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Book Review of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, Bk 1)

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty, Bk 1)
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In the traditional tale of Sleeping Breauty the spell cast upon a lovely princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a prince. Now in Anne Rice's retelling of Beauty, the prince awakens her not with a kiss, but with sexual iniation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement.