Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2 books in series)
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review 1: Not my kind of book. We read it for book club and for me, it was a chore, a long chore. There were a lot of beautiful passages, but that wasn't enough to engage me. I didn't care much for Cromwell or anyone else for that matter. I'm not much one for royalty or their hangers-on. I...
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review 1: The historical plausibility is astonishing, you start to feel you inhabit this world and start to adopt its norms, it's fear of disease, the constant references to authority (of God or king), the jockeying for position and how the common man is almost unseen. It struck me how eru...