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A review by pocketclown
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure
1.0
(0.5 stars) What a boring waste of time. I could feel my brain cells jumping out my ears. I don’t really know what I expected from an erotic retelling of sleeping beauty but I didn’t think I’d get a 24/7 spankfest. The only thing that kept me going was my curiosity for how one can make sleeping beauty sexy. Rice failed spectacularly and the sleeping beauty aspect really meant nothing. The book opens with Beauty being raped then stripped to become this Prince’s “love slave”. The book ends with Beauty experiencing what can only be described as Stockholm syndrome and getting herself sent to The Village(tm) to experience more torture in the next book (WHICH I will not be reading). The only interesting part was any inkling of rebellion that Beauty has, otherwise it was painfully boring and repetitive. Mostly I thought about no person could possibly withstand the amount of whipping/slapping/paddling etc in one day without drawing any blood. For the record, all that happened was everyone got spanked. There was very little sex and when there was sex it was uninspired.
I couldn’t fathom how every single person was just completely fine with everything happening. Does everyone know? Is this a contained sex cult? What the fuck? It’s not even like a fun read, it’s just bad. It’s a bad book that is just boring and when it’s not boring it’s confusing, weird and unsexy. You really just wonder what the point of the book was because it fundamentally was not sexy. And its goal is to be sexy! Some have said, in defence of the book, that it’s adult, that it’s pornography and NOT erotica but I seriously need you to think how that writes the wrongs of this book?
I couldn’t fathom how every single person was just completely fine with everything happening. Does everyone know? Is this a contained sex cult? What the fuck? It’s not even like a fun read, it’s just bad. It’s a bad book that is just boring and when it’s not boring it’s confusing, weird and unsexy. You really just wonder what the point of the book was because it fundamentally was not sexy. And its goal is to be sexy! Some have said, in defence of the book, that it’s adult, that it’s pornography and NOT erotica but I seriously need you to think how that writes the wrongs of this book?