Hi Bernard,

how are you? My name is Érick, I am currently 24 years old and I live in Santa Catarina, Brazil. I would like to say that you are my favorite author and I still hope to get your autograph someday and maybe have a chat about your works. Furthermore, I would like to share an experience I had in 2015 that marked me deeply and I remember it clearly to this day.

Since I was very young, I have always been passionate about history, especially modern and medieval wars, and in 2015 I saw that the series The Last Kingdom was going to be released, and I learned that it was based on your books. With that, I decided to learn more about you and your works and I ended up discovering that you published the Arthur trilogy. After hearing many praises about this work, I decided to buy the three books, and during my school holidays in 2015, I went to the beach house where we had no internet and not many things to do. Because of that, I took the opportunity to start reading the Arthur trilogy.

As the days went by, I found myself falling in love with the whole story and its characters to the point of waking up early in the morning and reading until bedtime, completely in love with the universe you described. After a few weeks, I finished the entire trilogy. I remember very well that as I got closer to the end, more and more beloved characters died, and I cried with tears filling my eyes. After weeks of following that group of characters that I loved so much, I couldn’t help but cry at their losses and suffering. After finishing the saga, I was completely devastated and felt like I had lost a family member because of how attached I was to everything created by the saga. For two weeks, when I took a shower, I cried to the point of sobbing and felt a tightness in my heart because of everything that happened to the characters and the sad fates they had at the end of their lives.

From 2015 until today, out of all the media we have to consume stories, like movies, series, and books, no story has impacted and marked me as much as that of Arthur and his warriors. I will always cherish these characters and their stories, and I thank you for being able to teleport me to an incredible time simply. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Bernard.

From your most sincere fan,

Érick.