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The Burning Chambers: Kate Mosse (The Burning Chambers, 1)

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Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. After a slow start, it's pretty pacey, and I have to give props for the seriously dark suggestion that those alive at the end of this book might visit Paris for the wedding of Henri III and the feast of Bartholomew.

Very soon it will be a race against time for Ana to help persuade the town that they are in danger and should flee before the volcano erupts and destroys their world. Around the same time, Minou, who is Catholic, becomes deeply drawn to Piet Reydon, a Huguenot on a quest for his faith. Although The Burning Chambers is 586 pages long, a lengthy novel, I read it in two days because I felt like I was part of a grand adventure thanks to her captivating, rip-roaring plot and the novel's gripping history. Eventually, the various story lines and leading characters converge on the place that holds the key to one element of the mystery before building to a dramatic climax. The gripping sequel to The Burning Chambers is set in France in 1572, where the Wars of Religion have been raging for ten violent years.

Kate Mosse is loved by her fans for her sweeping historical fiction series The Joubert Family Chronicles, but she is also the author of nine novels and short story collections, including her enthralling gothic novel The Taxidermist’s Daughter, the haunting ghost story The Winter Ghosts and her spooky short story collection The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales. Because Piet is on a mission of his own and the chance encounter proves perilous for both as loyalties are tested. Kate Mosse is an international bestselling author with sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages. Beginning in Carcassonne in 1562, The Burning Chambers is a thrilling adventure and a heartbreaking love story set against the backdrop of the religious wars in France.

Mosse is a master storyteller, balancing thrilling suspense with complex characters and a thoughtful exploration of a fascinating time in history. Según palabras de la autora, esta trilogía comienza con esta entrega desarrollada en la ciudad medieval de Carcasona en 1562 y concluirá, abarcando más de trescientos años de historia, en Sudáfrica en 1862. What a great way to both have a wonderful read and learn of all the complexities of this time period (1561-72), and all the hostilities and difficulties that people had to live with.

Meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. The object of her wrath, the reason for it, and its relation to the main narrative are revealed only gradually, and as this takes shape, Mosse’s skill at marshalling the multiple strands of her story becomes evident. Minou's father is not in the best of health and keeping family secrets from his daughter that have the power to destroy Minou and the family. harm can be done by those who proffer an opinion when they are only in partial possession of the facts. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK).

The adventure continues in the second book in the series, The City of Tears, set in Paris, Chartres and Amsterdam in 1572, before Mosse takes us to seventeenth-century North Africa in her most recent novel, The Ghost Ship. I've read and enjoyed two of Kate Mosses' books before, but unfortunately I thought that The Burning Chamber was not of the same high standard. The last quarter really saved the book, and I’m hoping all the meandering and emphasis on the societal aspects of the Huguenot/Catholic wars was setup for the future books in the series, which I will definitely be reading!

The story is based in Carcassonne and then Toulouse where bitter battles were fought between the Huguenots and Catholics. If, like me, your knowledge of 16th-century royal and political life and religious wars is somewhat limited, narration really helps; there’s something clear and precise about having the details of the conflict between the Huguenots and Catholics go straight into my listening brain.

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