Lionheart, (Paperback)

from Chatterbox

As the title suggests, this hefty tome is a historical novel that follows Richard the Lionheart (aka Richard I of England) from his accession to the throne to the Crusades is "Outremer" (today's Syria/Jordan/Israel/Palestine/Lebanon). While the novel is the fourth in a series following the Angevi...

from LisaMaria_C

This novel has many qualities that define the best of historical fiction. First, Penman has an evident respect for history and well-researched knowledge of the periods she depicts. Her characters don't sound like reality tv stars nor is her history risible such as that of Philippa Gregory. In thi...

from ddelmoni

I'm a fan of Sharon Kaye Penman's having read Sunne in Splendour and her Justin d'Quincy mysteries. I was delighted to receive Lionheart through LT because Penman writes historical fiction NOT historically embellished romance novels nor novels with the reading time of a TV sitcom. I knew to appre...

from Schmerguls

4851. Lionheart, by Sharon Kay Penman (read 18 Aug 2011) I read this author's first book, The Sunne in Splendour, an account of Richard III, in 1997 and liked it pretty well. But I have not, till now, read any of the author's subsequent books. This book, being published this year, is a fictionali...

from joririchardson

This book opens in 1189, and Richard the Lionheart, son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, has recently taken the throne. Immediately, he sets out on the Third Crusade, with a determination to conquer Jerusalem. This was the first of Sharon Kay Penman's books that I have read, but I...