Status Updates From The Royalist

Set after Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army is in the ascendency after the Battle of Naseby it is a superb evocation of an army in winter quarters with the descriptions making the reader feel the cold whilst reading by an open fire. It also depicts well the human misery of conflict.

Actually, I already finished... I just wanted to share this one last excerpt (keep in mind it's from the next book tough haha)
"'It's a truth I've learned in the long years of this war,' I said,'that a man should never have hopes, for nothing so crushes him as the dashing of them'" (323)

I hate not being able to just read as much as I want -__-'
"The red-haired boy nodded. "But we don't count the scales balanced yet, sir. Three of us for one of them. That hardly seems just, now does it?" (199)

I hate not being able to just read as much as I want -__-'
"someone to hunt after whores and catholics and witches and any others to whom GODLY men might take offence" (83)

I hate not being able to just read what I want -__-'
"He was toying with me like a cat with a mouse.... I wished some giant hand would pluck me up, see I was done for and gently squeezed me until my eyes bulged and my heart stopped. Then Cromwell could play with a dead thing and I, at least, would be content."