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threadofgrace 's review for:
A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel
I really liked this book. Not a perfect novel by a long shot. You can definitely see how Mantel improves as a novelist between this and Wolfhall, since some of the more experimental bits (she plays around a lot with script format and primary source historical documents to tell parts of the story) don't 100 percent work. I also felt like there were definitely parts in the middle where it started to drag.
This being said, this is definitely a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's the kind of book that sticks in your head for weeks after you read it. Mantel is such a talented writer, and I found myself bookmarking sections all over the place so that I could better remember a particularly eloquent passage.
This being said, this is definitely a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It's the kind of book that sticks in your head for weeks after you read it. Mantel is such a talented writer, and I found myself bookmarking sections all over the place so that I could better remember a particularly eloquent passage.