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

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The prologue and part of the epilogue are the only two sections which relate to the larger series, the only bits which tell the reader there's more than this book as a standalone, and it's not clear that this is what they're for. Even my sleep was bookended with it, reading late into the night and waking up to read more over breakfast. 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 Burning Chambers contains an impressive amount of historical detail woven into a story that is highly accessible and vividly engaging.

This historical fiction shows a past time of France history when a similar battle between the neighbours took place. Bernard sends Minou and Aimeric to Toulouse to stay with his dead wife's sister and her important husband, a Catholic town official to keep them safe but that doesn't work. Here she takes us back to France's Wars of Religion and the harrowing blood letting that took place in that historical time period, bringing back echoes of my studies of these events in European History long ago when the established Catholic Church was determined that no Huguenots should remain in the country.

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A perfectly combined story of love, deceit, survival and war that draws on real historical events that are authentic and rich in detail. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need Minou’s help if he is to get out of La Cité alive . This is a fantastic idea for a historical series--it focuses on a lesser known period of European history, it's about what it's like to live in a world where people fight over religion (some things never change, sadly)--but the execution doesn't work. The Burning Chambers is the first in a planned series charting the Huguenot diaspora from the wars of religion in 16th-century France to 19th-century South Africa, and here a prologue set in a Franschhoek graveyard in 1862 hints at the sweep of the story to come.

You well know that if a lie is repeated often enough, in the face of the clearest evidence to the contrary, even the most level-headed of men start to believe in it. Minou is great and I loved that she acted demure enough to blend in seamlessly in the current French society no matter where she was…but beneath all that “proper-ness” was a backbone of steel and GOD HELP ANYONE who tried to hurt her loved ones. Meanwhile, as a long-hidden document threatens to resurface, the mistress of Puivert is obsessed with uncovering its secret and strengthening her power . The second book--teased at the beginning and at the end--seems like it will be more character driven.

Labyrinth tells the story of Alais and Alice – the first a young woman in thirteenth-century Carcassone who is given a strange book by her father which purports to hold the mystery of the true Grail, the second who discovers two skeletons in a cave in the French Pyrenees in 2005.She has received an anonymous letter bearing an unknown crest and the cryptic message: “She knows that you live. Impressively bold and ambitious, it features betrayals, broken friendship, family secrets and the horrors of fanaticism. It was sweet, but seemed QUITE unfounded…however, ignoring that little issue, the last quarter of the book really picked up the pace and made me MUCH more invested in the characters and their story, as everyone actually came together instead of being scattered all across the map.

Clearly this is something that's going to be spread out over the series, but what it means is that you're going to get three romances with a side of somewhat flimsy (at least in this instalment) thriller. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de’ Medici and Jeanne d’Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre.The atmosphere is on point, and I was transported to France during this unique and tumultuous time period. Esta novela histórica se desarrolla en Francia en el siglo XVI, y nos muestra la lucha de poder entre católicos y protestantes (hugonotes), siendo esta intolerancia religiosa, uno de los elementos más fuertes de la novela. A man might do better to hold his tongue than scatter words without a care as to where they might land. 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. This set in France around a Catholic Girl Minou Joubert sent a strange letter SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE.