Overnight he changes Felicias nightmare world of tavern drudgery into an erotic adventure as his royal mistress.He is the Duke of Cabria who holds his subjects in constant fear.He is troubled. He is ruthless.
![]() The feverishly sweaty and grotesque atmosphere, the constant viciousness and savagery, the insanely operatic characters. In a good way Okay ive read more about bodice rippers than actually experienced them. That women often fall into two categories: inexplicably independent (for the historical time period depicted) or - in the case of the The Silver Devil - virginal proto-nuns. This novel pitches these two archetypes of Man Woman so beyond that template that the effect is genuinely surreal. A kind of extreme-relationship novel with a hair-raisingly demanding dom and a heroine who is so deranged in her passivity that she comes across as the ultimate subjugate-me-please sub. But in the end it was as i mentioned at the start: A Tale of Horror. I did not read this with a droll sense of irony because this shit is good, man. She moved from being a sad character to a pathetic character to a character who attained a bizarre transcendence in the extremity of her submissiveness. She is Pure Victim. ![]() The Silver Devil Once i began to see this as a story of extreme psychological terror and so rejected it as a romance, it really came together for me in a way i did not expect. Her terrorized first-person perspective on the world around her only strengthened the horror of it all. This is a deeply realized historical novel with a consistently grim tone. This is a world of abominations and it is all brilliantly described as a genuine living hell. And to me, entirely unattractive - and so the horror remained constant. This was not a remotely arousing novel and yet i was enthralled by the excessive perversity on display. It was easy to never sympathize with the twisted, sickening hero (just as it was easy to long for his punishment and demise) because the author portrays him as evil incarnate.
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