The Evening and the Morning

This was my first Ken Follett book and it was just wow! It was superb and I definitely will be reading the rest of his books!

It was beautifully written with some fantastic (and some not so fantastic!) characters.

I loved Edgar, Ragna and Aldred. On the other hand, I despised Degbert, Dreng, Wynstan, Wigelm. Honestly the four of them were absolutely vile. Wilwulf nor Gytha were any better! Ken did an excellent job portraying these characters in such a way, that it elicited such strong emotions in me! (I know that if I'd read it with my fellow Pigeonholers, I would have made plenty of comments along the way (It was on PH a while back, but unfortunately I didn't get a spot, so had to make do with reading on my own.)!

Anyway, despite how they were repeatedly knocked down, I loved the fighting spirit Edgar, Ragna and Aldred continuously showed.

I loved that the book contained a couple of strong female characters (Ragna obviously and Edgar's mother, Mildred.) Was nice to see that, they atleast, wouldn't let themselves be walked all over unlike certain other characters!

Anyway, I really enjoyed this and definitely would highly recommend it to others.