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By rereading books 1 & 2 in this series, to refresh my memory before tackling the FINALLY AVAILABLE book 3, I have managed to overly sate my own appetite for capital punishment and ghoulish 16th century forms of execution, and now I'm going to have to wait a while to even want to read the conclusion. Hopefully not another 7 years, so I don't wind up here all over again.
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I really enjoy historical fiction around the Tudors, and Henry VIII in particular, so I was very interested to read this novel, which covers the weeks and days leading up to Anne Boleyn's execution from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell. But the voice used in this, a weird third-person/first-person hybrid, served to distance me from the narrative. This is, of course, on top of Cromwell's own emotional distance from the action. I kept going on this, thinking I would adapt. By the time I realized
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May 08, 2012
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