false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900178m/77449.jpg 77449 8 "A masterful picture of Wales in the 13th century...vivdly pictured as grandly beautiful, its people volatile, stubborn and mystic."<br>THE SAN DIEGO UNION<br>Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Then Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce with England by marrying the English king's beloved, illegitimate daughter, Joanna. Reluctant to wed her father's bitter enemy, Joanna slowly grows to love her charismatic and courageous husband who dreams of uniting Wales. But as John's attentions turn again and again to subduing Wales--and Llewelyn--Joanna must decide to which of these powerful men she owes her loyalty and love.<br>A sweeping novel of power and passion, loyalty and lives, this is the book that began the trilogy that includes FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING. 74826 book 1985 Here be Dragons (Welsh Princes, Book 1) total:1637|5:896|4:524|3:177|2:35|1:5| 1637 7182 2473 271 5 10 false false Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 22:13:23 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 09:01:01 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 15:31:11 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 15:32:09 -0800 2009
The book tells...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 11:28:31 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 16:13:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 3 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 13:09:35 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 13:09:41 -0800 2007 The Lord of the Rings trilogy. At first I wasn't really impressed with it. It wasn't getting to the romance quick enough for me and it was a little confusing to remember all of the characters. It also was a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 06:51:30 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 17:47:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 24 05:39:43 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 15 08:06:14 -0800 2009 Sharon Kay Penman is absolutely amazing. The characters in Here be Dragons live and breath like I would never have thought possible for people that died almost 800 years ago. Almost all of the major characters are factually based, and Penman says...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 18 13:50:57 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 27 12:12:05 -0800 2008 Here be Dragons is a novel based on the events and important figures of Wales, England, Scotland, and France from ~1180 - 1240AD. This telling of the reign of King John of England and the ascendancy of Prince Llewellyn of Wales (and his political marriage to John's illegitimate daughter) winds its w...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 04:46:15 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 15:51:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:56:12 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:57:27 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu May 10 17:30:44 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 05 14:12:55 -0700 2009 To be honest, this book took me about a month to plod through. The difficult names and interweaving of families made the characters a bit difficult to keep straight, and the 700 paged tiny typed aspect didn't help. That being said, this is truly a beautiful book written abo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Wed Jan 21 15:18:36 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 15:32:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Nov 12 11:18:27 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:19:33 -0800 2009 1 Here Be Dragons is the first in Sharon Kay Penman's Wales trilogy, which follows the ruling families of Wales in the thirteenth century, a turbulent era for the small country on the borders of England, as their princes fought to protect Welsh independence from the encroaching English. Llewelyn ap Io...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 19:38:49 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 19:47:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 01 12:10:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:10:25 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 10 12:19:33 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:34:20 -0700 2009
It is multi-layered. On the one hand it's about the power struggle between England and Wales in the 1200s. On the other hand it's about the relationship between Joanna (illegitimate daughter of King John) and Llewelyn (prince of Wales).

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I consider myself to be a fast and comprehensive reader, but even I found myself back-trac...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 13:01:59 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 18:16:26 -0800 2009 Years 1183-1234 Wales, England, France etc. This book lacked a geneaology chart or some other form of a list of who is/was who. Hard to get into this serious historical novel. I found this book through Amazon's suggsestions and did enjo...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 10:51:58 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 11:00:26 -0700 2009
At first, I had a real problem 28 year old men marrying 12/14 year olds, but after I got over it, I became completely engrossed in the book. I love being able to make E...more...]]> 5 0 false true Mon May 11 20:14:55 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 20:14:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 16:08:53 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 15:43:20 -0800 2009 1
I loved it. I lost a lot of much-needed sleep reading "just one more ch...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=77449