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Summary: Heart-thumping entertainment!
Review: Hello? This is FANTASY, folks. Richly-detailed, character-driven, heroic fantasy written in an epic voice. If I need a history lesson, I'll read a nonfiction book. If I want an edge-of-the-seat, action-packed, sexy escape into another world, I'll read books by Alice Borchardt.
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Summary: Obviously those who didn't like it, didn't read carefully
Review: I bought the hard cover copy of this book and inside the front flap, it states that the Maeniel in this book had nothing to with the one in Silver Wolf. This story takes place "800 years" before the Maeniel in Silver Wolf. Night of the Wolf isn't suppose to be a sequal to Silver Wolf, so those who have read it shouldn't think that way and just take the book as a stand alone novel. Silver Wolf is about a shapeshifting woman, Night of the Wolf is about a shapeshifting man. I love Alice's writing and loved this book. Judge for youself.
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Summary: well gonna tell it's good
Review: i don't have to say much..
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Summary: Couldn't Finish It
Review: I enjoyed The Silver Wolf, but Night of the Wolf just didn't go anywhere. The story surrounding the wolf character was boring and the stories about the other characters were confusing. Perhaps those who persevered into the second half were rewarded. I couldn't get there.I'm glad it was a library book. I won't be trying Ms. Borchardt again.
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Summary: Couldn't Finish It
Review: I enjoyed The Silver Wolf, but Night of the Wolf just didn't go anywhere. The story surrounding the wolf character was boring and the stories about the other characters were confusing. Perhaps those who persevered into the second half were rewarded. I couldn't get there. I'm glad it was a library book. I won't be trying Ms. Borchardt again.
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Summary: hardly readable
Review: I expect so much from the concept, and yet I am more disapointed each time I read another of this author's books. This one had great potential, but I consistently and almost immeidiately found myself wondering about the plot connections ( they were vague to say the least) and just what was really going on. I did slog though it,skipping huge sections, hoping to get more insight into to wolf, but I feel Maniel was not developed nearly as completly as he could have been, and that certain love story elements were created at the very end just as an afterthought. I could go on, but I would not recommend this book, which is too bad, as the concept is great and the time period is interesting, but the author: frankly I am amazed that she can get published. Very disapointing.
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Summary: Sometimes you just have to say, "Huh?"
Review: I found this book by accident while looking for some new historical fiction with another key word added on...Julius Caesar. Up pops this book...."Night of the Wolf". I read the summary, and figured...wolf, druids, and Caesar...might as well give it a try. While reading it, the author would jump to this and jump back to that without ever really giving the reader a chance to know what the heck was going on. I realize that this is sometimes used very well, but in this instance, it just confused parts of the story. As with other reviewers, I wish the author had taken more time with the wolf character, Maeniel. Instead of growing throughout the story, he ends the same 'innocent' he was in the beginning. Sure, he has gained some experience being human, and learning what it is to 'be' human, but none of this was explored the way it should have been. Frankly, I started to get more interested in the Dryas character than the wolf. By the last part of the book, Maeniel was relegated the part of a supporting player rather than the lead he started out as. Also, I will have to say, the author wrote Julius Caesar in a very 'interesting' way. I don't agree or much like it, but it did make me think. I still have hope though...I'm waiting for my copy of "The Silver Wolf". Hope it's better than this one.
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Summary: ROMANTIC, MESMERIZING,BRUTAL, AND LUSH
Review: I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE ONE OF PURE NATURE, IF I WERE NOT IN THE ERA AND TIME OF TODAY, I WOULD BE LOST IN THE ARMS OF MAENIEL AND HIS ADVENTURES WITH HIS COHORTS. THE NOVEL WAS ONE OF ANOTHER INTRICATE AND HYPNOTICLY WRITTEN MASTERPIECE. THANK YOU FOR THE PLEASURE IN READING THIS, AND I HOPE FOR FURTHER LITATURE TO INDULGE IN.PLEASE KEEP THE NOVELS ALIVE WITH THE CHARACTERS YOU HAVE CREATED, ALL THE BOOKS ARE OPEN ENDED.
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Summary: interesting but inferior 2nd in the series
Review: I found this prequel/sequel to be a bit hard to follow at times. Jumping from the long distant past to the present and from wolf to man made the beginning 1/2 of the book very difficult to read. I forced myself to continue and was glad that I did when I found a powerful 2nd half. If only Ms. Borchardt had been able to carry that quality throughout the entire novel. This book follows the earlier exploits of Maeniel who was a secondary character to Regeane in THE SILVER WOLF. It again primarily takes place in Rome, but now at the time of the great Caesar. I was overjoyed to find wonderful characterizations on every page. Lucius- the roman noble, Dryas-the female warrior, and surprisingly Caesar's wife Calpurnia were delights, but so little was learned about Maeniel himself. The story revolving around him was so much more interesting than he was. If you had removed him all together I would still have found this an interesting storyline. Maybe then we could have avoided all of the confusion in the first half of the book. I have yet to read THE WOLF KING which reverts to Maeniel's life with Regeane, but I can only hope that the author keeps the strong characters and plot and loses some of the wordy confusing attempts to make us understand what it is like to be a werewolf with all it's mysticality. It just doesn't work.
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Summary: Gave up after 150 pages
Review: I hardly ever put down a book prematurely once I start it, but I found I had no interest in the characters, therefore I didn't care what happened to them. So I quit. Seems to me like there should be some evidence of a plot by where I was in the book, but unless it was a love story (gag), I couldn't discern it. The only reason I bought this book was the relation to A.Rice. Big mistake. Too bad too, because the first 75 pages or so started off great. She can definitely write well, she just needs more of a story to build on. Like what kind of creature is this wolf? No clues were given.
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