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Exit to Eden
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Exit to Eden
Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

Exit to Eden

Written by Anne Rice

Narrated by Gil Bellows and Gillian Anderson

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

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We all dream of the forbidden but some of us make those dreams come true . . . .

With the same mystery, menace and intensity as her Vampire books, Exit to Eden explores the forbidden by taking us The Club, a vacation paradise where no aspect of sexual pleasure is taboo. Just as The Story of O shocked the Sixties by speaking about what had only been whispered, Exit to Eden gives voices to the sexual secrets of the Eighties.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 4, 2000
ISBN9780375418198
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Exit to Eden
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Anne Rice

A.N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.

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Rating: 3.259589590792839 out of 5 stars
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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I started reading this book just after reading The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, so I had pretty high expectations for the erotic thrills Anne Rice had in store. Sadly to say I was left disappointed after reading Exit to Eden. It started out strong; the characters and the story line really intrigued me. However, as one other reviewer posted, at some point you start to see a train wreck waiting to happen. I hate it when a romance novel gives you a strong and independent female protagonist who by the end of the book has basically been shaped into the stereotypical love-struck female all for the sake of a man. To add one more point, I expected a pretty good helping of erotica/S&M which is really only at the beginning of this book. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty had a great plot that still revolved around S&M. However, for a book that deals with an S&M club I felt like it really took things easy. As the reader gets farther into the book the beautiful descriptive erotica wans and for a while dies out altogether. As I said, disappointed is the word I would use to describe this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Panders to the brutal reality that we'd pretty much all like to get abducted and taken off to some island where we are all given exactly what we wanted back from the beginning...
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In many ways, Worthy is an homage to Exit to Eden. I love that Anne Rice wrote such deliciously naughty books and owns it!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This is an extremely abridged version of the novel. It leaves out too much for me to enjoy it. FAIL
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Erotica should never be boring. No excuses, Rice!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book started out really well but I could have done without the role reversal between the lead characters and the sappy stuff...
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A erotic love story, who can't enjoy that?! The audiobook was awesome, loved the pauses.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The surprise was to find that this novel is quite the anti ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. In ‘Fifty Shades’, we go from an innocent main character to a more mature, adult, woman. Here, this is rather the opposite: the main character, Lisa, is a BDSM dominant who has it all: fortune, an exclusive BDSM resort and the management of it all. However, she ends up falling in love with one of the newly arrived ‘slaves’, Elliott.So readers who are looking to get some ‘thrill’ from erotic scenes are going to be disappointed, because the main themes are rather the love story, the characters’ inner thoughts and developments throughout the novel. Basically, we go from a standard BDSM scene into vanilla sex.I’ve found their characterization a bit stereotypical whereas some peripheral characters stand out better than them, for example, ‘the mentor’ Martin is better defined, he is easier to picture than Lisa or Elliott.If you’re looking to read about a good love story, then this is the book for you. If you’re expecting more out of it, you’re going to be disappointed. It’s a leisurely read, nothing more.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    If you have seen the movie, there is little that stayed the same. There are no cops, the slaves where no clothing and sign a contract and are required to stay the full length of that contract (no matter what). Way more risqué than the movie.

    I knew this going in, but was still surprise at how different the book it (and I do not mean that it was more sexually graphic). In the movie, the cop story was a large part of the movie and it is not in the book. This is much more romance. I can also see a lot of Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series (just much tamer) in this book.

    I did enjoy the read, just not what I was expecting.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I felt like I was watching a train wreck...you know something is going to happen but you just can't stop looking at it! wow...pretty good book, but not what I was expecting.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This is a book that, for me, marks just how much the passage of time and acquiring of experience can change how one thinks of a book.

    When I first read this particular book, I was in my very early 20s, still fairly innocent in a 1980s sort of way, and curious about all this forbidden, taboo sex stuff. The book hit me like a lightening bolt, full of things I'd never yet considered. I devoured it and thought it a wonderful romantic yet kinky story. Five Stars, all the way.

    Some years later, after many relationships, much more reading, getting married, and the general events that happen in a life, I thought it would be fun to read again. I think I made it in about 40 pages. Trite! Wooden dialog! Cardboard characters! Physically impossible descriptions! Seriously STUPID! The book was tossed against the wall as if it were drywall mud and quickly found its way into a box to the used book store.

    What had changed? I had, for one. I'd read a lot more erotica by then, so much more superior erotica, stories that weren't just about the sex, but delved into how human lives warped, changed, grew or shrank because of sex and love and everything associated with it.

    I should note that, by this time, I'd run into the same feelings concerning Rampling/Rice's other works. Only her first one, the now much maligned Interview..., can I look back on with any fondness.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Audiobook - too long, a lot of sex which does not bother me but just went on and on and on...
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book had me turning page after page following the lives of adult S&M characters living out their dreams! The end of the book is one unexpected turn after another.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Written using a pseudonym, Anne Rice explores her erotic side in this tantalizing story. Rice's stylistic writing shines despite the exclusion of her popular elements (think vampires and witches). Sure to arouse. Appropriate for college aged and beyond.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Mediocre BDSM erotica that turns into a boring romance novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    this story was written in classic Anne rice erotica fashion . I thought that theblove story was a nice touch . Rice is able to describe the innermost feelings and reactions that someone has
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It's good up until it transforms from a hot bdsm novel to a lukewarm romance. I wanted more whips and chains and less candlelit dinners.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Awesome story about a woman, Lisa, who is a "Mistress" on a special island of sexual pleasures. She manages the business end of things as well as having a role in the management of slaves. That is until she nearly destroys herself over an infatuation with a new slave. Is this simply lust, or could it be more? Explicit sex, BDSM, M/M, M/F and more. But, unbelievable enough, a very good love story.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is the first Anne Rice book I've ever read, and I loved it! I was hooked from the beginning and was dying to know what happened at the end, but this was so beautifully written that I had to slow myself down in order to savor every word and sentiment.The bits of erotica in here were hot, but the love story was even hotter. And if you try to read this book but get turned off by the sex, you're completely missing the point. This is a story about self-discovery but also about deciphering your place in the world. Rice brings up some valid issues beyond love and sex that pertain to just being human . Quite multi-dimensional for a novel that others may quickly dismiss as 'smut'.Its depth comes from what Lisa and Elliott face during their processes of discovery:-the role of slave vs the role of master-surrendering vs controlling-what is bad, what is good?-what is normal, what is not? (and is there even such a thing?)-wanting vs having-liberation vs imprisonment-hiding ourselves vs being vulnerable and exposed-coming to terms with who and what we areIt aroused me physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and I, therefore, had to give it a 5.