Wolf Hall
2009 • 26 pages

Ratings200

Average rating3.9

15

This has been on my to-read pile for some time now, and I decided to pick it up after reading all sorts of good stuff about Bringing Up The Bodies in the commentary of the Tournament of Books. For the first few chapters, I was really into it, but after that it felt like it was just dragging on. I didn't find Mantel's prose to be all that engaging, and I really didn't like the way she handled dialogue and moving in and out of Cromwell's perspective. I did learn a little about British history, but I could have learned it faster from Wikipedia.

April 13, 2013