Is it wrong to find a book about death so funny? Maybe, but the authors have really got a knack for the hilarious and the ridiculous, writing with such dry humour that you forget that the facts they are sharing are about actual people who suffered dreadful fates. It’s a very interesting book, as well as being entertaining, including enough historical context to really assist understanding of the times in which the often ingenious methods of causing death were developed and carried out. There is also information on the legal basis for some of the more ridiculous situations, including those involving the trial of rats. The Tudor period has been written about so much but this book has tapped new veins of rich information and done so in a way which is both amusing and informative,

I'm torn on this book. The content was informative and interesting. It was fairly well laid out, though there were a few crossovers which sort of worked. 

I wasn't keen on the informal/break the fourth wall type comments. I didn't mind some of the brief, sarcastic comments but some of the other comments were a bit too much for me. 
It felt like I'd been given the script for a podcast on death in the tudor ages. 

Also, not all of the deaths were strange. There were whole sections on the plague which killed many people so wasn't all that strange. It was definitely more a book on death in the tudor ages than just strange deaths. 

I also felt that it needed some images, particularly for the torture chapter. 

Mixed feelings.

I was expecting something more detailed and formal. Most of the information is either anecdotal or just skimming on the surface of it.