I loved this! I loved Gourmet so much, and this memoir offered such enticing descriptions of food that reminded me of the style of Gourmet. It also covers the 90s, and it‘s neat to compare the food scene then to now.

I was so disappointed by this book! It sets up such an interesting premise with the prospect of the Hess interrogation and the Welsh and German perspectives of the Second World War, and then it just devolves into sexual violence against a teenager, and oh of course, she winds up pregnant. I hated the whole storyline with Esther and Jim, and kept waiting to come back to Hess. Such missed potential.

Loved this. I‘m fairly well read in Tudor history and fiction, and this brought such a different and fascinating perspective. I had read Bring Up the Bodies before I read this, and I didn‘t enjoy it very much, so I was very pleasantly surprised by how drawn into Wolf Hall I was. Highly recommend!

I enjoyed this book. It was episodic, yet still compelling. I felt the tone fit the story.

I was a little disappointed in the lack of development in the world the Kings created. The premise was intriguing, and the book is certainly long enough, but I wanted more depth.