A review by rainydaywriter
Beauty's Punishment, by Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure

4.0

I'm finding that Rice actually really nails the motivations and emotional experiences of the submissives. This book is very spicy, and as far as the erotic aspects go, it is quite good. But I found that I was getting even more out of just the exploration of the sort of philosophy of dominance and submission. Stepping into characters' heads who hate that they love what they're experiencing is a really interesting way to think on the experience of a submissive.

More non-con, of course, and the most "fairy tale" aspect of this book is really that consent is not even considered, and that every "slave" actually gets sexual gratification out of what is being done to them.