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The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt's acclaimed novel of a shapeshifter's struggle to survive as woman and wolf amid the Dark Ages, announced the arrival of a ferociously gifted writer. Now, with her masterful weaving of adventure, history, and magic, Borchardt delves deeper into the shape-shifter legend, and brings an earlier, more savage time brilliantly to life.
The fearsome legions of Julius Caesar have crushed resistance to Roman rule. The power of the druids is broken; the shattered tribes retreating to the dubious safety of the high mountains or fleeing north into lands as inhospitable as those left behind. Watching all the while through yellow eyes afire with curiosity and intelligence is Maeniel, a gray wolf . . . who is also a man.
This is not the Maeniel of The Silver Wolf. Not the mature shapeshifter, secure in his dual nature, whose hard-won wisdom is the equal of his preternatural strength and passion. That Maeniel will not exist for another eight hundred years. Now he is a stranger to his human half, his reason chained to instinct. Yet as the ancient civilization of the Gallic tribes is systematically destroyed around him, a new Maeniel is about to be born from the ruins.
It begins with a woman. She is Imona: young, proud, beautiful. The sight of her fills Maeniel with unfamiliar feelings and desires, triggering his transformation from wolf to man. In her arms he learns for the first time what it means to love. It is a knowledge that will change him forever. For when Imona vanishes following a Roman massacre, Maeniel begins to learn a very different lesson.
Following Imona's trail as wolf and man, Maeniel is himself pursued by a warrior woman sworn to kill him. She is Dryas, a queen without a kingdom. But the two adversaries will prove to have much in common. And the hunt upon which they embark will lead them farther than they can imagine: to the gates of Rome itself. To the gates of their very souls . . .
With Night of the Wolf, Alice Borchardt has given us another triumph of soaring imagination and adventure. By turns lyrical, sensuous, and violent, hers is a vision of the past that will stir both heart and mind. Her writing will possess you like a fever . . . and haunt you like a voluptuous dream.
Nacido lobo, Maeniel adquiere el poder de convertirse en hombre... pero no tardará en comprobar que el mundo de los humanos es mucho más complejo, salvaje y peligroso que las montañas en las que ha vivido hasta ahora. El ingenuo lobo hombre se ve envuelto en una serie de conspiraciones y venganzas, al tiempo que descubre el amor y la pasión de las mujeres, la fuerza y el odio de los hombres... y su propia capacidad para superarlos. Maeniel y sus compañeros viajarán de los bosques de la Galia al corazón de la Roma clásica en busca de aventuras, venganza y justicia, enfrentándose al poder de las legiones, el Senado y el mismo Julio César.
Having liked the first book in this series I really did want to like this one but it just didn't work for me. I found it quite hard to finish reading it.
I mean, this story should have been perfect for me, a story of werewolves in classical Rome with fun intrigue and paranormal elements. It ambled to the story and just seemed to need some serious editing to be a good story. ( )
While I recall the first of this series thrilling me with its Roman historicity and intrigue, I am left wondering if I enjoyed it so much because it was several years ago and my reading tastes were not nearly as refined, nor my sense of literary excellence so sharply honed. Borchardt really shares quite a lot with her sister Anne Rice in regards to style, meaning she tends toward the overwrought and over done. I wanted more from her characters, was rather bored with the usage of Caesar as a character and the plotting surrounding him, and felt like the historical detailing of food distracted from the flow of the novel - especially as I flipped through my unabridged Oxford dictionary to find out what piece of a pig's lower intestine they were consuming.
The wolfish perspective provided by Maeniel, the dark gray eyes of innocence who transitions from wolf to man, was the most fascinating part of the novel, something I enjoyed because urban fantasy written now is almost entirely built upon humans becoming wolves and not the other way around, something I've always felt was lacking. The potential for using that perspective as a commentary on our world is vast, but unfortunately, Borchardt did so only shallowly. ( )
Wow. This book is a stinker. Poorly written, with confusing changes of view point, it seems like the sole goal of this book was to cash in on the Anne Rice and/or Furry market. I picked it up for 50 cents at a local library booksale, and wish I hadn't. It is not often that I put a book down 50 pages in and decide not to read the rest, but this is so bad I did just that. ( )
Second book in the series. I thought it should have been first. Maeniel a wolf that shape shifts into a man finds love in the arms of Imona. But when she is killed he seeks revenge and is hunted by a warrior woman named Dryas. She binds him from transforming back into a wolf by wearing an enchanted necklace around her neck and teaches him to be human. Dryas' mission is to assassinate Caesar, who's tyranny has lead to the slavery and downfall of many people including hers. When Dryas is captured by Fulvia a woman who wants her to fight in her arena o please Caesar. Dryas thinks this might be her best chance to get close enough to Caesar to kill him. Before she is taken she throws the necklace into the fire releasing Maeniel. Maeniel follows her o Rome, where with the help of others they plan to assassinate Caesar. They get a copy of Caesar's death list and give it to Caesar's senate(many of whose names are on the list) Caesar is assassinated by the senate, Dryas finds love with Lucias(Fulvia's brother) and Maeniel story is to be continued.
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The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt's acclaimed novel of a shapeshifter's struggle to survive as woman and wolf amid the Dark Ages, announced the arrival of a ferociously gifted writer. Now, with her masterful weaving of adventure, history, and magic, Borchardt delves deeper into the shape-shifter legend, and brings an earlier, more savage time brilliantly to life.
The fearsome legions of Julius Caesar have crushed resistance to Roman rule. The power of the druids is broken; the shattered tribes retreating to the dubious safety of the high mountains or fleeing north into lands as inhospitable as those left behind. Watching all the while through yellow eyes afire with curiosity and intelligence is Maeniel, a gray wolf . . . who is also a man.
This is not the Maeniel of The Silver Wolf. Not the mature shapeshifter, secure in his dual nature, whose hard-won wisdom is the equal of his preternatural strength and passion. That Maeniel will not exist for another eight hundred years. Now he is a stranger to his human half, his reason chained to instinct. Yet as the ancient civilization of the Gallic tribes is systematically destroyed around him, a new Maeniel is about to be born from the ruins.
It begins with a woman. She is Imona: young, proud, beautiful. The sight of her fills Maeniel with unfamiliar feelings and desires, triggering his transformation from wolf to man. In her arms he learns for the first time what it means to love. It is a knowledge that will change him forever. For when Imona vanishes following a Roman massacre, Maeniel begins to learn a very different lesson.
Following Imona's trail as wolf and man, Maeniel is himself pursued by a warrior woman sworn to kill him. She is Dryas, a queen without a kingdom. But the two adversaries will prove to have much in common. And the hunt upon which they embark will lead them farther than they can imagine: to the gates of Rome itself. To the gates of their very souls . . .
With Night of the Wolf, Alice Borchardt has given us another triumph of soaring imagination and adventure. By turns lyrical, sensuous, and violent, hers is a vision of the past that will stir both heart and mind. Her writing will possess you like a fever . . . and haunt you like a voluptuous dream.
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