The Burning Chambers (The Joubert Family Chronicles)

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I’m Lucy, an award-winning book blogger, bibliotherapist and writer with a passion for brilliant books, independent bookstores, literary travel and book festivals around the world. The Literary Edit is your guide to the beautiful world of books. The prologue, set in Franschoek, South Africa in 1862, indicates that the story doesn’t end in 16th century France. A woman carrying precious secret papers stands in a graveyard, to complete one final mission. She is thwarted. But this massive historical saga will obviously continue in Mosse’s second, third and fourth instalments of this quartet.

Rich with historical detail, as you'd expect from Mosse, but it's Minou, the fiery heroine, who makes this a must-read - Book of the Month, Good Housekeeping Mosse keeps her focus firmly on the love stories and the mysteries surrounding Minou and Piet, a touching affair of the heart which keeps the entire novel grounded. Because make no mistake, the plot of The Burning Chambers is enormously complex and ambitious; the sheer number of characters is mind-blowing. rounded down for an intense and powerful novel set around 1562, Kate Mosse’s The Burning Chambers takes its inspiration from the Political and Religious unrest in France, combines with an intriguing and fascinating plot and well-drawn characters to deliver a wonderful story that is gripping, exciting and tense from start to finish.

France, 1562. War sparks between the Catholics and Huguenots, dividing neighbors, friends, and family―meanwhile, nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: She knows that you live. Puntos fuertes: lectura ágil y amena gracias a un lenguaje sencillo, diálogos y capítulos breves, una trama bien construida y la confluencia de diferentes subtramas, la envolvente y cuidada ambientación histórica, la intriga en torno a la protagonista y su pasado, personajes bien construidos, la prosa narrativa de la autora y el final. In her own life, Kate has cared for her father and mother, and for her 90-year-old mother-in-law, Granny Rosie. Through this, she has experienced the joys, challenges and frustrations shared by an invisible army of carers. A very intriguing historical fiction read! This takes place in the mid-1500's during the time of the religious wars in France between the Catholics and the Huguenots. Mosse did a remarkable job in portraying the atmosphere and the climate of those times as well as imagining a fast-paced mystery that kept my interest - a family with a secret. I liked the strong female characters portrayed and enjoyed the romance between Minou and Piet. 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.

The focus in her historical fiction has always been on the untold stories of women and Minou is an appealing heroine. Mosse includes all the ingredients you would expect from a historical epic – murder, treachery, lost children, stolen relics, buried secrets – but she also dramatises the complexities of 16th-century French and Dutch politics without weighing it down. This is a compelling story of how political upheavals play out in individual lives - Stephanie Merritt, The Observer The reason I share this context is because this is what Mosse has woven perfectly into her novel of the Burning Chambers. There is an abundance of historical detail here that is stitched into the fabric of the novel so well, you feel it was written for the book. A superb historical fiction author and a brilliantly researched book that is rich with historical references. However, it is a novel and here is the plot. This not Romantic story it's got love it it but so has the Bible & would not call that a Romance would you.

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. Comienza con un prólogo fechado en 1862 en Sudáfrica, que nos permite entender cuales serán los nexos comunes de la trama de esta trilogía: un diario, un testamento, un antiguo secreto y dos familias enfrentadas desde hace 300 años.