Only read the first one out of the series and now started reading Story of O and it strongly reminds me of beauty. Not keen i'm afraid. Can't humanly connect with none of the characters and for me that's the big turn on. Maybe out of guilt Anne Rice has started writing the religious themed books as a form of redemption. I haven't read these but hear she has said she will not return to horror fantasy The Vampire chronicles is my all time favourite although she did start to go a little homoerotic which is not my thing.