In the same way, in The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse expertly combines all the ingredients necessary for a deliciously satisfying historical fiction novel…with the Prologue providing the promise of further appetising slices still to come. The 2nd book, City of Tears, has just been released, but I wanted to start with this book and it certainly did not disappoint. I don't know much about this period in France's history other than briefly touching on the period in high school history class, so I found the historical aspect really interesting.

But aside from this, Mosse is practised at creating vivid scenes — in this case, a court wedding that is overtaken by the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, with profound consequences for her protagonists.Te gustará si: buscas una novela histórica, si te gustan las historias ambientadas en la Francia de 1560, que se adentren en el conflicto religioso entre católicos y hugonotes o si te gusta el estilo narrativo de la autora. Instead the reader is plunged into the sights and sounds of 16th century France, a time of religious strife between the Catholic Church and Protestant Huguenots.

In her own life, Kate has cared for her father and mother, and for her 90-year-old mother-in-law, Granny Rosie. The Story: Against a backdrop of conflict between Catholics and Protestants in 1562 France, 19-year-old Minou Joubert, the intelligent and spirited Catholic daughter of a bookseller, and Piet Reydon, a warmhearted Huguenot soldier, fall in love in this tense, atmospheric thriller, the first of a trilogy. The refrain “old secrets cast long shadows” echoes through the many layers of deception and discovery. 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. Kate Mosse's "Languedoc Trilogy": Labyrinth, Sepulchre, and Citadel are three of my favorite historical fiction novels, so I was oh so thrilled when I heard she was writing a new series set again in the Languedoc province of France and even more excited to get my hands on a review copy of The Burning Chambers (let me just say that there's some serious cover love going on between me and this book!Not only is that a conflict but long time friends Piet, now a Huguenot, and Vilad, a Catholic priest, are fighting over the purported shroud of Christ. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. A masterly tour of history; a rapturous romance; and – best of all – a breathless thriller, alive with treachery, with danger, with atmosphere, with beauty.

This is a story of mystery, conspiracy, betrayal, love, and family secrets amidst the most turbulent of times. Joyous, celebratory and engaging, Kate Mosse's book is for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made. A man might do better to hold his tongue than scatter words without a care as to where they might land. Set in the 16th Century during the wars between the Catholics and Huguenots Mosse brings alive the story with the descriptive attention to detail giving a real sense of the period.

The two become entangled in the most dangerous of situations, amid religious conflict, friend betraying friend, and forces pursuing Minou for their own end. I should have read a nonfiction book about it instead, because it definitely takes a back seat in this book. Definitivamente Kate Mosse tiene una habilidad impecable para construir una historia alrededor de hechos históricos reales, con lenguaje sencillo, pero muy cuidado, y una apasionante trama.

La ciudad del fuego" es la primera entrega de una trilogía en la que Kate Mosse nos lleva de la mano a la truculenta Francia de 1562. He was engaged in a battle for the very soul of France, a battle that would define how men could live and be free. Legend says the volcano is home to the Devil himself, but for thousands of years it has stood quietly idle, posing no threat. When nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter reading only SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE, she realises she must decipher this mysterious message.

Ambos se ven atrapados en medio de la creciente tensión entre católicos y hugonotes, a la vez que la misteriosa señora de Bruyere amenaza el futuro de Minou. For some reason I am not capable to get through this with any kind of pace or experiencing any reading-pleasure. Her books include the multimillion-selling Languedoc trilogy which begins with the unmissable Labyrinth, and the bestselling more recent series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. The Burning Chambers contains all the elements a reader has come to love and expect from a Kate Mosse novel: strong female characters, secrets passed down through generations, an inheritance, a forgery, a Will, a labyrinthine but totally absorbing plot. The pages that head each part are adorned with photos that compliment the setting of the next section, a nice touch that firmly gives the reader a sense of time and place.