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ladydrisk 's review for:
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
by Anne Rice
I couldn’t decide how to rate this at first.
It starts strong with highly controversial elements.
And it just keeps getting more disturbing and dark with every page as you start catch the patterns.
When you finally think this book cannot possibly get any more grotesque… it does. It reads as a really messed up erotic social experiment.
Like watching a horrific disaster through a window, you almost can’t walk away without knowing how it finally ends.
This is one of only 2 books I’ve ever read that made me feel physically ill while reading it.
It’s also somehow fascinating to consider when this book was published and the strange novelty of it. I’m not sure that’s validation enough to save it…
It starts strong with highly controversial elements.
And it just keeps getting more disturbing and dark with every page as you start catch the patterns.
When you finally think this book cannot possibly get any more grotesque… it does. It reads as a really messed up erotic social experiment.
Like watching a horrific disaster through a window, you almost can’t walk away without knowing how it finally ends.
This is one of only 2 books I’ve ever read that made me feel physically ill while reading it.
It’s also somehow fascinating to consider when this book was published and the strange novelty of it. I’m not sure that’s validation enough to save it…