![]() ![]() I think I loved the character of Johanna the best – she was very similar to her mother – spunky, willing to go on Crusade, and wanting to be “one of the boys”. You were able to learn about their hopes and fears and see how they dealt with being on Crusade. While this was certainly a story of Richard and we spent a lot of time on Crusade, it was a story of these women as well. ![]() We have the pleasure of meeting Eleanor’s daughter, Johanna, as well as Richard’s wife, Berengaria. What I liked most about this novel was the importance placed on the female characters whom you rarely see in novels about the children of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Aside from that, I think The Passionate Brood is certainly an appropriate title – those Plantagenets were very passionate people and as a group even more so. ![]() ![]() Once he becomes “Robin Hood” we really don’t find anything more about him – it’s more of a story of how casting Robin aside affects Richard’s conscience a little different than how I pictured the story to be. I think for the importance that the title places on the character, there was not enough time spent on him. He has a semi-prominent role in the first quarter of the book and then appears again in the last few pages, although he is never far from Richard’s thoughts. For a novel whose title states it’s a novel of Richard the Lionheart and the man who became Robin Hood, there is fairly little Robin in this novel. ![]()
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