Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty Series #2) Book

High Fantasy, Graphically Sexual, and Exquisitely Detailed… I feel that in this day and age, there are few taboo texts which still exist to embarrass the reader who unapologetically devoured the pages without regard to the outside world… But the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty comes as close as possible to that point…

Many readers detest these books... I enjoy them!
"It was over. The cracks still rang in her ears. She could still feel the paddle as if in a dream. And her sex was like a hollow chamber in which all pleasures she had known left their loud, reverberating echo." I'll not go so far as to pretend that these books represent some sort of hallmark for the genre (or of the D/s Lifestyle in general), but they are a journey worth taking if you have the metaphorical balls for it.

I'm not even going to try and pretend that I don't wield these books as a weapon against those who are ignorant enough about the D/s Lifestyle to believe that Fifty Shades of Grey and its fuzzy handcuff contemporaries are a representative of BDSM… Not that those books aren't entertaining for what they are (Modern Romance with a slightly erotic, slightly kinky kick)… But let's endeavor to call a spade a spade, people… Before someone gets their pretty little feelings hurt…

When I picked up the infamous & highly erotic The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty so many years ago, I did not know that additional books existed in the series. A few weeks ago, Carie Ernst (Who is not a member of GoodReads but I hope by evoking her name, she might magically join the dark side) and I were discussing Erotic Fiction, and she brought up these books. The next time Carie arrived on my doorstep she had the second and third books in hand for my reading pleasure.

These books are completely over-the-top graphically sexual & and descriptive to the point of making the reader squirm… However, I find the psychology of the submissive much more accurate in Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure's fantasy land than it is often portrayed in the soft-core BDSM-light Erotic Romances which come across my path more frequently.

I found Tristan's chapters "In the House of Nicolas" and "Splendid Equipage" to be amazingly (perhaps morbidly?) fascinating… It was my first foray into horsey-play after all… and a lady never forgets her first.