Reviewed by Dee
TITLE: Another Creature
AUTHOR: Valerie Brundage
PUBLISHER: Torquere Press
LENGTH: 35 Pages
BLURB:
Luanne and her husband were planning to renovate a seaside cottage together, but she has moved in alone after discovering Alan’s infidelity. Not that she doesn’t have sexual secrets of her own. But now, distraught by her loneliness and the mystery of the open sea, her dreams are haunted by the vision, voice, and touch of a tentacled creature, the Melusine of lore that has always been rumored in the region.
Is its unnatural touch on Luanne and the seduction in its voice real? Luanne’s lesbian friend Karen comes to console her, and the heat and promise of their past illicit relationship return. But the legend is real, and the Melusine wants Luanne for itself. But Luanne can’t resist Karen’s sexual advances, and she’s not sure who (or what) really loves her, and whose arms will protect her forever
REVIEW:
This story starts with Luanne in the seaside cottage, her dreams about a sex creature and wondering if the place was haunted. How I didn’t realize this would lead to tentacle sex I have no clue, but yes be warned there is indeed tentacle sex in this novella.
I had a clearer image of the Melusine that I did of any of the characters. Her features were well described, her eyes mentioned at least six times. Yet, I do not recall reading one descriptor of any of the other three characters. I couldn’t tell you their hair color, eye color, stature, nada! I guess you could say they were one dimensional, I felt nothing for any of the characters!
There are a number of time jumps that didn’t make sense to me, and well quite frankly the entire story was lost on me! The ending was a ‘what the hell’ moment and not in a good way, it was a ‘what the hell did I just read’! Thinking I missed something I read the story from start to finish again hoping knowing the ending things would fall into place. Sadly for me, they didn’t.
The story is not dreadful, per say. I’d definitely be open to trying something else by this author, maybe something more main stream. My rating is for originality and not having any glaring grammatical errors.
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