Amarantha

by R.L. McCallum

Justin Griffith has a dream girl and she has been lasciviously haunting his slumber since childhood. As a teen, he becomes fixated on the ethereal girl, obsessed to the point that he cannot maintain a healthy relationship with any tangible female. Eventually marrying his pregnant high school sweetheart, Justin discovers that his love and libido are still raging for the girl he fears he will never meet. Approaching his twenty-fourth birthday, he finally finds his dream girl on a bus ride to work one morning, but though perfectly fitted to his desires he comes to believe that the strange girl is a horrifying curse, one that is diligently dedicated to his destruction.

132 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2013

Reviews

[Claire Reviews · Rating 1 out of 5]

This novella has obviously been written by someone with little comprehension of the English language; the grammatical and punctuation errors, not to mention the spelling mistakes, make this really hard to read. There is also a huge over-use of long words, as if the author has found our longest and most rarely used words, and put them in place of less complex words that would have been perfectly adequate. Present and past tenses are muddled throughout and the story does not flow well.
The storyline has paranormal aspects within a (supposedly) erotic tale of a ghostly virginal young girl who sets about seducing our main character, Justin. The sex scenes are written crudely, with more than a hint of paedophilia - Amarantha looks as young as eleven despite being eighteen, and wears a schoolgirls uniform. The descriptive language used is clumsy and unappealing; the sex scenes are gross rather than erotic.
This novella does not have any imagination, it is predictable and unbelievable. I wouldn't recommend it, despite it being free (at the time that I downloaded it.)