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OMG, YES!!!! The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is supposed to be this fabulous BDSM book. It's not. It's all about non-consensual rape, beating and humiliation. There was NOTHING sexy about it.
I read it on a dare because my sister told me she couldn't make it through because it was so raunchy. I didn't mind the explicit-ness (new word?) one bit, but from the moment he woke her up -and she hadn't even consented to THAT- I knew that I was falling down a weird rabbit hole.
The explicit parts didn't bother me either. It was the forced stuff that did. And the writing style was so fairy-tale like, unlike the actual plot. I gave it one star, because I couldn't at the time give it any less. Horrid, horrid book. Never touched books 2 and 3 after that.
Maybe that's what bothered me about the writing! I couldn't put my finger on it, but something just felt so off when I was reading it and I was really surprised because Anne Rice's stuff is normally pretty heavy. I didn't read the second or third book, either.
YES! I despise Hush, Hush for all those reasons!
I only read Sleeping Beauty for the sex. It was pretty terrible, to be honest, but then again, I'm not into spanking. That scene with the flies and the honey...ugh, ugh, ugh. I crossed my legs.
Oh, gosh. That scene disturbed me so much! I was so confused as to why, and then when they talked about the flies... I swear, a shudder passed through me. Ack! I had forgotten how much spanking there is. I felt like there must be cleverer and more diverse punishments to use than spanking over and over.
To be fair, I was a teenager, had never dated anyone, was curious as hell for some bookish form of titillation. Still, nope. If there's one thing I learned from this book, it's that BDSM (or an overuse of it) does absolutely nothing to turn me on.
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