Install Windows Xp On Dosbox Wiki. Book: The Silver Devil (1984), Author: Teresa Denys, read online free in EPUB,TXT at ReadOnlineFree4.net.
I was already predisposed to like this since Denys' blew me away. She'd had to have really screwed up to make me dislike it. In the end, this book was just as good. The first person POV of the heroine didn't bug me at all (sometimes it does), and I thought it perfectly complemented the story of an illiterate tavern maid plucked out of her lowly life and station and placed among the glittering and utterly foreign court of the local Duke. She's adrift, uncertain, an I was already predisposed to like this since Denys' blew me away. She'd had to have really screwed up to make me dislike it.
In the end, this book was just as good. The first person POV of the heroine didn't bug me at all (sometimes it does), and I thought it perfectly complemented the story of an illiterate tavern maid plucked out of her lowly life and station and placed among the glittering and utterly foreign court of the local Duke. She's adrift, uncertain, and scared, and the use of the first person conveyed her journey from innocent girl to entrapped (and enchanted) mistress perfectly. I also thought that it made Domenico just as attractively and terrifyingly mysterious to the reader (well, this one anyway!) as Felicia herself found him to be. Denys wrote so many beautiful passages capturing Felicia's tormented thoughts and emotions in Domenico's web that it's impossible to quote them all, but suffice to say that the tone was very dark and gothic and evocative of the times without being detailed on the historical end of things. Even though I wasn't told every little thing about 16th century Italy and court etiquette and manners, the settings, characters, and atmosphere of paranoia, decadence, and bloody state rivalries were all very clear. Download Sim201 Ssl84b there.
It's one of those 'I felt like I was ' stories. Also, while I'm not a fan of the hero grovel, I did enjoy this one immensely. Talk about grand gestures. It was just as broad and absolute as the story that came before it was dark and crazy, and the 'staginess' of it (if you will) fit in with the melodramatic sweep of the plot and florid characters.
Right from the get-go, it seemed like ripe material for an opera and I spent the entire book thinking of it in those terms. Made for a very pleasurable experience and inspired my dream cast. I'm dinging it a half star for the last quarter of the book where the plot started to slog a bit and I was impatient for Domenico and Felicia to finally come to an open dialogue (for lack of a better term). Their pride really kept the grease from getting in the gears to keep things rolling.
Denys is a very studied writer, one of the very very few where I can see the painstaking care of her craft and not get annoyed at the artificiality of it. The sheer beauty of some of the passages, the way she can paint a scene, convey a glance or caress or whisper have few equals in my reading experience.
She can couch the horrific and terrifying in such a way that it seems like a song (because in real life Domenico and Felipe Tristan in 'The Flesh and the Devil' would have any sane woman running for the exits or grabbing a gun). She's a master of creating a beautiful blend of people and place and plots to make an intriguing, surreal 'romance.' (The spoiler tag isn't for a spoiler, but contains my dream cast so the page doesn't go a mile long.) ['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']>['br']. This review has mild spoilers in it.:) A few weeks ago, I saw a post where they were discussing the difference between old bodice rippers and modern romance novels. At the time, I couldn’t quite put my thoughts into words. I’ve been thinking about it though, and I’m convinced the main difference is a plot strategy where the hero and the villain are pretty much the same character. This provides lots of sexual tension and conflict for the heroine, plus it adds many hilarious WTF moments, like, This review has mild spoilers in it.:) A few weeks ago, I saw a post where they were discussing the difference between old bodice rippers and modern romance novels.
At the time, I couldn’t quite put my thoughts into words. I’ve been thinking about it though, and I’m convinced the main difference is a plot strategy where the hero and the villain are pretty much the same character.