Mantel follows her award winning [b:Wolf Hall|6101138|Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)|Hilary Mantel|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1336576165s/6101138.jpg|6278354] with another award winning novel about Thomas Cromwell and the story of Henry VIII (and his many wives.)It still amazes me, how easy it is...
I was ready to give this book 5 stars before I even started it. I loved Wolf Hall and was anxious to begin this sequel, and it was fabulous, engrossing, amusing, and beautifully written. So, why only 4 stars? It's so close to 5 stars - maybe I'm just being too stingy.In my review of Wolf Hall I gave...
Second books in a series usually falter, but this one certainly did not. This sequel to Wolf Hall chronicles the last year of Anne Boleyn and the terrible, long fall that she and her family took. Usually Thomas Cromwell is cast as the villain in the story, but here, he becomes something different, a...
I feel terrible, but I just couldn't get into this book. It's exactly like Wolf Hall in tone and style and I really enjoyed Wolf Hall but for some reason I couldn't connect with this one-right now. I'm going to put it aside and try to come back later. It's really well-written and dense and challengi...
"The enticement of historical fiction is ultimately that it smooths out the inconsistencies in the past and fills in the unknown." (Source of this quote.) This book together with the author's previous book, Wolf Hall, does exactly that with such skillful writing that I consider Hilary Mantel to be t...
Loved this. While I admired Wolf Hall, I found it a bit of a slog to get through for reasons I could never quite put my finger on. This was very different and for me an easier read. It was more tightly focused on the fall of Anne Boleyn. It's an amazing skill to write so well that the lack of tensio...
Wolf Hall was pretty wonderful, but Bring Up the Bodies is better. While the first book in the series lingered on some detail that didn't propel the story (but was nice to have anyway) the sequel is much more trim and efficient.The larger improvement, though, is the developing character of Cromwell....
Excerpt from an excellent review atThe GuardianMantel's risk, as it was in Wolf Hall, is to tell the story in the present tense, to give us Cromwell, who will himself be dead in four years' time, not seen from above, hurtling towards his inevitable end, but living his life moment by terrifying momen...
Oh how I loved this. Having (regrettably) listened to Wolf Hall on audiobook, I was determined to do the sequal, justice by holding it in my hands and savouring every word. It didn't let me down. There's something truly astonishing about Mantel's version of events. The narrative is just hypnotis...
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