It is the Anne Rice sleeping Beauty series. The claiming of sleeping beauty, beauty's punishment and beauty's release. They are awesome books. I love them.

Sorry. Wish I could help. I'll do a search and see what I find. Sometimes you can add a piece of the story or ending in the search and it'll pull up results. I HATE forgetting authors! I've been racking my brain for 2 months trying to remember the author of some book I read a while back. All I can remember is her name started with J and the book I read was thin and black with metallic red lettering. Ugh! Lol. I'm going to have to take a trip to our local book store just to remember. You might try that because that solution NEVER fails me when I forget a book or author! It jumps out at ya once you see it again.

The books you talked about do sound interesting! I'll let ya know if I come up with anything.

That's probably a good call! Oh and I forgot about the female genital mutilation in the second or third book. It's just a mess, in my opinion.

A good friend of mine suggested I read them... I ordered from EF and in my opinion??? Terrible!!!! There was maybe a page or two out of all of the novels I thought was titillating. The rest of it?? Not so much!!!

I know this post is old, but regarding this scene, she got away with it because you can get away with just about anything that is written. A number of non-erotic books by well-known authors (Dean R. Koontz, James Patterson) have scenes involving sex, violence and animals. I don't care for it at all, but at the same time I know it's just written words on a page so I don't get worked up about it.

I did not care for them. They were not up to Anne Rice's calibur of writing in my opinion and I found them difficult to get through.

Same here, I'm a HUGE fan of her vampire series. LOVE them all....