The Silver Devil

by Teresa Denys

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345289927
• ISBN13: 9780345289926
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Man those prices though!!!

Man I really love this cover and I have wanted it for awhile now. But the price man! That price’s that are showing every time that is available it’s a bit crazy to be honest!

Does anyone write like this anymore?

I have read this book so many times over the past 15 years that I know every single line, every single character on a first name basis, just everything! If you are interested in reading this book, it's truly a modern day work of fiction. Writing a book like that in the late 1970's had to have been shocking to Ms. Denys' readers. If she were to put it back into print today, and with the right kind of publicity, she would be a major author. I know that this is wishful thinking, but hopefully she will write again someday. This book is an EXCELLENT choice. If it was made into a film, it would put the other Rennaissance period movies (the Oscar winning ones included) to SHAME! Enjoy!

Behind the heroine's shoulder in a Jacobean revenge tragedy

A dark chess game which sets the power struggle between lovers squarely in the middle of the power struggle at a Renaissance Italian court. The tension grabs you from start and lingers long after you have put the book down - in my case more than fifteen years. This is a book about violence, betrayal, double dealing - and even the best characters are in it up to their finely starched ruffs - and the love story is utterly compelling because, not in in spite, of the nightmares. Probably too politically incorrect for today but the sexual tension (and the pangs of misprised love ) fairly sizzle. Read and relish!

A Dark Romance

This book is intense. I read it years ago and at least once a year I have to re-read it. An amazing work of fiction. It grabs your attention and creates characters so real you think about them days, weeks, months, later. I wish it was easier to find a copy of this out-of-print title so more could enjoy the mesmirizing romance created by this gifted author. Set in Rennaisance Italy in the 1600's, it is the story of a Duke and his mistress. The dialogue is quick and subtle. The plot is moved along quickly with action and intrigue. It is on my list of the top ten books I have had the privelege to read, and I have read many. I think the book was a bit ahead of its time when first printed in 1978. Now it would not so much shock people as intrigue them.