Actually, I should thank you for the great book. I just bumped the thread because I finally finished it. That may be a shocker, since I was one of the reviewers early on, but last summer I started working nights and days and that went on for about 5 months. Any free time was sleepy time. Fortunately, that is all over now, and I am back to the normal hours.
As you know, I ordered the finished book last September or so. Over the holidays I picked it up and started from the beginning (having read to around chapter 25 previously.)
The characters and the unfolding of events had lived in my head for those months, and there was almost a comfort that came from knowing that I didn't know the whole story. The characters lived in limbo in my head for those months. As I reread the book, and started seeing the pages dwindle, I found myself dreading that it would be over soon.
I am not the sort that gets very emotional, generally speaking, but I gotta say, this book had me completely enthralled. I didn't want it to end. I still don't.
The story is, unfortunately, all too believable. The direction that the country is heading makes it likely that this work of fiction will not stay fiction forever. We have 200+ years of history and heroes to look back on. You have created characters that live up to their ideals based on that history, and I am very grateful for having had the opportunity for them to live in my head for all this time.
The books are starting to appear at gun shows, which for me is an exciting development. I even plan to be at the SHOT Show in Vegs in February. And John Ross, author of UC, just bought a pair of them after finding and reading the website chapters. So things are looking up! But the best of all is reading your words posted above.
Thanks!
