Mill Wilmott

I was disappointed by this book. I’d been told I might be but thought it couldn’t be true. I’ve read Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies twice, a rare thing for me to do, and I greedily checked for the publication date, but very much doubt I’ll reread The Mirror and the Light. It was like a dream that you wake from with the distinct impression you’ve had the dream before. I was skimming whole paragraphs, sure that I had read them before in either this book or one of the others. Thomas recounting the burning of a woman he witnessed as a child being the most illustrative of this. I’m gutted I’m leaving a poor review but I have to say that the length of the book was not justified. I wonder if the editor was in awe of the writer and failed her. Despite knowing that Cromwell would not survive Henry I didn’t want to say goodbye to the character and was sad at the end. But I did reread the last 2 pages twice as such an abrupt death scene was in such contrast to the, at times, soporific content of this book.