Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: a bit shocking and I am not a prude

Ok, so Anne Rice is a great writer, yet this book and I would assume the two following, is just vile, in my opinion. I have read many of her novels and am a great fan, yet Beauty is just too much for me. I immediately saw where 50 Shades has taken her ideas and turned them into a modern day story (personally I would have been a bit upset by this) even the lip biting habit. All and all, the attraction to the story of love and lust with the trilogy in 50 was addicting. This book, so sorry Anne, is nothing more than raw, graphic, repetitive pure vile acts of animalistic sex. I found no tenderness acts of love or romance in it at all. To be sexy and capture the mind (which is part of seducing one) it takes more than the acts of dominance and rape. I wish I had stuck with 50 shades lingering in my mind.....I would still be romancing the ideas of Christian and Anastasia. I hope this book leaves my head and soon.