A review by m_r_martin1981
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure

1.0

***Spoilers: This book made me mad almost the whole time. It starts out with Beauty being "date raped" by the Prince to wake her up. Then he takes her to his kingdom without her consent and forces her to be his love slave. The first half of the book Beauty is made to do humiliating things that she doesn't want to do which makes me hate the Prince immediately. She then becomes infatuated with Prince Alexi (another slave) and I started thinking that may be this story was going somewhere I would be okay with. I was wrong. There was quite a bit of time spent on Prince Alexi, including two chapters on his background story, only to have Beauty forget about him in the next chapter and decide to stage an escape so she'll get sent to the village with Prince Tristan! I feel like my time was wasted reading this book.