Dear Bernard, I’ve read many of your books. They’re fun and informative, concerning history. I just finished the Sword Song and am in the beginning of the Burning Land. I realize things can’t always make total sense in fiction. You have to ask your readers to suspend logic, become gullible enough to let some stupid thing take place in a story, just so the story can go on. But when Uhtred has Skade with a rope around her neck, and Harald starts killing his Saxon women and children hostages, Uhtred, instead of likewise putting an axe in Skade’s head, or just having Harald shot full of arrows, meekly says, “cut her loose”, and away she goes! It’s beyond stupid. How is that the slightest bit believable? Bernie, that’s way too hard to swallow. You can’t expect anyone with an once of intelligence not to shake their head and wonder if they should even continue with the yarn. I realize this isn’t expected to be great literature, but please try to make it somewhat believable, in terms of basic sense. On the whole, I enjoy your books, but that gaffe was a clunker! Sincerely, Denny Waite