The Sleeping Beauty Quartet · Book 3
Beauty's Release
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780451176967
- Type
- novel
About this book
The third entry in the Sleeping Beauty Quartet series, Beauty's Release was published in 1985 and runs 320 pages, closing out the original trilogy Anne Rice wrote as A. N. Roquelaure. It completes Beauty's arc from captive to a figure who commands the very rituals that once controlled her, three decades before Rice returned to the world in Beauty's Kingdom.
Its place in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
Beauty's Release is book 3 in the The Sleeping Beauty Quartet series. It follows Beauty's Punishment. It is followed by Beauty's Kingdom. 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 9780451176967