I am reading the Saxon stories and I am finding my own ambiguity of religion within it’s hero. I have been a Catholic novice a Buddhist novice an a pagan priestess and still I find no solace. I love the hero’s exertion to his battle partners to clutch their blade before he kills them. If only I had such a simple task to find my heaven in Valhalla or Niflhem, just clutch my sword, if I had one. I long to read more from this Uhtred, not the old one safely wed to a Christian woman he thinks is an idiot but the young one out in the world beyond the churchs artificial comfort.

Willow Rose