How long does it take to read Beauty's Punishment?
Beauty's Punishment by Anne Rice takes about 4 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
Previous: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Next: Beauty's Release
About 4 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 234 pages, about 64,350 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now 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. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. Preceding the visceral eroticism of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, and even more haunting than her own novel Belinda, this second installment is not to be missed.
Subjects: Sleeping Beauty Adaptations, Sleeping Beauty (Tale), Bondage (Sexual behavior), fiction, Sexual dominance and submission, fiction, Fiction, erotica, Erotic stories, fiction
