The Devils Brood 5 stars (LISTOPIA)

[Joanne]

Devil's Brood 5 Stars

This is my favorite so far of The Penman books I have read.

This is the final tale of the marriage Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II.
Filled with family drama, warring Kings. I think I enjoyed this so much because of the dynamics between Henry and his children. Henry's rule of both sides of the Channel made him a force to be reckoned with through out Europ. There was nothing more important to him-not even his children. Seeing less and less of them, as he put down rebellions and clung to his kingdom. As his sons grew, he promised them riches and land and high-born heiress's -but never came through, keeping control of it all, believing his sons could never hold the kingdom together. As the tensions mounted, the sons set out to betray their father, with the help of Louis Capet, King of France. But the hardest betrayal to forgive was that of his Queen Eleanor. Henry forgives his sons, but makes Eleanor his prisoner for the final 17 years of his life.

Penman's writing and research always entertain me, and I have fallen in love(or it could be lust)with Richard The Lionheart.