Dangerous. Unstable. Obsessive.She believes in fairytales and awaits her prince. But I arrive at her doorstep and I’m far from royalty. The shiver down my back tells me he’s there. As if he were touching me. Cold, angry, aloof—he’s everything I don’t need. But I can’t turn off my attraction when he’s near.My sleeping beauty doesn’t realize just how dangerous I am. She trusts so easily, smiles so … dangerous I am.
She trusts so easily, smiles so beautifully. And while she sleeps, I watch.
With each passing night, I become more addicted.
Until I’m a man obsessed.
I feel his gaze on me, watching while I sleep.
He pushes me away in the light, but in the dark, he comes to me like a moth to a flame.
I crave it. He doesn’t know just how broken I am.
I believed she was the light to my darkness.
But it turns out my sleeping beauty likes to dive into the shadows alongside me.
She’s mine, but that decision could kill us both.
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This is the third book in the “Dirty Heroes Collection”. Each are written and can be read as a standalone. If you haven’t started this series yet, this is the premise: “Once upon a time, a scorned queen opened a box, unleashing horrible evil on the world’s heroes. Instead of gallantry and chivalry, they now possessed much more perverse traits. They’ve fallen victim to their darkest and most deviant desires. These are their stories …” I always enjoy a Daní Renee book, and this was no exception. A dark, mysterious take on ‘Sleeping Beauty’ with a bit of kink. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys adult romance.
Wow what a book is all I can say just blows me away. This story is why I love Dani’s writing so much she has such a way of sucking you in and teasing you with the dark and deliciously naughty thing’s they do. This is the adult version of Sleeping Beauty that your mama forgot to warn you about. I absolutely loved these character’s Logan and his Beauty (Vera) not to give anything away here, but you seriously need to get this book. If you like those dark, delicious and twisted reads you’ll love this, oh and there’s a few lil surprises in here as well. Get this book.
Rating:
Sleeping Beauty and her Broken Prince!
A twisted fairy tale of a Mafia prince who was promised a ten year old girl to marry on the day she turns eighteen. The arrangement set up between his father, the King of Chicago and his father’s best friend. The Prince decided he wanted nothing to do with the kind of kingdom his father ruled over and ran away but never forgot the girl that was promised to him.
I enjoyed this twisted fairy tale but there were certain things about the story that didn’t quite make sense or maybe were over-complicated or even a bit too coincidental to make sense. So I’m trying to figure out how to structure this review and be able to give you that information without saying too much.
What I Liked about this book:
The way the romance between Logan (Screen Name:Broken Prince) and Vera (Screen Name: Sleeping Beauty) began as an online relationship on a web site for people with fetishes or kinks that are outside the norm. They seemed to have the same fantasy in common and while Sleeping Beauty sees it as dark and deviant but basically allows herself to fantasize, Broken Prince thinks it makes him a monster.
When they got together the romance between Logan and Vera was extremely hot. Though Logan seemed overly tortured at times. I liked the pace and the background given. I liked that Logan was a stalker and wanted to protect her. I liked that Logan was afraid his deviant desires would overtake him and he would hurt her so he was cautious despite the fact that Vera was unafraid.
What I didn’t like about this book:
I didn’t like the fact that Vera seemed so much more grown up and clear headed than Logan. I get tortured and moody, but sometimes he seemed a bit of a wimp. I mean he went on about hurting her when she was sitting right there saying look at me, I’m fine, you didn’t hurt me. Though I did like the pace of the relationship, it took Logan a bit too long to see that he wasn’t really a monster.
There were several things that needed further explanation. For example when the were first online as SB and BP, it seemed that they just found each other randomly on a dark site because they had similar sexual fantasies and needs. However when Logan comes to the town where Vera lives and sees her, it seems like he’s been keeping tabs on her ever since she ran away from Chicago when she turned eighteen. So was he stalking her on the web or was it all a coincidence?
Then I just didn’t get some of the things that happened later in the book. I didn’t understand all of the motivations behind why certain people did certain things. Like when his father finally caught up with them. Why did he do what he did at the cabin? It didn’t really make much sense to me with how things turned out later. Though I have some thoughts, I just wish it was made more clear.
Overall I liked the story, it was a good twisted fairy tale/stalker/captive romance with a bit of strange kink added in.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
The angst and chaos in While She Sleeps made this story addictive and hard to put down. The characters were so incredibly in sync but they struggled and pushed against their connection. But fate has a way of making things work not matter how hard you try to stop it from happening.
This book was absolutely amazing retelling of Sleeping Beauty with Dani’s little twist. This Authors’ writing has blown me away and I believe she is just getting better and better.
This book was absolutely amazing retelling of Sleeping Beauty with Dani’s little twist. This Authors’ writing has blown me away and I believe she is just getting better and better.
A dark twist on a traditional fairytale is what Logan and Vera have provided while we take a ride through the past and into the present day with them. While She Sleeps is filled with passion, suspense and of course dark and dirty desires. No matter how Logan saw himself I couldn’t bring myself to feel the same way at times, I understood Vera’s point of view at times but also wanted to scream to open up her eyes. There’s a point in this tale that took me for a complete loop and left my jaw slack from the twist and secrets revealed. Make sure you add this book to your TBR list, you will not be disappointed.
This steamy retelling of Sleeping Beauty was a cat and mouse game of the most dark and scintillating kind! BP and SB both have very unique tastes and desires, and it takes them getting to know each other from afar to figure out that they really are more similar than they thought.
Even though Logan was older than Vera, I felt as though she was the more mature, sensible person. Logan wasn’t quite the alpha male I was expecting, but he kept a good hold of his secrets, and the agony of his wanting Vera and not thinking he was good enough fell a tiny bit flat. But in the end, I was glad to see that Logan got his head on straight, and he and Vera finally gave in to their desires.
“I’m not sure how many times I’ve said it but retellings are so my thing and of course I wanted to read this book. René was a new author to me and I wasn’t used to her writing style but I’m so pleased of what I read. Sleeping beauty with a mafia prince. As you can guess this book was a bliss. I’m not gonna lie, there were some specific situations in the story that I wasn’t certain about them. I’m not quite sure how to express them… confusing, not logical? Though the plot was amazing.
A Sleeping Beauty and a Broken Prince hot romance. Vera was a complicated character to me and it’s not as easy as I thought it would be to explain her character. Logan on the other hand was a broken prince and I wanted to rum my fingers on his head and hug him so tight. He had a torture aura and a protecting side that made him so appealing. Their relationship was hot and somehow out of the norm but that made things perfect.
Anyway, I do liked the story, it was twisted, dark and unconventional with some dots of stalking. Which I must said there weren’t as scary as I though they would be. Stalkers scare me like few other things so I was reluctant about keep reading it but I finished it and like I said I’m pleased of what I read.”
I bought this book via Amazon and am leaving my review voluntarily. This story is part of the Dirty Heroes Collection but can be read as a standalone. (Characters from the authors Forbidden Series have brief appearances)
Triggers: murder, stalking, forced drugging
**spoilers**
Logan, the Broken Prince…at 18 his father brings him to meet his future bride, who is only 10. Logan walks away in digust.
Vera, her prince shows up and she hopes he will rescue her but instead he walks away without a backward glance.
Fast forward 8 years. Vera know her father is not a good man. He signs a contract binding Vera to the Broken Prince’s father. A vile, evil man.
Vera’s father is arrested, she goes in the run.
Two years pass, Vera is online speaking with someone about her dark desires. He seems to share similar feelings. She doesn’t realize it is her Prince.
Blah blah stuff happens. HEA
Overall, good read about Sleeping Beauty. I like that this is a kinky, slightly dark story. Some brief sexy time. This author is a favorite of mine.
I liked Logan right away. Vera was okay, at times she plain annoyed me. (Girl, you run away to hide. Going so far to get a new i.d. but while in hiding, you want to speak with your dad? You know he isn’t a good man…you use the internet knowing the bad guy is looking for you…I hate when the h turns into a TSTL character.) I was fine with the rest of the story.
Wow, Ms. Rene did it once again! I thought this would not be the case where I would swoon over MCs, but… Here I am begging for more of Logan and Vera.
Two troubled souls that need different things for their passion, so different yet, so alike! Will they find what they need in each other? Or love is not in their fates?
Fasten your seatbelt for the end as it will be something that almost made me drop my precious kindle!!!
This book has left me speechless. It had so much of what I love but was also so very different from anything I’ve read before. It was a combination of the hero being the dominant one as well as the heroine being the one to save him. The twists and turns are another part that kept me turning the pages. Every character in this book left a lasting impression on me and I hope the author will be writing their stories as well. I’ll be looking forward to them.
What an amazing way to re-tell the tale as old as time…. Aamazing,brilliant…. One of my favorite tales is Sleeping Beauty and I enjoyed it’s retelling immensely….
While She Sleeps is unlike anything I have ever read. Now if you have ever read Dani that is not an unusual sentence. But Dani brings to light something I have never heard of before in a sexual need and I have to say it is very interesting. And to bring it into a sleeping beauty theme, it is genius!
Logan and Vera are your Prince and Beauty and man they are awesome. I feel for both of them right away. I want them to be together, I want them to fall in love no matter what and to see each other for what they could have not for the problems and issues they have. That is the kind of feelings you feel for them while reading. Dani draws you into their lives and makes you want to stay.
While She Sleeps is a wonderful story to this collection and I was so happy to read it!
Dani gives the reader Logan and Vera and sleeping beauty like you’ve never imagined. Logan has very different sexual tastes and after much searching finds a woman online who is his perfect match. There is a twist in this tale that makes it even more interesting. A dark kinky retelling of a much loved classic.
Not your Disney’s Sleeping Beauty that we have all grew up on, that’s for damn sure!
Twisted
Magical- in it’s cynical way that Dani spins her tales.
Logan and Vera take your mind and rework it, crafting a new dark and delicious way to think of our Disney story in a different light. Sweet passion is not justifiable within While She Sleeps- It’s raw, different and unique than anything that I have read this year. So, keep one eye open as someone might just be lurking in your shadows as well.
Undeniable writing, engaging characters that have you craving for more. Hats off to Dani!
While She Sleeps by Dani René was a great 5 star read.
She was 10 years old when she met the man that she had been promised to. He was a Mafia prince but he didn’t want anything to do with his dad’s dark world and left. We jump ahead a few years.
Vera ran away to avoid the man her father had promised her to. She ends up meeting a man online that has the same twisted fantasies that she does. They connect on so many levels. When they finally agree to meet Vera eventually figures out who Logan is. When he finds out his father has found Vera, Logan has no choice but to take her and keep her safe.
As we move forward you can feel the attraction building between these two. We get some very heated scenes. Some were interesting, especially the scene where Vera takes something that puts her in a deep sleep. There are some unexpected twists and turns that added a great element to the story.
Overall this was a great dark read about two lost souls that found each other again. I would consider this a twisted sleeping beauty story of sorts. I loved both characters. If you like dark romance with some kink and dark sexual fantasies this is your book. 1-click and get started today.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
4.75 stars
This is the third book in the Dirty Heroes Collection and it is one engrossing read. It can be read as a standalone. It is a dark version of the classic Sleeping Beauty with mafia undertones. Years ago, Logan met his intended bride when she was only ten years old. He walked away never thinking to return when fate intervened. Vera has never felt normal as she escaped from her family when she turned eighteen and her father was sent to prison. Looking for love, she winds up on the dark web where she encounters Logan. After chatting briefly, they realize that they may be a good fit for each other but Logan fears that his former beastly tendencies will resurface making him ill-suited for Vera. The chemistry between the two characters is explosive. This is one book that will enthrall readers as the tale is spun along with an exciting twist at the end that is not to be missed. I volunteered to read an advance copy of this book.
This is the third book in the multi-author Dirty Heroes Collection. Every book is independent of one another. While She Sleeps in an adult, modern interpretation of Sleeping Beauty. I’ve never read/seen the real sleeping beauty, so I wasn’t too excited about this story but I think Dani Rene did a kick-ass job of bringing it to 2020. There was an interesting kind of mystery in the story and it included all the hot, steamy scenes we’re always looking for. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys adult romance.
I received an e-copy of this book from Enticing Journey Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
This is a story about two broken people who are trying to find comfort in each other. Our Hero is part of the Mafia family and was to marry the Heroine only after finding out that she was ten years old he refuses and leaves. Only years later he encounters her again the only thing is for him to truly enjoy sexual encounters she has to pretend to be asleep which is fine by her overall it was a good story.