Angelique and the Demon (Book 8)

by Anne Golon and Serge Golon

Book Overview

Angelique and the Demon (Book 8) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055311087X
• ISBN13: 9780553110876
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 591 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Can you put the book down once it's gripped your imagination

I have waited a long time to review this book, because since first reading it I have remembered it's power, even stranglehold on my imagination. Even on re-reading the series several times over, whilst waiting for the next book to appear and the first time I read this one, I have always wanted to return to it again and again. Why? That's a very difficult question to answer. When the series first moved to the New World, I marvelled at the break from the old established traditions, the way the reader is led to admire the infancy of an untouched and unsullied continent. Wherever the Old World goes, it brings misconceptions and prejudices with it, never leaving the mistakes behind. Here, a group of people realise that all that has to be left behind them to survive - but it's the Old World that does not want to let go of them , it wants its traditions to follow and to continue playing havoc with the new! Refreshingly, it is the Peyracs and their people who bow to the new traditions and fit in with them - but of course that makes them even greater outcasts and villains in the eyes of the Old World - isn't it funny how the "new" is always condemned by the old. When I first read this book many years ago, I didn't even know what a cat was - except that the next door neighbours (when I was a child) kept on giving birth to kittens - happily I have become more enlightened in my more mature years and am infatuated with every type of cat that exists and fantasy ones such as those painted and drawn by Louis Wain and others. I cannot abide cruelty to any animal or any unnecessary slaughter - so why bring this up? In the Demon the reader is introduced to a kitten which decides his only hope of survival is with Angelique - she accepts the responsibility for this tiny scrap of life. Anyone owning, knowing or loving cats will appreciate the way the author(s) have captured that special intimacy between a cat and a human being that it trusts. The cat (as yet unnamed) creates a different vision of perceptions between man (or woman) and itself, Cantor's Wolverine is only ever described for what it is - a glutton and wild. The cat in those times (particularly the ignorance shown by the Inquisition) would still have been perceived as a witch's familiar - so, did Angelique make a mistake taking it on? Of course not, the animal sensed the difference between the good human being and the malevolent one, because that is just what Ambroisine de Madribourg was - malevolence itself. So finally the vision of the Demon of Acadia was coming to life - we first heard about it in the Countess Angelique. The character is marvellously portrayed - look around you today - is there someone where you work who constantly gets people at odds with each other? Yes, you recognise the sort, well here Ambroisine weaves her lies and contraditions with such apparent ease that every other character must be a gullible clod. Not so, anyone who ca

Couldn't Put It Down!

The eight volume of this series just keeps you wanting more and more! This volume in particular is both haunting and exhilarating!

One of the best episodes of the best ever series

The first time I read this book, in 1978, I couldn't put it down, and re-reading it today, for the 9th or 10th time, it is still equally gripping.Angelique's fight with the 'demon' is a tense and thrilling tale that leaves you guessing and on the edge of your seat until the last page, and contains an unsettling undercurrent of true evil. Is the 'demon' just a malevolent and manipulative human being out to destroy Angelique, or is she truly possessed?Although the Angelique series continues after this book, and we are left wanting more, the climatic conclusion ties up at least some of the loose ends and misunderstandings from the preceding books, while opening up new possibilities for the future.Truly the outstanding series of books written this century (or any other).

Wonderful, Scary, Absorbing, Magical!

The eighth in the Angelique series (my favorite books of all time!) is truly frightening yet totally absorbing with occult overtones and lots of good vs evil stuff. Wonderful storyline and extremely well developed characters - even minor players are multi-faceted. This is a beautifully written series - I can't recommend it enough!

Demonic Forces Threaten Angelique's Happiness

This book is the sequel to "The Temptation of Angelique" in which her relationship with her husband, Joffrey de Peyrac, having just survived a threat from within, now must face an external menace. The unexpected arrival of a beautiful, ultra-intelligent, Frenchwoman - the Duchess de Maudribourg - appears destined to turn Joffrey's heart away from Angelique. Slowly it becomes apparent that evil forces are at work again trying to destroy the love that binds them. Is the Duchess the prophesied Demon of Acadia? Will she succeed in her quest to wrest the heart of Joffrey? I won't tell, but the reader will be held fascinated as the story unfolds. This appears to be the most occult of all of the books in the series, but author Anne Golon does an outstanding job of tying the events to the earthbound plotting of individuals bent on Angelique's destruction. The shadowy figure of Sebastian d'Orgeval and the figure of Angelique's old rival, the Marquise de Montespan appear to figure prominently. Outstanding reading by any measure!