it’s been on mine (three years? four?) then bring it to the top. it makes perfect summer reading.
you make it sound extremely tempting, even though i do not like medieval settings as a rule.
i don’t usually like medieval settings either, because i know too much about the middle ages and they don’t normally get the details right. but hawkins has done a lot of research and got it right without being heavy-handed, so it was a lot of fun to read. and since half the book is modern, you do get a break from the medieval stuff as well. 