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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)

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

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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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The StorylineRegeane is a half-Saxon and half-Frankish woman without a father; her mother, Gisela is the cause of his death. After Gisela discovers that Woflstan, Regeanes father, is a shape shifter and is able to take the form of a wolf she is convinced by her brother Gundabald that he must be the devils child and must be killed. Gisela is thankful that her daughter doesnt appear to have any of the traits of her father; however, when she gets older she gains the ability to change into a wolf as

I chanced upon this book years ago at the library when I was looking for a different author. This is the first Alice Borchardt book I ever read, and it was a very good read. It's so rare to find books set in Dark Age Europe, since it was so... well, for lack of a better word, dark. Rome has fallen, and the glory of the Middle Ages is a long way off, but the people living in the remnants of Rome certainly made do.The book starts off really well - always a good sign for a book - and left me

Books one and three are good but I didn't like the second book. (which is a prequel, so you can easily skip it.)

She is Regeane, a werewolf, and a royal bastard, and her guardian, Gundabald and his son plan to profit by marrying Regeane off to a rich man and reap the money paid. Gundabald forces her into acquiescence by threatening to tell the Church what she is and in 8th century Rome, they would burn her at the stake. Her new husband travels to Rome, and meanwhile she uncovers she has allies in her quest to escape, but unfortunately for Regeane, she finds she has more than Gundabald to fear. She makes

The one about the girl/wolf shapeshifter, set early in Charlemagne's reign.I gave this one fifty pages for form's sake, but it began to lose me in the very first paragraph, where the setting sun is described both as "the fiery circle" and as "the incandescent ball." This is typical of the writing throughout: purple, pompous, full of epithets and 'poetic' sentence fragments, pretty much the fanfiction.net house style.This sort of exaggerated Cinderella story is a kink, but it's not my kink. I

Regeane is a beautiful young woman with werewolf blood. Because of this, her nasty uncle has kept her captive and beaten and starved her. When she discovers that he plans to sell her to a wealthy barbarian she risks her life and escapes. The remainder of the book concentrates on Regeane's self-discovery and the other, often odd, sometimes depraved people she encounters. She's known she can shape-shift but she also learns that she has visions and can speak to the dead. Eventually she becomes

A werewolf story! I like the way Ms. Borchardt writes. The world she creates is rather complex and sometimes a bit too detailed. Still, this historical story reinterpreted with werewolves was interesting to me. Specifically since there aren't that many books out with decent mythology regarding werewolves. I sucked down this story in a night. I can't wait to read the follow up book.