played into it and grew as the novels progressed. You could seem to watch Beauty change with the ideas presented to her, her growth as a character was what made the novels so good.
However the ideas presented may seem vile or aweful to a puritan reader, the exploration of sexuality in the characters was gratifying and I found myself challenging my own sexual views. It takes a flexible mind set to get into some aspects and some of the luridness,and the need for certain details leaves you wanting more. It's almost a bit of a paradox.
Rice's voice and storytelling ability are wonderful, if only there was more substance to these books.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing story rich in detail and imagination
Review: I have read various books written by Anne Rice but by far this collection is the best very rich in detail and creativity.
Definietly recommended for bedtime story for adults only, at times harsh & unbelievable and at times sweet & sensitive.
I was hooked by page two and read the other two books and never wanted to put them down....recommended by a very special friend, and taken every recommendation after this one!!!!!
Great bachlorette gift.....really!!!
Rating:
Summary: Just Awful!
Review: Allow me to reiterate; Poorly written
Vile
Tasteless
Verbose
Redundant I've read good erotica, (s&m, bondage classics,) etc. This isn't it. Amazon should allow for half or no star. "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown aside with great force." ~Dorothy Parker
Rating:
Summary: Very surprising... and stimulating.
Review: I was given this book as a gift, and loosely familiar with Anne Rice's work as a sort of mainstream author, I was shocked by the material within.
Rice delves within the psychological process of b&d and sub/dom quite well, making it far more than purely a lustful thing, rather a situation of perfect release and simplicity. Even though some of the instances of humiliation made me cringe a little, this book definitely turned me on.
Rating:
Summary: Burning it would be too kind
Review: Anne Rice, a bagged-out old rebrobate who has amply proven what a hack she is in a series of ludicrous revisionist vampire tales (written,
apparently, with the simple-minded in mind) somehow thought it would
be cute to sex up a beloved fairy tale. Well, it isn't cute and it isn't sexy.
It IS unbelievably badly written, in a strange stilted style somehow appropriate for someone adopting the pretentious non de plume of
Roquelaure (which, if you ask me, is suggestive of smelly cheese).
I can only pray Ms. Roquelaure will get better soon - that is, that she will recover from both her delusion of being a writer anyone should care
about and that, eventually, she will actually have an original idea. Dear reader, sex should be beautiful, not to mention consensual. The
"sex" in this book is neither. I've had good sex and bad. But I have never had, nor do I ever hope to have, the grotesque mockery of sex presented in this God-awful waste of paper. Verily, this book is laughable. It is sick. It is stupid beyond words. I beg you, do not make Ms. Rice/Roquelaure richer. Here are a few things you
can read that are more rewarding and personally enriching than "Beauty": 1) Graffiti (any)
2) Condiment labels
3) Bumper stickers
4) The fine print on your phone bill
5) The backs of cereal boxes
6) The sides of cereal boxes
7) The tops and bottom of cereal boxes
8) Tattoos There, that should keep you occupied until that dearly wished-for day when this, and all books by Rice/Roquelaure, are out of print. Good day.
Rating:
Summary: Book burning never sounded so good
Review: Pay attention: This book is one of the most stupefyingly moronic, vile, tasteless, pointless pieces of dung ever to masquerade as literature. Anne Rice should be spanked hard, long and without mercy - on her hands, preferably, to discourage her from touching a keyboard ever again - for having the audacity to actually commit these stupid, STUPID words to paper and take money for them. I am ashamed for having purchased this book, in good faith, in expectation of something with at least a modicum of class and imagination. However, it has no redeeming value whatsoever, none. Trees should not be dying in order for trash like this to be published.
Rating:
Summary: I'm Coming
Review: Rice starts and keeps on going with
the mind and body stimulating erotica.
Lots of spanking. I dare you to try not
to come.
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