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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345423634
ISBN number: 0345423631
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: June 06, 2000
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: June 06, 2000
Sale Popularity Level: 85849
Studio: Ballantine Books
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The fearsome legions of Julius Caesar have crushed resistance to Roman rule. Watching the tragic aftermath through orange eyes afire with curiosity and intelligence is Maeniel, a gray wolf . . . and a shapeshifter unaware of his preternatural duality. But a new Maeniel is about to be born from the ruins.
The sight of the beautiful Imona fills Maeniel with unfamiliar feelings and desires, triggering his transformation from wolf to man. In her arms he learns what it means to love. It is a knowledge that will change him forever. When Imona vanishes, Maeniel follows her trail--unaware that he is being pursued by a warrior-woman sworn to kill him. But the hunt upon which the two adversaries embark will lead them farther than they can imagine: to the gates of Rome itself--to the gates of their very souls . . .
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Night of the Wolf interweaves a tale of the Roman Empire with magic, romance, and--lycanthropy. It follows The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt's absorbing story of the coming of age of a young woman who must learn to control and enjoy her wild side within the exotic setting of decadent Rome. This sequel begins by focusing on a mysterious figure from The Silver Wolf, Maeniel, a wolf who must contend with being a part-time human. Some of the other characters are magical in their own ways, such as Dryas, a warrior queen and priestess of the Caledoni. Others are resolutely human, such as Lucius, a Roman noble who finds himself at the mercy of Caesar and Cleopatra. Maeniel gradually begins to understand the quirks of human nature and in time finds that all roads lead to Rome, where Caesar's life is in the hands of Maeniel and his allies. With an adventurous plot, an unusual historical background, and a large helping of steamy sex scenes, this series should be much to the taste of fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon or Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. --Blaise Selby
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I love the Borchadt novels, though sometimes it is tough to keep track of all the details. It is worth it though, she pulls all together in the end.
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I personally tried to like this novel, however, it's a hard book to really like if you're not a novice to Roman history, or ANY history pertaining to that time, because skeptics will find this a hard book to totally believe. For starters, it's more of a `prequel' to "The Silver Wolf", not necessarily a sequel. It talks about how Maeniel became the shapeshifter he is in "The Silver Wolf". With a few added love here and there. However...
The book talks about a certain female deity who was responsible for Maeniel turning to man, but it's never explained how it became so, so forget figuring that out; it's never provided. Maeniel's struggle to become man is short-lived, as the book is dedicated to a bunch of static characters who really don't do much to the plot to drive it forward. The love interest Maeniel has with doomed Imona was interesting, but Dryas, a claimed "Amazon" who must seduce Maeniel and train him to be the key to assassinating Caesar, was the anti-climax of the whole novel. The dialogue is something to be laughed at, since it's corny and half-felt at best.
Yes, this is supposed to be about Maeniel, but rarely so. We find out that the book is dedicated to mostly Dryas trying to rebuild her slowly disappearing culture and save it from the claws of Caesar, to Caesar himself, to Lucius and his power-hungry sister Fulvia. All of these characters meet, but poorly done. Lucilus, a kind-hearted man who plans to have no intermingling with any politics, finds himself in love with Dryas when she is very first brought in to be used as sport in the fighting ring. This, my friends, is a poorly done anti-climax, and clearly out of his character.
Women in Rome were not treated in such dirt as the author intends to tell you. Roman women had rights, but that never seems to be the case in her stories at all, women treated like slaves, which was not truly so. Amazons, like Dryas, do not intermingle with men in harmony, of course, but Dryas states that an Amazon is a warrior woman. Not true, at least, not in a historical point of view. Homosexuality in the story is laughable at best, due to the fact that Romans back then did not discriminate against sex: they took lovers of different age and sex. The fact that the Romans seem squirmy with same-sex, and how Lucilus seems surprised that homosexuality is even possible, is a flinch to those who know Roman history well. If you can stomach the many historical flaws in this novel, you might like this, but even if you took that concept out alone, you would find a novel that promises less than what you wanted, with cardboard-characters, lame dialogue, awkward mistakes, and less Maeniel.
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Alice Borchardt shared a childhood of storytelling with her sister, the best selling novelist Anne Rice, in New Orleans. A professional nurse, she has also nurtured a profound interest in little-known periods of history. She published her debut novel, 'Devoted', in 1995.
As the powerful might of the legions of Rome sweep across Gaul, a land steeped in the ancient teaching of the Druid religion, an epic battle erupts between the shape shifter Manael, a werewolf, and Dryas, the powerful Druid priestess summoned to destroy him.
This werewolf fantasy is cleverly entwined with the story of Julius Caesar's conquering of ancient Gaul and will appeal both to reader's of fantasy books and those who like historical novels.
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Not my favorite of the three books to be honest. Granted it does give a great bit of Maniel's background, as per his transformation from wolf to man...but it didn't really give a clear explaination as to how...or really why. You understand the underlining causes, but it still seems very vague, as if the author skimmed over it and hoped we wouldn't notice.
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This book is a great book about werewolves. These are not those monsters you see in so many books and movies, but powerful and elegant creatures, for the most part anyway. Alice Borchardt's protaganist is Maeniel, a werewolf. This focuses on him and his pack, of which he is the leader. (He is connected to Guinevere the Warrior Queen in Ms. Borchardt's other books.) A great deal of research on ancient Rome was done as well. The details is incredible and sometimes not for the squeamish.
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