One of the best novels I have read all year

This book is written for those that love the era of the knight and lance, the bow and arrow. This is a historical novel that should be read by any and everyone. This novel winds you into its web and will not let you go. The only problem with this book is that when you are done reading it, you want more. I read this one from cover to cover and did not stop to even eat.

The basics of this novel:
The story follows the life of a young man named Thomas who's life long love is to be an archer. His mother and father (as well as everyone else in his town of Hookton)are killed by an evil man who is his family over a lance that belonged to a saint. To make matters worse, they are killed on Easter. The book follows him through his life and his quest to find the man that killed his parents and to find the lance and return it to the home that he knew as a child where it belonged. He finds out the horrors of his family along this quest. He tries to deny the quest, but life keeps bringing him back to it. I want to tell you the whole story, but I do not want to ruin the book for you.

Now, I would love to tell you that I know this aurther, Bernard Corwell, but I do not. This is the first of his books that I have read, but if this is the style he uses with all of his books, then I want to read them all. This book takes you seemlessly from scene to scene and does not let you go. This book is written by a masterful aurthor. I can not give credit to this book in this review as it is deserved, but trust me...it is worth reading and then some.