Hmm... What to say? A nasty, dirty novel. However, better then "The Claiming". ( )

Beauty leaves the castle in order to fulfill a period of service in the village. Prince Tristan joins her there and the reader is privy to his experiences as well.
Tristan's chapters are written in the first person, while the rest of the book is told in the third person. It's a little disconcerting, but not confusing at all.
The final chapter of the tale was quite compelling and really left a reader excited for the sequel. ( )

Interesting, but the things done to the slaves are often so unrealistic that it is distracting.
Slightly more plot than the first part, and does leave the reader wondering what will happen in the third. ( )

I loved this second book. It was very erotic. Not only do you learn what happeneds to Beauty but you get to learn about Tristan aswell and his punishment. Its just like the book says; its a story about disciplin, love and surrender. You follow Beauty's story and learn what leads to her kidnapping from the village. This book was great and well worth the read. Keep in mind if you MUST be into BDSM and completely open minded about sexual experiences in order to enjoy this wonderful book. I completely LOVED it. ( )

This sequel to "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty", the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire.

Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.

"Beauty's Punishment" is the continuation of "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty", Anne Rice's erotic retelling of the popular fairy tale. In the second installment, Beauty is punished for having rebelled against the Prince. She, along with Prince Tristan, an insubordinate slave and object of Beauty's desire, is auctioned, captivated and subjected to the most erotic, tantalizing and cruel games of domination and submission.

In the village Beauty and some others are auctioned to the civilians who transform them into working slaves : they have to work, the boys are turned into horses or poneys, and their masters and mistresses are degrading them and punishing them into a new stage of submission. They develop their dependence on this enslavement to the point of getting in love with the punishment and the punishing masters or mistresses. At this moment they cannot even imagine themselves leaving or escaping from that degrading position because their psyche has been made dependent on it, because their intellect has been centered on it.

Their whole vision of the world and of themselves in the world holds only because of this enslavement that becomes the cornerstone of it, the apex of any intelligent or sensual reaction and action. They need the punishment to remain structured. Without the punishment they collapse into sheer non-existence, a scattered jigsaw puzzle whose pieces cannot be set back into any kind of a pattern.

Again, Anne Rice does an excellent job in illustrating the psychological implications of the human desire. She also does a splendid job in taking the course of the story to unexpected turns...

There are various differences between "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" and its sequel. In "Beauty's Punishment", the language is less fanciful and more explicit. Also, Prince Tristan is the focal character in this book -- thus, making Beauty seem as though she were a secondary character at times.

Book Details:

Title Beauty's Punishment (Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty, 2)
Author Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure
Reviewed By Purplycookie ( )