Unhallowed Rites

by Martine Marquand

Allegra di Vitale is bored with life in her guardian's Venetian palazzo. When she discovers curious pictures in her guardian's private chamber, she is awakened to her womanhood. To deny these passions... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0352332220
• ISBN13: 9780352332226
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Black Lace
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A Good Steamy Read

Allegra is an uptight conventional girl who unleashes her passionate nature after snooping on her guardian's erotic art and tries to cleanse herself by moving into a convent. After she realizes that she has been placed in an institution that revels in sexual depravity rather than the strict convent she thought it would be she plunges into a world of sexual exploration and delight. She becomes particularly close to another young resident at the convent named Celina. She and Celina become passionate lovers and there is hardly a sex scene in the book that does not involve her throughout the rest of the book. The book has several passionate sex scenes and really was a good read. So why four stars? Overall while I did like the book unfortunately I do not care for all the lesbian encounters Allegra had with Celina. I am keeping the book only because I like the m/f sex in the book. One or two encounters wouldn't have bothered me, but just about every scene drove me crazy. If you are not into the f/f sex do not get this book. However I still say it was an excellent Black Lace novel.

This book epitomizes dark erotica

As an avid reader of erotic fiction & after digesting a vast number of books, this book has remained one of my favorites, ...I find it to be a great example of period erotica. Set in Spain, it explores the journey of a young woman who went from a luxurious pampered life to a cold sadistic, sexually deviant convent. Where her innocence was quite literally shattered...but this experience instead of being a horrible mentally scarring smudge in her life, leads to a bold new existance where she discovers that for her there are no sexual limitations...she metamorphs from the shy timid girl she was into a wildly sensual being, who indulges in public encounters with multiple partners, to enjoying with wild abandon an orgy of purchased flesh...a must have book...