Safe In His Arms 2: Love Adrift (M/f Regency Historical Erotic Romance)

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Love the rascals that are struck dumb when they realize they are totally besotted. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Set up a giveaway. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? For information about my rating system, see my profile page. It's nice to read a really well written book. One where you get lost in the world of the main character. Thanks for recommending it to me. I hope someday I can return the favor. View all 74 comments.

The Silver Devil is an historical romance with a twist. A Tale of Horror. Teresa Denys stays completely true to her hellish vision of the time period, her beyond-repulsive characters, her version of "love". Teresa Denys has an uncompromisingly bleak world view.

Here and there were gleams of light from the last embers of the torches, and the blackness was peopled by innumerable small sounds. Sighs of lassitude, stertorous breathing, the rustle of garments and the kiss of flesh, quietening into a silence of exhaustion; the court's lust had spent itself in one hectic surge, and soon would come the bitter aftermath. I sat staring into space, seeing in the darkness pictures of the gluttony and debauchery to which fear of tomorrow had spurred the Cabrian nobles.

The masque of the Seven Deadly Sins played before our faces, sung and chanted, with servants of each Sin's train engulfing the whole hall in a miasma of vivid colour: BOOK 11 oh my God, what the fuck! View all 35 comments. 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 4. 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! 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. It's one of those "I felt like I was right there " 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.

Besides having the obvious asset to play Domenico and being my image of the glorious bastard before I even picked up the book , baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has the type of voice that would make you gladly shed your virtue, inhibitions, and moral compass. Bit of Hollywood casting, operatic version, but she'd do justice to the part. And she can sing on her back , so that's a plus.

I loved this guy. He is Domenico's former lover woot!

How hot and twisted is that? So the role goes to my new opera peep, spinto tenor Jonas Kaufmann. As well as being hella pretteh, he can sing, too Holy Heldentenor, Batman! It's been a long time since Wagner's twin sister-lovin' hero both looked and sounded so hot. Ippolito , Domenico's secretary and Felicia's faithful adherent, is definitely for a sweet-voiced tenor.

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Maddalena , Domenico's discarded mistress who he tosses to Alessandro like a bone to an slavering dog, is a no-brainer. Someone with a raging inner bitch is required, and this soprano can just tap into the dwama that is her marriage and diva-among-divas career behavior. And since every opera needs a bass, that's going to be the Archbishop , who is the only thing standing between Domenico's dukedom and retribution by the Pope, and is an inveterate schemer. Ferruccio Furlanetto could probably sink his teeth into the role and steal the show , like he usually does with anything he touches: If you got this far, thanks for humoring me.

Opera fans need to geek out occasionally, too. Sorry there was no Gerard Butler. Sometimes he simply can't be shoehorned into a part. Y'all should be ashamed. View all comments. Jan 08, Naksed rated it it was amazing Shelves: He sat on his horse unmoving, a somber black figure in startling contrast to the vivid colors about him, the sun dazzling on his white gold hair.

Unlike the duke and his bastard, there was no laughter in his face, and his eyes were not searching the housefronts for diversion-instead, he was staring intently straight up at my window. Not bad enough that she is a reviled bastard toiling away, Cinderella-like, at the inn of her portly brother and his shrewish wife in the 15t He sat on his horse unmoving, a somber black figure in startling contrast to the vivid colors about him, the sun dazzling on his white gold hair.

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Not bad enough that she is a reviled bastard toiling away, Cinderella-like, at the inn of her portly brother and his shrewish wife in the 15th century, but now she has unbeknownst to her caught the eye of Domenico della Raffaelle, heir to the Dukedom of Cabria, in the fictitious southern city of Fidena, Italy. And if she thinks this is going to mean hearts and flowers, she is in for a rude awakening. For Domenico does not court, certainly not an unprotected tavern wench. He takes what he wants. A voice, soft and almost teasing, stopped me in my tracks.

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But he turned my face up to him as casually as he might have turned a rose to smell it, and unwarily I looked straight up into his eyes. They were black; so dark that they were unfathomable, and impossibly, horrifyingly dark in that fair face. Then, as I watched, a strange light began to grow in them-the darkness was swallowed up in a brilliance that made them blaze silver.

I caught my breath, and the room, the house, the whole city, was suddenly breathless with waiting. Next thing you know, her brother sells her for thirty pieces of silver and she is swept to the Duke's castle, a corrupt, rotten, debauched hellmouth where she is caught in the intrigues of political and bed rivals alike. Felicia's first person narrative is so emotionally poignant, realistic and strong that you cannot help, as the reader, to feel as she feels, sees as she sees, tremble as she trembles. The character of Domenico, seen through her eyes, is a magnificent and charismatic but always aloof and distant, cold and cruel figure.

Nevertheless, Felicia, for all her vulnerability, has pride, common sense, loyalty and bravery. These inner qualities, more than her pretty looks, are what ensnares Domenico in turn, and has his entire court gaping at the unprecedented obsession that his newest mistress has engendered in him. The struggle of their personalities is mighty even though the scales are so imbalanced, with Felicia fighting him at every turn.

But in my opinion, despite the odds, she is the one to come out on top. I knew that love would not turn the silver devil into an angel. He would remain what he was--subtle yet childish, unfeeling yet passionate, lost irretrievably to everything but his own desire. But he loved me--and I loved him, now and forever.

The silver devil is also a swashbuckler of a novel, with some nice Gothic touches, very vivid descriptions of battles, some awful torture and assassination scenes, and a couple of heart-stopping duels. A perfect pace, with enough plot twists and turns to ensure that it never becomes boring, repetitive or predictable. I loved The Silver Devil from the first to the last word. Heartbreaking that this book is one of only two known to have been penned by this talented author, whose life was tragically cut short, and about whom we know so little.

View all 45 comments. Jun 13, Willow rated it it was amazing Shelves: This review has mild spoilers in it.

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A few weeks ago, I saw a post where they were discussing the difference between old bodice rippers and modern romance novels. This provides lots of sexual tension and conflict for the heroine, plus it adds many hilarious WTF moments, like, huh This review has mild spoilers in it. I can read the old ones though.

Well, yes… and no. Clearly Domenico is a villain. And he has a handsome boy tortured and killed because Felicia smiles at the him. Domenico never really regrets his cruelty either. So is this romance? Well…the love scenes are intense and passionate. I actually read Silver Devil before when I was teenager and I had forgotten most of it. But I do remember at the time, I was appalled at what a horrible person Domenico was.

Felicia struck me as weak and wimpy for falling for him, throwing away her moral integrity simply because she loves him. I look at Silver Devil totally different now. Teresa Denys is masterful at pulling you into the seventeenth century. She lived in Italy and paints Cabria with visceral color and depth. I feel like she truly captures the personalities and thoughts of time period too.

Domenico fits perfectly the self-absorbed and jaded Duke who disposes of human life without a single thought. History is dotted with people like him. Felicia comes from the bottom level of society, so of course she is meek and weak. For her, it must be intoxicating to go from being completely powerless to someone people bow to.

These characters make sense to me. They are complicated and full blooded. In conclusion, I think Silver Devil is a tale about a villain; an evil tyrant that everyone is trying to overthrow. The good guys are trying to kill him, but they fail miserably.

The people of Cabria would be much better off with a different ruler, but the Silver Devil has uncanny luck. And this story is told through the eyes of his mistress who grows to love him. In the end, the bad guys win. Funny though, Teresa Denys writes so well, you end up rooting for the bad guys. View all 20 comments. After reading that this book has been put on shelves varying from recommends to: Girly girls to "tall, dark and psycho".

I'm crazy curious as to what my beloved ringleader Searock is getting me into. No matter, with her leading the charge, it'll be fun. That's right ladies and gents, cats and kittens! All the way back to a book written in about a story in Bringing you today's hits and yesterday's favorites! Espe Pre-read impression- Ok.

I don't know technically if it's considered gang rape if four guys hold you down while another does the raping, but they're all complicit, so I'm calling it gang rape. So, stay right where you are, don't touch that dial! And I'd do it again. If Searock asked me to group read the Bible cover to cover, I'd probably do it, but I'd beg for the children's version.

Searock- please don't call my bluff on this one. So historical is not my thing and this book made me realize why. Christ on a crutch. Like I give a flying ape shit if they came from the west or the north. That he hit him with his spear and he parried with his knife, that the horse was running, galloping or cantering, that blah, blah ,blah, blah, blah-boring. The intrigue is another. Siblings betraying one another. Your Uncle the archbishop is not to be trusted, he has his own agenda. Who doesn't in this book?

Your father's third wife poisoned her own husband because she thought it would make you happy and land you in her bed. But instead, you send her away without tupping her. Tsk tsk, a woman scorned. That will come back to bite you in the balls, Duke. Felicia, is our heroine?? You know, the one that makes her work as a bar wench at his inn, scrub the floors, clean his house top to bottom, for room and board.

How's this for intrigue? At one point, I thought Felicia was The Duke's half sister! Felicia thought it too. And this was after the schtupping had begun! She wanted back in the Duke's bed. I mean, who wouldn't? The man must have a prized cock, that's all I can figure. She got sent to care for lepers for that tall tale. And that was getting off easy. Felicia smiled at a footboy and it got him tortured and killed. I was rooting for Felicia to run away with the footboy.

Make your way to the New World together. Ask for the Indians. They'll be nice to you, just be nice to them back. Eat Maize and live in peace. One of you will die on the journey, but what the hell! Felicia drinks those cordials from her brother and wakes up in a strange place and soon finds out that she is to be the Duke's whore. A girl can't ask for more than that! I mean the first question out of my mouth would be, "I beg of you sir, have you any pudding?

Is there a Wizard and an Emerald City nearby? I could sure use a field of poppies right now. I'm not even scared of flying monkeys.

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She'll fit right in amongst royalty. But in this instance, in a different time, when a woman's only other choice is to become a beggar or a whore, I'd call it "forced consent". Because better to be the whore to one, than whore to many. Then, I say bring it on! I'll be your whore! A moment after she realizes this, he shows her pictures of women and asks her to help his pick his new bride. Sometimes the ugly ones are good in bed! Pick the manliest one. Oh no, wait, the Duke had an affair with a man for a dozen years.

Pick the the one that looks like a shrew. Well, you were kind of a mousy shrew at first. Now look at you! Close your eyes and point or do eeny-meeny-miney-moe. Wait, do you have that yet in ? Close your eyes and point. When they are in the tavern and the inn-keeper's wife is being raped, Felicia begs the Duke to make it stop, but he refuses. And holds her tight so that she can't interfere. Ah, but she still can't help but love him. You see, he has nightmares that only she can soothe away. Oh, his tortured soul. If only he'd let her care for him.

From the beginning, other men at court say that when the Duke tires of her, which should say, be in a day or two, they will ask that she be given to them. Because that's what he does with his castoffs, he gives them to other men. What's not to love about this guy?

I mean, I could see why any girl would fall for a guy that slept with her in a pool of her own blood, the night he took her virginity, then made her ride with him the next day on the hunt, side saddle. Who comes up with this stuff? You're just a woman. So what if you break your neck?

Just don't hurt the horse, wench. That Duke, he's a keeper. Took all manner of abuse that her half brother and his wife could dig out. But once she came to court, she instantaneously knew how to behave, how to dance, when to kneel and curtesy. And she was never a wallflower in dealing with these other men pursuing her.

Maybe it was borne out of necessity, but it was quite a transformation. Maybe it 'cause she was getting a little sumpin' sumpin', works wonders on the self esteem to be the whore of a Duke. To entertain myself, I took on the language of the book while reading it. As in, "Dearest husband of mine, would you be so kind as to gather the soiled livery so that I may tend to it? But livery is such a weird name for clothing. I always think that livery must smell like onions.

Does anyone else think that? But hey, it had a happy ending. I can't wait sink my teeth into some KA. All I know is Breathe better contain the words: Or I am going lose my mind! It may be lost already to the Silver Devil. One can't help but to love him.