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Title	:	The Silver Wolf (Legends of the Wolf #1)
Author	:	Alice Borchardt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 460 pages
Published	:	by Ballantine Books (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Shapeshifters. Werewolves. Paranormal. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

The Silver Wolf (Legends of the Wolf #1)

Alice Borchardt

Paperback | Pages: 460 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 4162 Users | 227 Reviews

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Regeane is a fatherless royal relation who happens to be a werewolf. Her guardian, Gundabald, and his venal son Hugo plan to recoup their fortunes by marrying Regeane to a wealthy bridegroom, even though she might inadvertently make him into a bedtime snack. Gundabald forces her into apparent compliance by threatening to reveal her secret to the Church, which would burn her at the stake. As the bridegroom, Maeniel, journeys to Rome to claim her, Regeane discovers allies in her quest to defeat Gundabald's machinations, including some very strong, funny, and levelheaded women. Unfortunately for Regeane, she also has more powerful enemies than Gundabald.

Alice Borchardt brings 8th-century Rome vividly to life. Her language is earthy and sensuously descriptive: "The wolf visited Regeane's eyes and ears. The girl staggered slightly with the shock. The light in the square became intense. Smells an overwhelming experience: wet stone, damp air, musty clothing, perspirations shading from ancient sticky filth to fresh acrid adrenal alarm."

Borchardt is Anne Rice's sister, but she writes a very different sort of tale. Ghosts, the dead, and supernatural forces are here, but so is laugh-out-loud humor and a happy ending. --Nona Vero

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Original Title:	The Silver Wolf
ISBN:	0006483852 (ISBN13: 9780006483854)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Legends of the Wolf #1
Setting:	Rome(Italy)

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As 8th-century Rome dies, Regeane struggles to survive: a disenfranchised woman of noble blood--and also a werewolf--she's kept in poverty and forced into marriage. But, with the introduction of a few key players and an unknown wolf, she's beginning to take back control. The Silver Wolf is bombastic, artless, and overdrawn. Its grimdark setting never jives with its idealized protagonist or intrusive off-color humor, yet the book is full of good intentions: an unusual historical setting, realized

This is the first book in the Legends of the Wolves trilogy. Borchardt, the sister of vampire maven Anne Rice, spins an amazingly descriptive tale set in the waning years of the Roman Empire as Charles struggles to become Charlemagne and Hadrian struggles to remain pope. Regeane is a shape shifter, woman and wolf, cursed and blessed, hunter and hunted. Distantly related to Charlemagne she is betrothed to a barbarian chieftain she has never seen to secure a mountain pass needed to keep

This is Part 3 of my Fall Wolf-a-thon, a sprint on four legs through six werewolf novels before the arrival of Halloween.I'm abandoning The Silver Wolf after Chapter I. Published in 2001, this novel -- written by Anne Rice's older sister Alice Borchardt -- seems to be set in the last days of the Roman Empire (details sketchy thus far, typical in mediocre writing). It looks to be a Cinderella story, chock full of antiquity and lycanthropes, with a wolfed out teenage girl named Regeane as the main

As poorly written a book as you're likely to read.

Set in the Rome of the Dark Ages, Regeane is a shape-shifter, a gift inherited from her father. After her mother's death she is raised by her uncle, a cruel man bent on using Regeane, who is distantly related to the great Charlemagne, to better his own station in life. She is betrothed to a barbarian lord she's never met and surrounded by enemies on all sides while she struggles to accept the wolf half of herself.This book was filled with too much political intrigue for my taste. I'm not really

I have read this book several times. I have enjoyed it each and every time. I did not make it through the second one yet. But I will make around to it. I adore this book, loaned it to a friend and never got it back. After that I had to purchase it again cause I missed it!

Do you ever have these authors that make you want to say, "She could be so great if she only applied herself"? Well, that's how I feel about Alice Borchardt, who is apparantly Anne Rice's sister (no resemblance in the writing, however, and may I be the first to say I don't find Rice's epics all that scintillating)?Wishful thinking about the author aside, this book is arguably Borchardt's best to date (though I do find her Guinevere series compelling). Set in the ruins of ancient Rome, our