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Ravishing Rita: A Tale of Terror (eBook)
| Ravishing Rita: A Tale of Terror | |
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 Ravishing Rita: A Tale of Terror eBook Cover, written by Owen Carlysle | |
| Author(s) | Owen Carlysle |
| Series | Thirteen Monsters |
| Publisher | Thirteen Books |
| Publication date | May 8, 2023 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 12 Pages |
| ASIN | B0C4RWLQH1 |
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Ravishing Rita: A Tale of Terror is an eBook written by Owen Carlysle. It is the fifth work in the Thirteen Monsters series by this author. In this work the character Rita can be described as being a Succubus.
Overview
- Title: Ravishing Rita: A Tale of Terror
- Author: Owen Carlysle
- Published By: Thirteen Books
- Length: 12 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0C4RWLQH1
- Publishing Date: May 8, 2023
Plot Summary
She's beautiful, way out of his league. He's about to learn getting lucky isn't all that lucky after all.
Book Review
The following review was originally published by Tera on her Blog, A Succubi's Tale on July 25, 2023
Tony does love going to the strip club. It’s not hard to get what he wants, and there’s always a stripper willing for the right price. But Rita catches his eye, and makes him an offer he can’t refuse. If there’s one thing he’s sure of, he’ll never forget her.
The work is a very slow burn mixture of erotic heat that allows the more horrific aspects to creep in around the edges rather unexpectedly. It isn’t outright horror, there is one moment that provides shock value, but otherwise the horror comes from what it being told and the realization just before the climax of who Rita is and why Tony got lucky.
The way that Rita’s dialogue is used to toy and play both with Tony and the reader, keeping the truth at bay, is really well done. There’s an impending doom that sneaks in, line by line, until everything comes at once. There’s no rush to get to the end of the story overall and that is what really makes things work so very well.
Rita, who is the succubus of the work, isn’t openly that. She hints and teases her way into Tony’s mind, and that of another character, until she plays them like puppets as her revelations come to the fore. The shifting of her character is delicious in how the change is so subtle to be unstoppable. There’s a good deal of character being revealed in the story she tells as the erotica heats up and how that creates a whisper of dread which grows wildly is very telling about her.
The slow burn of what’s revealed about Rita, what happens to Tony, the realization of how inevitable things are is perfectly told. There are many times when a story is too short, leaving something behind in the wake of what little space there is. That’s not true here, everything works so very well together by far.
Four out of five pitchforks.
A very good read, don’t let the suggestion of horror get in the way of enjoying what is a unique and delightful tale. It would be interesting for another story about Rita to appear, something that focuses on what came next. It’s an interesting thought to consider.