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bombycillacedrorum 's review for:
A Place of Greater Safety
by Hilary Mantel
Sprawling and absorbing if you like books with that huge epic scope and sense of total immersion into another world, and as always Mantel's prose is winding/obtuse and a bit difficult to get into at first, but once you find the rhythm, it's quite compelling. Wonderful sense of irony/black humor (there's a section where the executioner complains about how rough his working conditions are that is really amusing to me in a delightfully horrible way, and the inclusion of Laclos as a minor character is great for my LIAISONS DANGEREUSES-loving self) and also there is canon queer (hot emotional mess bisexual Camille Desmoulins, one for the ages), though it's mostly all backgrounded, so I didn't shelve it as such.