most of this is really good, and offers beautiful imagery for the grief of leaving a faith community and what it offers to folks who manage to get out
my only critiques are 1)it does meander a good bit and sometimes seems like he has lost his own point in the imagery building and 2)he is straining with some of his scriptural interpretations (his opening ideas about the mustard seed are an immediate example, later he talks about jesus' words about judgment and in the former I think he just interprets something the passage doesn't say, in the second I think he's trying to make a passage acceptable that we could just go 'yknow what? this passage is painful and maybe we should reconsider even giving it weight') It was a curious flaw in the book, particularly given his background and the fact that there ARE passages that would match and support what he's trying to say in the book (I was genuinely surprised at him not using the book of Acts very much--that would seem to align very well with the concept of "holy runaways")
the memoir parts are the best parts 

this one meandered more than the first one and I felt like it took SO long to get to the conclusion. I also felt like Cromwell's affection for Thomas Wyatt came out of nowhere at the end, like he spoke as if this was a known, familiar character, even saying he was always at the house and yet I could barely find any mention of him when I looked back through it. 
I did appreciate the adjustment of identifying who was speaking, but I still don't really understand why she didn't just write it in first person.
hopefully just a case of middle book in a trilogy being weaker than the first or final books.

I enjoyed the atmosphere and the retelling of history through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell. I did find the use of third person and lack of clarity in who was speaking, confusing (I had to start mentally translating it to "I" so it would make sense)
knowing the real ending of this part of history definitely adds emotional weight to the plot