Day One Hundred and Thirty-Three through Thirty-Six

8/13-8/16

The Book: The Claiming of Sleepy Beauty by Anne Rice

ISBN: 978-0-452-28142-4

Suggested By: Sissy Vaughn

Where: Home

When: Various Times

Music: None

Company: Alone

Pages: 1-221

The Lead In: Again, this is the continuation of the blog before. Just want to hammer this out and be caught up. This is all the reading up to this point.

The 411 on the 55: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is an interesting take on the old story of Sleeping Beauty. In this, Beauty is claimed from her sleep by a young prince who brings her back to his castle and kingdom to serve as his sex slave. In his kingdom, this is normal.

When Beauty is brought into the kingdom, she is taught how to be sexually submissive to the bondage aspects of the kingdom. She is extremely interested in another slave, Alexi, but is denied any opportunity to consummate her desire. Until one night, she is snuck into a closet by Alexi and things are taken care of.

Line of the Day: “She had obeyed all his commands, and he understood how difficult it was for her. He knew completely what it meant for her to be stripped naked and revealed to everyone, to be helpless and made public and that this surrender of which he spoke could come in acts and gestures long before it could come from her mind.” pg 29

Fact on the Fiction: This book is in the genre of another famous work of erotica, Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom. The novel is a story of 4 wealthy libertines who decide to experience the best possible orgy and lock themselves in a castle with many accomplices. Wikipedia