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S'està carregant… Night of the Wolf (Legends of the Wolves, Book 2) (edició 2000)de Alice Borchardt (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 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. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML: 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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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