Title: The Sleeping Serpent: A Woman’s Struggle to Break an Obsessive Bond with her Yoga Master
Author: Luna Saint Claire
Print Length: 428 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1928816762
Publisher: Compelled Books (October 19, 2015)
Publication Date: October 19, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B016LUUB1K
The Sleeping Serpent follows Hollywood costume designer Luna and several other women and their obsessions with their manipulative yoga instructor Nicolas or Nico. Appropriately titled, this book is deceptive on many levels. First, I picked it up as a psychological read but it can easily fall into erotica just the same so that was a bit of a surprise. (As I don’t usually review Erotica but since its not technically in the Erotica category we’ll let it slide).
Nico uses Chakra and Kundalini magic to put women under a spell that makes them cling to him in more ways than one. Falling victim to his elegant speech, smooth words, sex, and laced tea, the women become drawn to him without realizing it. Not only do they allow him to abuse them physically and emotionally, but they also invest in him financially and comes under the captivity of doing whatever he wants them to do and despite how he berates them, the women cannot get enough.
Nico is not just a yoga instructor. Nico is a warlock, a sleeping serpent preying on the vulnerability of successful women in an attempt to turn them into his mother. I think the most powerful portrayal of Nico’s spell is over Luna herself. While she is not as clingy as the other women and on occasion tells him how it is, I feel that the mental hold Nico has on her is stronger than the physical hold he has on the other women. Though married, Luna will drop everything to be with him.
The book is written well and maintains good pacing, although after a while I did start to think the story was just repeating itself as Nico captivated woman after woman and sexes them crazy.
I would recommend this book to lovers of Erotica, Romance, and Psychological Thrillers. (I’m starting to really like these psycho reads! Wait, does that make me a psycho??)
Ratings:
Plot Movement / Strength: 4/5
Entertainment Factor: 4/5
Characterization: 5/5
Authenticity / Believable: 4/5
Thought Provoking: 5/5
Overall Rating: 4 / 5
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Check out this review of the book, The Sleeping Serpent, by Luna Saint Claire, from The PBS Blog.
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Thanks for sharing! 👍
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You’re welcome
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I must have missed seeing this!! But thank you Yecheilyah for the awesome review! And Don, thank you for sharing! I will pop over there and say hi!!
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You’re welcome hun 😎
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You’re welcome.
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Excellent review EC. I’m currently reading Luna’s book and like you, I thought it was a pyschological thriller, but could very well be considered erotica/psyche – maybe a new genre? 🙂 Regardless, I’m hooked, only 100 pages in. 🙂
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Right? She’s talented for sure. Enjoy! Let us know your final thoughts 😎
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Thanks EC, I will. 🙂
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