Bring Up The Bodies

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

for some reason, i didn't enjoy it as much as i enjoyed wolf hall. i'm still loving mantel's thomas cromwell (sure, it's easy to enjoy a from-the-viewpoint-of-the-traditional-villain story, but hilary mantel's cromwell is impeccable).

maybe the problem was that the characters' names were harder to keep straight (this could be simply my aging brain, but it was difficult that sometimes he was "charles brandon" and sometimes he was just "duke of suffolk") and i couldn't remember who was related to whom. i read wolf hall in paperback and i read bring up the bodies on my kindle, and that may have made a difference. sure, you can bookmark on a kindle. but the problem is that i'm not sure when i will need a bookmark, for something to make reference to. so then by the time i realize that what i thought was an insignificant name is in fact important, it's hard for me to just flip back and find it. and of course, maybe there is an easy way to do this on my kindle and i just don't know how to do it.

but anyway, it's still a great read if you like historical fiction or if you're interested in that particularly juicy part of english royal history. i want to read more of her books. maybe "a place of greater safety"?

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