The City of Tears
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Sunday Times ‘Best Paperbacks of 2022’ ‘Feisty female characters, a plot of heart-stopping jeopardy and evocative settings’ Daily Mail ‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe ‘Magnificent, epic’ Marian Keyes Sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself – the great refugee city of Amsterdam – this is a story of one family’s fight to stay together and survive against the devastating tides of history . . . May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family’s oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, her family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . .
Series
3 primary booksThe Burning Chambers is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Kate Mosse.
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This was the second book in The Burning Chambers series and it was just as amazing as the first one!
The book was full to the brim with religious conflict, heartbreak, sadness and plenty of tension, this time through the streets of Paris and Amsterdam.
It was great reuniting with much loved characters from the first book, although sadly we had to say goodbye to a couple of them. I won't say any more on that because I don't want to spoil things for anyone who might be interested in reading the book.
The story was once again brilliantly written, with all the different plotlines coming together beautifully at the end.
There were atleast a couple of questions left unanswered, but with two more books in the series still to come, that's understandable.
Thank you to Pigeonhole and Kate Mosse for the chance to read this book.
I would definitely highly recommend this.
