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Plot Summary of Beauty's Release
"In this third and final book of Sleeping Beauty's Adventures, Beauty is kidnapped, along with slaves who she knows, and taken to a foreign land where she is introduced to a new culture of jewels and scented oils and beautiful women of the Sultan's herem. Beauty once again is caught in a world of erotic plearsure and pain. The story comes to a conclusion and Beauty is finally sent back home but Beauty doesn't want to go. She has fallen in love with her life style and a very handsome slave. But there is a fairy tale ending."
Sherrie L. Jones, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Beauty's Release
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Plot
Time/era of story - Victorian england
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched? - loving slave
Sex/Erotic story, Primarily Yes
Story of... - sex slave

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - slave
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/mental: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - deluded - wild
How sexual is this person? - "zip'm down, zip'm up. Next!"
How romantic is this person? - not very romantic
Sex makes him - more demanding - angry - wild
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident - obedient - blissful - sensitive - a better lover
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Main Female Character
Age/status: - a teen
Profession/status: - slave
Eccentric/Mental: Yes
Eccentric: - deluded
How sexual is this person? - "Zip'm down, zip'm up. Next!"
How romantic is this person? - not very romantic
effect of sexing - confused - wild - demanding
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - confident - obedient - a better lover - mature
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Dumb
Physique - average physique

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - Eastern Europe
Misc setting - castle

Style
Person - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to torture
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - use of artificial tools - orgies - lesbians! - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of female anatomy (the big V) - descript. of male nudity (the big P) - spanking that woman dislikes - whips, chains, and leather products used - spanking that woman comes to like - spanking of man - rape/molest (yeech!)
Part of a series? Yes
Focus of story - Her
How much dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
How much sexing? - 10 or more (that's a lot!)
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