The first book I finished in 2024, though started in early December is the second book in Hillary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy’ ‘Bring up the bodies’ is principally a telling of Thomas Cromwell’s procedure to organise the trial, annulment and execution of Anne Boleyn following her marriage to Henry VIII at the end of the first book. This led most of the book to be lacking in major plot events, just full of court life and legal troubles. I don’t recall ‘Wolf Hall’ reading overly differently, though do seem to believe I preferred the first of the series. The only section of the book with any real engaging plot was the final sequence of trials and executions of those accused of adultery with the Queen, and then my audiobook for some reason spent 30 minutes with an alternate ending which contained most of the same elements of the first so I really didn’t see the point of such. If one has read ‘Wolf Hall’ and are deliberating wether to continue the trilogy, after my experience with the second book I would suggest not to bother, whereas given I have read two now and hopefully events that lead to the fall of Cromwell in the final part will be more engaging, I think I will still listen to ‘The Mirror and the Light’ when the ungodly length of hold wait ends.