A Thrilling Psychological Exploration! Vampires are real. Not the kind with blood and fangs, but rather emotional vampires—the ones who use manipulation and compulsion to seduce. Charming and magnetic, they appear to be perfect—the answer to your prayers. Truth is, they have targeted you. As arousing as 50 Shades, twisted as Gone Girl, and tortured as Wuthering Heights. Luna Saint Claire has a … Wuthering Heights.
Luna Saint Claire has a loving husband and an enviable career as a Hollywood costume designer. Still, something is gnawing at her. Bored with her conventional and circumscribed existence, she feels herself becoming invisible. When she meets Nico Romero, a charismatic yoga guru, his attentions awaken her passions and desires. Dangerous, but not in a way that scares her, he makes her feel as if anything is possible. Infatuated, she becomes entangled in Nico’s life as he uses his mesmerizing sexuality to manipulate everyone around him in his pursuit of women, wealth, and celebrity.
Immensely erotic and psychologically captivating, The Sleeping Serpent is the compelling story of a woman’s obsession with a spellbinding guru and the struggle to reclaim her life. At its heart, it is a painfully beautiful exposition of unconditional love that makes us question what we truly want.
Compelling…a gripping masterful account of the seductive manipulations of a sociopath.
“She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long ago settled at the bottom of her well. He made her feel a part of him—of something larger, and somehow more alive.”
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This was an interesting story. Different from my normal reads but entertaining enough to hold my attention. This one kept my emotions running in all sorts of directions. I was never sure what was going to happen next and it hit on a lot of yoga information. Either the author did a lot of research or really enjoys yoga because she seemed to know what she was talking about. It was a lot of fun to read and I enjoyed it
This book completely blew my mind. The complete shock and utter disbelief left me reeling from its all too realistic storyline. Luna Saint Claire did a wonderful job writing this book with so much detail and ease. I was hooked. Even though just about all of the characters made me angry and want to slap them silly I could not put this book down. I was scared to see how it would all end.
The story is based around yoga instructor Nico and his many relationships with different women. Luna did an excellent job shaping each characters personality and displaying the level of narcissism and manipulation that each women went through. It was so sad it was almost tragic. There are people out there like this and I think Luna gave a great example of it in this book. I loved every minute of it while simultaneously hating Nico and these women. This book will definitely get to you psychologically.
I really enjoyed that this book was erotic, dark, and heartrending all in one. I don’t know how Luna made Nico so hot and alluring and oh so hot, but so terrible at the same time. I had so many different emotions running through me while I read this book and I guiltily loved every second of it. I have not read another book like this. I loved that it was different and something I have not read before and that it talks about a serious relationship issue. I applaud Luna Saint Claire for creating this masterpiece. She no doubt did her research. The amount of yoga information in this book totally blew me away. It made Nico seem not so bad at times because he was supposed to be this spiritual and kind person who could never do anything wrong. As much as I thought I had it all figured out, this book took me on a whirlwind of twists and one emotion to the next in a matter of seconds.
I highly recommend anyone read this book. I loved it.
I was surprised when I saw that this was a debut novel as ‘Sleeping Serpent’ by Luna Saint Claire is an extremely well written complex erotic thriller novel that hooks you from the start. It is a book that definitely gets you thinking and has you changing your opinions about the characters the further in the story you get.
Nico is a character that I loved to begin with but that changed quite a bit as the story went on. He is a sexy as hell, smooth talking yoga instructor that has women falling at his feet. For him they were a means to get what he wanted and he knew how to manipulate them. The emotions evoked by this character alone and what he got away with was almost enough to have me throwing my kindle but I just needed to know what happened.
I really enjoyed this book as it was something different from what I had been reading of late and had me gripped right to the end. I was emotionally involved with the characters and at times wished I could shake them or worse to bring them to their senses. The writing flowed and gripped you from the first chapter. This is not an easy book to read at times as it does bring out so much emotion, frustration, anger, fear that make it somewhat uncomfortable but at the same time that is what makes you keep reading.
This was not an easy book to write a review for as reading it had me twisted in knots and I had to think about how it made me feel and how I could describe that in a review. ‘Sleeping Serpent’ is not a book that you read and move onto the next straight away it needs time to digest and recover from reading. A brilliant debut novel and I can’t wait to read what else Luna Saint Claire has in store for us. She is definitely an author to watch. 5 stars for this book.