Hello! You probably don’t remember meeting me. But last fall I was in a class when you came and spoke in a homeschool group. I came up to you after you spoke and bought the first Dragons In Our Midst book and you signed to for me. You told me that Molly was the Irish girl name.
To tell you the truth, after you spoke I really didn’t think I was going to buy a book. Especially after I heard it was about dragons, since I’m a total girly-girly. But, God had a plan. And my best friend decided that I HAD to buy one of your books. I really didn’t want to and I gave the excuse that I didn’t have enough money with me and I couldn’t get any from my mom because she was out of town. Well, my friend dug around in my purse and found that I had exactly 13 dollars, just enough to buy a book. So I bought your book, not thinking much about it.
I went home and I was kind of bored, so I opened up the book and started reading, just so I could see what it was about, you know. Well I started reading and I realized that it was about teenagers. And I love reading books about people my own age, so a little more interested, I read more. And then after a while, all I wanted to do was read the book! I fell in love with the characters!
And every time I opened it (even though i wasn’t saved at the time) I could kind of feel God’s presence.
Well, I finished the first book and immediately I ordered the other three off the internet. I read them quickly and found out that every one of them got better and better! I loved how you fit everything in!
And I’m still amazed at how everything you wrote always fits together even though its so complex! I told everybody how much I loved these books! And, a few of them thought it was strange that I was so in love with a book about dragons since I don’t really fit the profile of a dragon lover.
Well, still unsaved, I finished the series. And, after reading them over a few times I found out about the other series, Oracles of Fire. I quickly ordered the first two, since they were the only ones available at that time. Instead of reading the Eye of the Oracle first, I wanted to pick up where Dragons In Our Midst left off with Walter and Ashley. I began reading and fell in love with it too. Although I should have read the other book first, I quickly picked up on the new characters.
One night, I started reading the part about when Walter goes to watch Morgan get thrown into the lake of fire. At that moment, I cant explain what I felt. Instead of being scared about going to hell which is what you would think someone would feel like while reading such a descriptive scene, I all of a sudden realized the sin in my life. And I looked up from the book and at that moment I felt so ashamed of all the things I had done. And I repented and just gave everything up to God. And it was the most awesome feeling! I was finally free! And I had this urge to go and tell others about Jesus! So they would never have to be thrown into the lake of fire and be sent to eternal torture! And I didn’t really even realize at the moment that I had officially gotten saved. Because, when I was in the first grade, at a Christian school, the teacher had said after a Bible lesson during prayer, if anyone felt like they needed to be saved to raise their hand. And so, I realized then, that I had never gotten saved so I raised my hand and I actually prayed a prayer. But, the Lord hadn’t been convicting me at that age. And in the prayer, I hadn’t thought of my sins. I didn’t repent of them. And it didn’t occur to me that when you get saved you couldn’t do the same things you used to. But i was completely oblivious to that. So, over the years, I believed that I was really saved. Until that night when I read your book and everything became so clear!
So, after that night, my life has changed! I now live for God! And still, every time I read one of your books, I feel like I’m filled with the Holy Spirit! After Enoch’s Ghost, I read Eye of the Oracle and Last of the Nephilim. Both of which where amazing like all your others! Eye of the Oracle and Last of the Nephilim especially inspired me in that I need to sacrifice, and that God is there no matter where you are!
I’ve recently been reading these books to my younger sister who is ten years old. And she loves them as well! We only have a few more pages left to read in Eye of the Oracle and we’ve already read all of Dragons In Our Midst. I’ve also been letting some of my friends borrow them and they love them too! Oh, and I cannot wait until Bones Of Makaidos comes out! Even though, reading the other books over and over never really gets old!
And I just wrote this so that I could thank you soooooo much for writing these incredible books! I believe you truly are a man of God! And God is working through you in mighty ways! Every time I open up one of the books, I get inspired in some way! I don’t believe I will EVER find books so amazing and inspiring as these! I love EVERYTHING about them! The danger, the characters, the suspense, EVERYTHING! I don’t see how anyone could fit ALL of the things included in these books into literature. And it amazes me how everything fits together! And how nothing contradicts another thing! I guess its just one of those things where I have to say, “It is totally a God thing!”
And i couldn’t thank you enough! Never!