Review of the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice writing under the pen name of A.N Roquelaure

Hello y'all! I am very exited to write this review for you!

Let me start by saying. This is not a book for everyone. If you didn't like the  Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy or Erotica books laced with what I can only refer to as Hard Core BDSM, then please continue reading any other reviews on the blog. I just wanted to start by putting that out there.

This book is quite honestly like nothing I have ever read before. It's very explicit and evocative. Shocking even, I would prepare for a very new experience.

Its some times sexy, romantic and some times appalling. My mouth hang open quite a few times if I am been honest. It brings a whole new concept to the table. An insight to the mysterious land of BDSM that is very talked about today. This is the most straight forward, insightful book on the subject that I have ever read. I honestly did not think that a whole book could be written in that complete subject. Every page is filled with sex and punishment, erotica in its fullest form.
It tales a new, fully explicit scene filled with different ways of this new world that is presented to us via the wonderful book.
The psychology of it its what caught my eye and makes me keep reading it. The way all the slaves (that are also princess and princess's, born in the high crib and to various favours in their respective kingdoms) cope with this new part of their lives. With been used and humiliated in every possible way and then some. Its fascinating.
The way the mind works to help them cope. The way that they free their minds into feeling good about what they do and its done to them. To take the simple pleasures that they are provided and dismiss the morals of the situations that they are put into. The way their masters train them into being not only submissive but obedient without resorting to the gags and shackles, but instead by withdrawing pleasure.

Some of them even crave the punishments and rebel in different ways, to keep some of their individuality or maybe even for the sake of balance? This is never clear, but rebel they do.
Some seek them in order to get to a point where they want to be at they they would never have reached otherwise. Not been afraid of the process by looking at the outcome, the big picture. They do what they need to do and the outcome is, tough painful, also a pleasurable for them.

This book has me intrigued, it peeked my curiosity and I can't wait to read more. I am not surprised how ever. I love Anne Rice and her books are always compelling, well written and always not at all what you expect its going to be. Its good to see this has not changed, and I still love her for it.

I do hope you give this book a try if you ever wondered about the subject. This is by no means a classical romantic story, although love is a subject, its does not focus on the "One woman with one men" kind of love. Its more open than than.
I am happy I gave the book a try and I look forward to the second one. This was until not so long ago a Trilogy and only recently was there a new book released to make it a series. Here are the titles and the links for you to go to Amazon should you wish to have more info, pricing, etc.

1. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.
2. Beauty's Punishment.
3. Beauty's Release.
4. Beauty's Kingdom.


Well, this is all I have for today. I hope you found this helpful and don't forget to give me a thumbs up! I'll see y'all again on Friday with another wonderful book for you.
Until then, have a great book keeping you company.

Xoxo

A Shade of Vampire Series by Bella Forrest SPOILER ALERT

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Hello everyone,
Today I wanted to review a series that I started to read a while ago. Now this is not my typical review, since i really did not like this series much. Actually not at all. But I gave it a lot of tough and decided that I wanted to be truthful about this.
Just because I didn't like it it does not mean that it's not a great fit for someone else. I just wanted to put my side out there since guiding yourself by the critics on amazon it seems very few people share my view, so for those of you out there, here it goes:

The first book is A Shade of Vampire.

I remember reading it and thinking I loved it. The story was great, something new. There was little to no vampire romanticism in the story at all. I loved the fact that the author created a world inside ours that it was theirs and theirs only.

The story goes a bit like this.

There is The Shade, a place where the vampire congregation lives. The princess of the Shade is running it now with another leader of the council. How ever the prince, Derek Novak has been asleep places as so by a witch, the same one who made the shade for him.
Then there is Sofia. She is a normal girl, in love with the guy who has not paid her mind as she suffers and silence...

She gets kidnapped for Derek to feed when he wakes up from his magical induced coma...

Now here is what I loved:
The story was great in the fist two books. I loved the little word the author created for them. The fact that his vampires where that, hard core vampires with little to no morals at all, and the way they portrayed humans was also different. We for them are nothing but food. An inconvenience that they had found no cure or spell to solve and they approached it a bit like the Romans. Kidnapped slaves it's what you find in the shade. Held against their will.
They had no remorse what so ever, until Sofia got there and shed some light on things...

The reason why I stopped reading:
At some point past the third book it got redundant in my opinion. Everything was the same. It all keep going in circles and I felt like the protagonists didn't get it together! As in their act. She wants to be strong and take a stand for the human population in the shade and try is the operative word since so far, she is not succeeding but been push over and over to what Derek wants. They both know they are doing something wrong. Even so they don't talk to each other, don't solve it. It goes on and on until you want to yell at the book.  It seemed in every page the one consistent line was: "You're an idiot Novak."

It was really a shame because I loves the concept in the beginning, and its not like I didn't give it a try. But when the fifth book was almost over and I didn't have the urge to know how it will end, I figured it was time to call it quits.

I hope this helps y'all. I am not trying to be cruel. But if I don't share this view as well as the good ones, then this blog will be obsolete, since the reason I started it was to give truthful, real reviews.

Now with that said I did some research as always and it has a couple more books since I read it that are new in that series. There are 14 in total that are out and  complete. I am not sure if its finished tough...

So far it seems to be free on kindle unlimited (I wish it would have been when I was buying them), but again this changes, so if you decide to give it a try make sure to try and get this special offer. remember you can get 10 at a time with the Kindle Unlimited Program.

As always I hope you have a great book keeping you company and that you found this reviews helpful.

Have a great day and I'll see you soon!