regshoe

I think in themselves I like Ewen and Keith pretty much equally—they're so different and complement each other so well, and I love that about them!—but I have more personal feeling for Keith, and I find myself liking him more out of a desire to redress the balance of Ewen's disproportionate popularity and narrative favour. Anyway, the illustrated edition sounds very cool :D

Agh, the sequels... it's a difficult question, and Gleam in the North at least is a very good book in parts (The Dark Mile, otoh, undermines whatever good stuff there was in it with that exceedingly silly ending); but as sequels to FotH, yeah, I dislike them. That's not the story I stuck around here for, and it's not what really matters ( ♥ ).

Those are both good points! And I know I've read things from that era that were actually published as children's books and thought they didn't really seem like it (e.g. Sutcliff's stuff, which is pretty similar to Broster's really).