I would like to say that as an avid reader who has condemned his poor family to a life of poverty by insisting on working in a local used book store, I have been utterly captivated by your work and can not remember the last time I was so driven to finish a series. I am fairly young, perhaps especially to be married with a child on the way, but this especially seems to be something I have in common with your characters, at least the Dark Ages/ Medieval ones. They all appear to be young and driven but one thing vexes me. In Stonehenge, The Warlord series, the Archer’s series and at least the first 200 pages of The Last Kingdom your heroes’ seem to be with women to whom they are not or cannot be married to. Stonehenge and The Warlord Chronicles especially you made the women to be strong characters, committed to their men only as much as they were committed to there cause; religion seems the most apt way to describe it. I don’t know if it means anything at all, but if you had a moment I would love any insight you may have toward this observation. Otherwise, Cheers! have a fantastic Christmas and I wish you and your family the best in 2009.
Lucas Herndon