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

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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. 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.

The plot centers on a disputed inheritance and a stolen religious relic that ruthless men will stop at nothing to possess. 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 author did an excellent job at capturing the turbulence, the sense of mistrust and need for survival during a period of political instability.

This takes place in the mid-1500's during the time of the religious wars in France between the Catholics and the Huguenots. 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). Taking place in France during the 1500s, our main character is Minou Joubert, a nineteen-year-old woman. This as it says is only book one but don't worry as the next book is set in another time zone about different people .

Around the same time, Minou, who is Catholic, becomes deeply drawn to Piet Reydon, a Huguenot on a quest for his faith. harm can be done by those who proffer an opinion when they are only in partial possession of the facts. Kate Mosse's much-loved non-fiction book shares the story of what it is like to care for those we love. She has received an anonymous letter bearing an unknown crest and the cryptic message: “She knows that you live. If you gave Mary Berry flour, butter, eggs and sugar, you could be absolutely sure she’d create the perfect Victoria sponge cake.En su destino se cruza Piet Reydon, un hugonote perseguido por sus ideas y que custodia un codiciado tesoro al que su mayor enemigo (y anteriormente mejor amigo) quiere atrapar. 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. Toulouse: As the religious divide deepens in the Midi, and old friends become enemies, Minou and Piet both find themselves trapped in Toulouse, facing new dangers as sectarian tensions ignite across the city, the battle-lines are drawn in blood and the conspiracy darkens further.

In the story, we see the somewhat rebellious and spirited Minou and the cautious but driven Piet, but above all most of the characters, rightly or wrongly are shaped by their ideals, principles, and beliefs. In Kate Mosse's Joubert Family Chronicles series, she takes readers on a thrilling journey from 16th-century France to Paris, Amsterdam, London and beyond, in a gripping story of love, betrayal and divided loyalties. 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. Especially as it's used to link that add-on future storyline (of the prologue/epilogue)- one more tenuous connection to make it seem like it should be in this book at all. Emprendí con entusiasmo la lectura de esta nueva trilogía, después de haber leído, hace algún tiempo, El laberinto y Sepulcro de esta misma autora.I absolutely loved Kate Mosse’s Languedoc trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel) and the atmospheric The Winter Ghosts.