the claiming of sleeping beauty an roquelaure

I don’t like the idea of confusing or disappointing readers, so the pen name helps with that. And some might find it far too spicy for their taste. We go into a gilded dream here, luscious and engulfing, in which we’re free to imagine all sorts of things-a fairy-tale world indeed.Īs Anne Rice, I’m known for certain kinds of novels the Roquelaure books retain the name Roquelaure (even with my name added) to indicate that this is something “different.” If Anne Rice is one kind of savory dish, well this is another entirely. And of course the fairy tale removes us from everyday life it removes us from the intrusion of garish headlines, literal violence, and all the ugliness of crime. And it seemed to work exquisitely with the old fairy tale.

Beauty’s slavery is delicious, sensuous, abandoned, and ultimately liberating.

The books aren’t about literal cruelty they’re about surrender, the fun of imagining you have no choice but to enjoy sex. And I thought, all right, what if he brought a kind of liberation, an induction into a world of bizarre yet irresistible delights? It has to be remembered that within the frame of a sadomasochistic fantasy like the Beauty trilogy, the readers are invited to identify with and enjoy the predicament of the slaves. at once so light and yet so haunting.I’ve always loved the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, and found something erotic at its core. 'Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic.' - Playboy Praise for The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice’s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come. as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. In the first book of the trilogy, Anne Rice (author of Beauty's Kingdom), writing as A.N. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince.

James’ Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, there was Anne Rice’s New York Times best seller The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

The claiming of sleeping beauty an roquelaure