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Title: The Revolt of the Eaglets
Author: Jean Plaidy
Narrator: Jilly Bond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-03-10
Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
News of Thomas à Beckets martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom, and the blame is laid at the feet of Henry Plantagenet, King of England. Two years later, with Becket canonised, Henrys position is precarious: punished at the Popes insistence for his part in Beckets death, he now also has an enemy in his Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, after her discovery of his longstanding infidelity with Rosamund Clifford. Eleanor is determined to seek vengeance, so, with King Philip of France, she encourages her sons to conspire, both against their father and each other.
Much embattled, the old eagle Henry struggles to fend off both rebellion and the plots of his aggressively circling offspring.
Members Reviews:
Not One to put down
What can you say about Henry II and his brood? If he expected his sons to be any less ambitious than he was then he was sadly mistaken.
This book picks up where The Plantagenet Prelude left off. Most of Henry and Eleanor's children have grown up and married. Eleanor is prisoner through most of this book and Henry is left to defend his kingdom alone without her help and support. She knows things about his children that he refuses to see, or just plain doesn't care to see.
Henry makes the disastrous mistake of crowning his son Henry king while he is still alive, but doesn't give Young Henry any power when the time comes. This causes Henry to resent his father and for him to come up with numerous plans to unseat him, or at least for him to give him what he believes is truly his. He also does the same for Richard, in giving him Aquitaine, the land his mother originally wanted him to have anyway, and Geoffery, in marrying him into Brittany. John is too young at this time, but he begins to groom him to take over the throne if anything should happen to Young Henry. Henry II also tries to make John into the son he believes he never had.
The book is pretty action packed. Full of battles between father and sons, father and one son against the others, Henry again the King of France, Phillip II, who is very smart, very wily and befriends Richard.
It's also a very sad book because you feel that Henry, in his advancing age, is just looking for the love he never had, looking to give what love he can. No one seems to be able to understand exactly what's going on in his mind.
The book ends with his death. He dies a very heart broken man. Two sons are dead. One fighting against him and the one, the very one he loves most of all, is a coward, a traitor, a deserter.
Richard is now Richard I. He is earning the legend we know him by now. He is king and we are ready for the next book.
And Again
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Five Stars
Jean PLAIDY a great author. Playing catch up by reading this series of her historical novels. Enjoyed and enjoying.
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Revolt of the Eaglets
Loved the book. Fascinated by the time period and Jean Plaidy is the best. The whole series is amazing.
