he is a Christian author, but he caters to a secular crowd, so you can get alot out of his books even if you are not religious. the point
of finding a series like this is to get out
of your head instead
of trying to get everything else out of it. what does it for me is character driven stories. stories of far away places completely unlike my own. where i can delve into someone else' life and then go to sleep at night thinking of that instead of what i am anxious about.