The Temptation of Angélique / La tentation d'Angélique [In Japanese Language]

Angélique (Version Originale) #8

by Anne Golon, Serge Golon, Kazuo Inoue (Translator)

Faithful Wife of Slave of Passion?
Separated from her husband and all alone i the savage wilderness, Angelique learned to be strong enough to brave all the perils of frontier life. Then an intruder entered the forest; the dashing, roguish pirate who had set her heart aflame once before. Angelique soon found her new strength give way to the familiar weakness of passion. It seemed impossible to remain faithful to her distant husband in the face of such glorious temptation.

Have you met Angelique?
She's one of the most irresistible heroines in the history of fiction. Her stormy adventures have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a King. Angelique has loved, intrigued, hated and fought her way into the hearts of millions of readers all over the world. Once you've met Angelique, you won't want to miss any of the sensational Angelique novels:

#1 ANGELIQUE
#2 ANGELIQUE AND THE KING
#3 ANGELIQUE IN BARBARY
#4 ANGELIQUE IN REVOLT
#5 ANGELIQUE IN LOVE
#6 THE COUNTESS ANGELIQUE
#7 THE TEMPTATION OF ANGELIQUE

Genres: Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical Romance, Adventure, France, Fiction

Paperback Bunko

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Born in Toulon as Simone Changeux in 1921; she published under the pseudonym of Sergeanne Golon or Anne & Serge Golon, and later as Anne Golon.

Reviews

[Rosemary Atwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Golon tries hard to sustain the momentum of the earlier novels but little of the original pace and vivacity of the original Angelique now remains. Ever faithful to her reunited husband, a staunch community member with a gift for healing and surrounded by ever-watchful Huguenot and Puritan neighbours - is it any wonder that the very title breathes significant Biblical overtones which (alas) are never realised.

Still, three stars for the author’s tenacity in immersing the reader in frontier Acadia and New France, with a now-familiar bevy of likeable stalwarts of various nationalities and persuasions. It’s no longer a great series, but an intriguing one, nevertheless.

[Luci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some 40 odd years ago, I slowly collected the whole available series of Angelique, one by one, with the little money I saved right out of high school, working at a hamburger stand for $1.45 an hour and after paying rent and college fees. It made me feel so grown up!! Took me about a year, too!

The series was one of my most prized collections. Translated from French! This to me was literature! (I hadn't discovered real literature yet, Lord of the Flies was about it.) So exciting; all those crazy adventures from the French countryside to Versailles, to being held captive by pirates, being sold to a sultan, life in the New World... on and on! Pure escapism and it didn't end, until it did. ~sigh~

Alas, my original collection is GONE!! The paperbacks with the white background with Angelique in court dress looking hot as hell, those editions. I'm in process of reacquiring the whole series which will be a hodge podge of covers since those specific editions are upwards of some $100 each. Crazy!! Yet, I owned them and read them and am very grateful I had them in the beginning of my independent life. Yea!

... Just tore through my bookshelves, I know I have one other Angelique book somewhere. This The Temptation of Angelique is the only one I found. Grrrr... I hate hate hate starting (actually restarting) a series from the middle. Whatever. It's still Angelique. And it's GREAT if you're a fan of high adventure and romance. And modern French literature! lol

PS: Read these in order if you can because the endings will leave you hanging.

PPS: The author's name. Here we go again! I always assumed it was Sergeanne Golon. The American publishers credit as such HOWEVER, it's actually Anne Golon who did the writing; Serge, her husband did the historical research. And the original French publishers refused to credit Anne just like they did with Colette. Go figure. So, all books in the series are listed here on Goodreads under her name, a good thing.

[Toni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spoiler alert: Colin Paturel!!! Colin Paturel!! Ahhhhh! I loved the relationship between Angelique and Colin. I wanted her to be with him. In this book I cannot reconcile my feelings because I want her to be with Colin. Of course I want her to be with Joffrey too. For some reason, of all of Angelique's relationships, I loved her and Colin first and foremost (Desgrez second). I loved this book and it really sets up for a possible doozy in the next installment - angelique and the demon. The only thing I don't like is that Colin Paturel is staying in Gouldsboro. In order to keep the relationship between Colin and Angelique something exquisite and special, they'd have to move on. To have them together in the same space but not together means that it lessens their relationship. She cannot continue feelings with Colin or her relationship with Joffrey is over. If Colin somehow falls in love in the next book I'll be very disappointed. All this aside. I loved this book. LOVED. Angelique is such a fantastic character. I would LOVE to start a group on the Angelique series. It would be fantastic to talk with other lovers of the series!)

[Lisachan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Proseguo nella mia lettura senza soluzione di continuità di tutti i volumi della saga di Angelica, la Marchesa degli Angeli \o\ In questo volume, il più corposo al momento (anche se, nell'istante in cui scrivo, ho già cominciato il successivo, che è ancora più lungo), la Golon fa due cose di sostanziale importanza: la prima è rimettere in discussione Angelica e Joffrey, i quali, pur bellissimi anche nell'inarrivabile perfezione della loro comunione di intenti, danno il meglio di loro e del loro rapporto di coppia quando sono in conflitto, e infatti si soffre abbestia ma è una sofferenza bella, gratificante; la seconda è porre le basi per una trama orizzontale che a questo punto, suppongo, ci porterà verso la fine della storia. Si può tranquillamente dire che il primo ciclo delle avventure di Angelica, apertosi con la morte di suo marito, si sia chiuso con il suo ritrovamento. Comincia invece da questo volume un secondo ciclo, Angelica e Joffrey contro "the powers that be" (in questo caso, sospetto, i gesuiti comandati da Padre d'Orgeval, anche se non ho ancora certezza di ciò, la trama è fitta e piena di misteri) che li vogliono separati e, pertanto, indeboliti.
Il prossimo volume dovrebbe chiarire un po' di dubbi.

[Jeff Cliff · Rating 2 out of 5]

While the scene was fascinating, I just could not get into this one. Seems like so much of this book was review of the other books, that it could have been a 150 or 200 page turner rather than a dragging 500 page recounting over and over, but it wasn't. I know we have to judge the men by their period and Joffrey was probably a dream, then, but still, he was a very flawed man in this book...which is not a huge deal but I really was rooting for him this whole series so far and I ...would find it difficult to respect him after this book.

[Arpine Kharazyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Когда женщина молода, она отдает все жизненные силы, чтобы доказать свою самостоятельность. Это изнурительно. И она в одиночестве выносит это. Распрлщавшись с детством, кто становится более одиноким, чем молодая женщина? В сорок, пятьдесят лет можно начинать жизнь! Самостоятельность уже проявлена!...

[Mihaela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brala sem jo sicer leto dni (z vmesnimi prestanki) - prva polovica se mi je kar vlekla, je pa druga polovica zato toliko bolj presenetila.

[Isabelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un livre différent des prémiers, qui prend tout de même le chemin du précédent. La fin invite à la suite, peut-être différente. Il suffira de lire la suite pour le savoir.

[Eneida · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the whole series, in Portuguese. They were 14 volumes, and it was a thrilling historical fiction.

[Charlene Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read all these over 40 years ago and loved them.

[Deborah Pickstone · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars
A bit too angsty.