lbjessome 's review for:

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

4.0

challenging dark informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Excellent, informative yet still confusing and often tedious. Mantel had yet to perfect her approach to complex historical fiction when she wrote this one - she appears to have included nearly every actual historical actor in the text, with very little effort to differentiate them from one another. I am sort of glad I read it but cannot recommend it to anyone.