Lionheart, Sharon Kay Penman
Lionheart, Sharon Kay Penman
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Lionheart

Author: Sharon Kay Penman

Narrator: Emily Gray

Unabridged: 27 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/09/2011


Synopsis

A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henry II, and the early demise of two of his brothers, Richard is crowned King of England and immediately sets off for the Holy Land. This is the Third Crusade, marked by internecine warfare among the Christians and extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. Richard’s surviving brother, the younger John, is left behind—and conspires with the French king to steal his brother’s throne. Only their mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, now freed from decades of captivity, remains to protect Richard’s interests and secure his destiny.

In this engrossing saga, Sharon Kay Penman delivers a novel of passion, intrigue, battle, and deceit. Lionheart is a sweeping tale of a heroic figure—feared by his enemies and beloved by those he commanded—who became a legend in his own lifetime.

“The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry.”—Margaret George

About Sharon Kay Penman

Sharon Kay Penman is the author of the Plantagenets series, the Welsh Princes Trilogy, and the Justin de Quincy Mysteries, among other books. Writers who admire her work include Margaret George, Steve Berry, George R. R. Martin, and Bernard Cornwell. Her readers are passionately committed. A lawyer by training, by her mid-thirties she was a full-time novelist. She lives in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on August 04, 2020

Funny how the shortest book so far in this series could feel like the longest. I am unwilling to let these characters go, but try as I might with this book, I found it impossible to warm to Richard. Richard I is remembered in England as one of our greatest monarchs. I'm not sure if he has any reputa......more

Goodreads review by Althea on August 29, 2011

A quote from Carlos Ruiz Zafón: "I think you have to be careful with research in fiction. I believe the best way to use it is to learn a lot yourself about what you're going to write, and then don't really use more than 1% of all the research you've done, at least visibly. ... the effective way to u......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on February 04, 2012

Bad Son, Bad King, Bad Husband, but Medieval Rockstar... Sharon Kay Penman continues her saga of the most dysfunctional family of the twelfth century, the Plantagenets, with this first of two books about Richard, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine’s third son, who later became known by his nickname, L......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on April 01, 2012

I have enjoyed all of Sharon's books, but this one ranks up there with Sunne in Splendor in terms of completely resetting my opinion of a person from history. I started the book being indifferent to Richard. I grudgingly had to admit, chapter by chapter, that he began to grow on me. By the end he re......more

Goodreads review by Dee on July 04, 2021

Audible.com 27 hours 49 mi. Narrated by Emily Gray At 73 my young girl's heart has been captured by the warrior Lionheart. Now on to A King's Ransom by Penman. I've got to listen to rest of King Richard's story. It's really hard to believe that all of this truly happened in the life of one man who li......more