The Sleeping Beauty Quartet · Book 4
Beauty's Kingdom
- Published
- 21 April 2015
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780143108214
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 336 pages, Beauty's Kingdom is the longest entry in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet, appearing in 2015 -- three decades after Beauty's Release, and published under Anne Rice's own name from the outset. It arrived after Fifty Shades of Grey, a book Rice herself has said drew on her Sleeping Beauty novels, transformed the erotica market that once required the Roquelaure pseudonym.
Its place in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
Beauty's Kingdom is book 4 in the The Sleeping Beauty Quartet series. It follows Beauty's Release. See the full The Sleeping Beauty Quartet reading order.
Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty books retell the fairy tale as an explicit BDSM erotic fantasy: a prince wakes the sleeping princess not with a kiss but by claiming her as a captive, and carries her off to a kingdom where the nobility openly practice ritualized submission and discipline. Written in ornate, deliberately old-fashioned prose that plays the fairy-tale register straight even as the content is anything but childlike, the first three volumes follow Beauty from her initial captivity through an escalating…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780143108214