Devil's Brood (Eleanor of Aquitaine Series #3)

Will not buy

Enjoy this author but will not buy this overpriced ebook.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

WE ARE AGREED

I loved the first two books of this trilogy, buut I am not going to pay $19.99 for any nook book. Ten dollars is pushing it as far as I am concerned. B&N, you need to reconsider your relationship with your readers.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Fantastic book....ebook price outrageous!

I already own this book in hardcover and thought it was fantastic! Sharom Kay Penman knows how to write history and tell a story. I saw that the book was available for $2.99 and since I was shopping or nookbooks thought I would add it to my nook collection. I was appalled to discover that the nook price is $19.99. Why is the hardcover $2.99 and the nookbook $19.99?!?!?!?!?!? I WILL NEVER PAY more than $10 for a nookbook. I am outraged and disgusted at these $20 nookbooks.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Excellent

Penman has become my favorite author of historical fiction. This series should be required reading. Penman brings the history to life and not only showed two individuals as monarchs, but a husband and wife at odds and as parents raising 4 difficult sons - all of these folks wanting power. I've read all three in this series and have a much better understanding of the struggle between Henry II and Becket, Henry and the Church, his struggles with his family and the aftermath it caused in the third book. The only problem with the third book is that it ended and we have to wait for the 4th! I've always had a great interest in this time period of history and Penman has developed my interest even more. I just bought the first book in the series on the Welsh history - Here be Dragons. Penman is a wonderful author - please - get that 4th book in this series written!

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

A well written vivid medieval tale

In 1172 King Henry Fitz Empress names his oldest surviving son Hal as his coregent. However with the title comes nothing else as the second Henry since the Conqueror refuses to give his offspring any meaningful authority. ------------- Hal is irate as he feels his sire has insulted him with a name that is a title only and has no power behind it.. The monarch¿s wife Eleanor of Aquitaine rallies their male offspring to back their oldest brother in a bid for power. Over several years, however, Richard, Geoffrey and John not only join Hal in an open revolt against their sire, they war with one another over land, which each knows denotes power in late twelfth century England. Eleanor cannot believe how convoluted her encouraging her children to rebel against their martinet father has spun, but remains steadfast in support of Hal.----------- The third Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine historical thriller (see WHEN CHRIST AND HIS SAINTS SLEPT and TIME AND CHANCE) is an excellent extremely complex medieval saga. The story line digs deep into two obstinate but powerful monarchs who battle in bed and on the throne for the top position. Their adult children also come somewhat into focus especially the frustrated males, which in turn amplifies the intricacy of the story line. Fans of a well written vivid medieval tale will want to read Sharon Kay Penman¿s powerful twelfth century chronicle.------------ Harriet Klausner

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Riviting

This is this is the third in the Eleanor of Aquitaine series and it is just as fascinating as the two previous books. I find Penman's writing excellent and her characters vivid and believable.

3dognite

When one misses the characters in a book when it is over, I think the author has done the job of making their characters truly believable. Weaving history and fiction together makes reading twice as enjoyable! Penman is one of the best. Love all her books!

Great Read!!

This is the third book by Sharon Kay Penman following the fascinating life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Penman did a great job of bring the medieval world of the 1100's to life. Great read that I would recommend to anyone!

wonderful history

Sharon Penman writes the best novels about British History I have ever read. I can't wait for the next one.

Interesting reading

An interesting historical-fiction manuscript; however, the choice of lead characters is out of the ordinary, causing this reader's interest to be lost on several occasions. One must trudge on to find the next interesting section and sometimes that is a battle.

Seems as if Geoffrey deserves a short to mid-length book of his own, maybe we will eventfully get one. In fact, there are several interesting and deserving characters left begging for fictional development. How would this Henry have stayed as monarch for so long?

This tome needed a first-class editing job and did not get it. The book is much too wide-ranging and not the best in her wonderful set of historical works, too bad. She had two or three books of material, and it is too bad for her readers that she did not shorten the format.

Even with its problems, the book is still wonderful. This is an excellent winter time read, but not a novel for the beach, it would leave the reader 'flat-chested'

Sharon Kay Penman Does It Again...

Ms. Penman has once again kept me up well past midnight reading her exquisite prose. "Devil's Brood" is the third in a series about Henry II and Eleanor of Acquitaine, but not the final one, I was pleased to learn.
(If you haven't read the first two books, do so, before tackling this one. Like most people's lives, you really can't know them if you haven't known what happened to them earlier in their lives.) Henry and Eleanor begin this book in their late forties or early fifties, so a lot has gone into their relationship and their circumstances before Devil's Brood begins.

In this book, the author really gets inside the hearts and minds of both of the main characters--you truly do feel their pain, and there's plenty of it. Many nights I wanted to shout to the characters, "Don't do that!" When you talk to characters, which I normally do not, you know the author has done her job.

Devil's Brood is an apt title if ever there was one. Henry's sons were nothing if not ones to hold grudges, start rebellions, and generally make one fervently hope for a barren womb. But they make for great story-telling. It also makes you wonder how any of Henry's kingdom survived, and yet, tired as you are, you can't put the book down, and when you've read the last letter of the last page of author's anything, you cannot wait until the next book comes out.

Henry and Eleanor are two star-crossed lovers with lots of individual charisma and power. Explosive, head-strong, wise while being so foolish in some of their judgments that you want to scream, but they are joined forever, and as Penman says "not even death can change that."

And nothing but death will keep me from reading Penman's next masterpiece.

Worth the wait

As an avid Sharon Kay Penman reader I've looked forward to the ongoing family saga of Elanor and Henry. This family puts even the most intense soap opera to shame, but Penman's storytelling kept me involved and looking forward to the next part of the story.

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