Fifty Shades Darker vs The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Erotic fiction, Sexual dominance and submission, Erotica, Romance & Relationships, Romance, Fiction
Fifty Shades Darker
Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing…
1 film adaptation
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
“The Prince had all his young life known the story of Sleeping Beauty, cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle.”
In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged…
The verdict
- Readers rate Fifty Shades Darker highest: Fifty Shades Darker 3.9 · The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty 3.5.
- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 11 for Fifty Shades Darker.
- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty has the widest readership — 815 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Fifty Shades Darker | The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.1 (473) | — |
| Google Books | 4.0 (228) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (709) | 3.5 (815) |
Reception
| Fifty Shades Darker | The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 709 | 815 |
| Editions | 83 | 25 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 4662 | 7290 |
| Pages | 604 | 270 |