- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Voyager; New edition edition (5 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006483860
- ISBN-13: 978-0006483861
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.8 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 599,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Night of the Wolf comes with rave recommendations from Anne Rice just like Alice Borchardt's debut werewolf fantasy The Silver Wolf did--perhaps not entirely unbiased, since Rice and Borchardt are sisters. The story begins in ancient Gaul amid druid-led Celts now brutally subdued by Julius Caesar. Shape-shifting man-wolf Mananiel, leader of a wolf pack, discovers human love in powerfully sensual scenes that emphasise the wolf's piercing animal awareness, especially of smells. When something bad happens to his lady, Mananiel becomes a vengeful manhunter until the Caledonian woman warrior Dryas imposes a terrible, magical bondage on him. Imperial Rome is the ultimate source of their troubles, Rome and Caesar ... so the action shifts there, with much sophistication, banter, decadence, political intrigue and rapid-action arena scenes. Dryas unwillingly fights deadly beasts to amuse Caesar, Cleopatra, Antony and others, while Mananiel finds a most unexpected lover. Meanwhile, we have mystical glimpses of a realm outside time, a wood beyond the world which each major character briefly visits. In a prophecy unrecorded by history, the Goddess herself speaks through Dryas to tell Caesar his options in this year of 44 BC, and there's considerable irony in his choice. Night of the Wolf is enjoyable both as dark fantasy and as a historical novel: Borchardt deserves to outsell her more famous sister. --David Langford
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‘A daring and vibrant new voice on the female literary frontier – a writer with the vision and scope to conjure up her own thrilling mythos and the craftsmanship to render it in breathtaking, shimmering prose… The Silver Wolf is a stunning initiation into a dark and dazzling realm’
Anne Rice
‘A marvellous tale, it is a thriller, tragedy, horror and eventually a fairy-tale love story’
Telegraph
‘Borchardt reaches descriptive and dramatic peaks with Regeane’s vulpine supersenses as she noses about Rome by night, reading the dead city’s skin and air. Top-flight fantasy’
Kirkus Reviews
‘A vividly written story. I really got into it’
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
By far, this is the most specatcular read I have ever come across. The half-wolf/half-man, Maeniel; not only has to battle with the strange race of creatures he is forced into (i.e. Humanity), but he has to fight the war raging inside his own mind as he is torn between his natural home of the forests and woodland of Druidic Gaul, and the new and exciting world of the Humans he feels so compelled to explore.
Borchardt's attention to detail is flawless, and her descriptions will take you deep into her World, the World of ancient Rome.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The previous reviewer is right. If you're looking for something like Anne Rice, this isn't it.
Which is good, because I personally think Anne Rice's books are 2 dimensional and brimming with clichés.
Alice Borchardt on the other hand has a talent for weaving history and mythology into a delightful world of wolves and magic.
Her characters have depth and resonance that is frequently missing in much Supernatural fiction (Classed as such due to the werewolf angle).
I've been very impressed with the sense of realism and attention to detail that Alice Borchardt puts into her Roman era books and I highly recommend them for anyone who is looking for something with a little more depth.
Which is good, because I personally think Anne Rice's books are 2 dimensional and brimming with clichés.
Alice Borchardt on the other hand has a talent for weaving history and mythology into a delightful world of wolves and magic.
Her characters have depth and resonance that is frequently missing in much Supernatural fiction (Classed as such due to the werewolf angle).
I've been very impressed with the sense of realism and attention to detail that Alice Borchardt puts into her Roman era books and I highly recommend them for anyone who is looking for something with a little more depth.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I *did* enjoy this book - the style is sensual, the werewolves' world hypnotic and imaginative, and the verismultitude of the ancient world she describes is compelling.
However, Borchardt has certain issues with keeping her characters' motivations and personalities consistent, and sometimes she over-emphasises their reactions (people gape, scream, and gasp when merely being a little suprised would do) and, compared to the richness and imaginativeness of the descriptions and situations in the book, the people inhabiting them occasionally seem rather contrived.
For instance, Lucilla and Hadrian lurch haltingly between displaying friendship and enmity to the heroine, without much internal consistency. Lucilla, in the course of one conversation, is exulting one minute and completely miserable the next, while Regeane's evil uncle is never really characterised at all - he's just this cypher for evil. It all gives the peculiar impression that the characters are all suffering from some form of manic depression. That said, there is a lot to appreciate here too - Maeniel is a likeable figure, as is Regeane (though in truth after her engagement her cringing relations with her uncle seem rather unbelievable).
I would read another in this series, but to be honest Borchardt could do with much more fastidious editing and a firmer grasp of her characters.
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