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The Wolf King - Alice Borchardt


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The Wolf King - Alice Borchardt

 
Description: ISBN 0006483879 / Author: Alice Borchardt / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Newest Review: ... into the story, intent upon selling her and Maeniel out as and where he can. From these premises a book develops that is ... more

 ... sadly tangled and flawed, written decently, but lacking in focus, full of vivid events, but somehow limping, without real pace or energy. I previously reviewed Borchardt's preceding novel (in what should never have been allowed to become a trilogy) The Silver Wolf, and praised it fulsomely. Here, regrettably, the very real strengths that Borchardt displayed in the earlier tale seem to have gone astray. She has a masterful grip on the history and physical reality of ninth century Italy, but now it emerges in chunky pa...more

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Premium Review The Wolf King - Alice Borchardt: Lacking the BITE of the First! (769 words)
by - written on 20/08/03 (Very useful, 25 readings)
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Half-buried in a snowbank high in the Alps, an escaped Saxon slave stumbles across an unconscious woman. Gathering her up he blunders to a nearby monastery which turns out to be a brigand's den dominated by an unclean, possibly demonic spirit, which has driven most of the inhabitants mad in an orgy of torture and botched revivification. Luckily for the Saxon the woman turns out to be a werewolf, Regeane, the wife of Maeniel, the Wolf King and once she has recovered somewhat they handily fight their way out of the mad-house. And here, perhaps, the story could have been allowed to decently end, were it not for the fact that Regeane's distant cousin, ...  Read the complete review

 

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