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

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Now, it's a decent romance, if a bit sappy for my liking, with the Romeo and Juliet style dividing line provided by the French Wars of Religion. Our Non-Fiction Range includes: Academic, Photography, Audio books, Business, Cook Books, Craft Books, Health and Fitness Books, Mind, Body, Spirit (Tarot). Es la historia de un país y de una religión a través de unos personajes que, en su búsqueda de sus propios sueños y objetivos, no dudan en llegar todo lo lejos que puedan y que invita al lector a reflexionar sobre el derramamiento de sangre que se produce, en este caso, en nombre de la religión.

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 . At times I felt it quite hard going because of the religious aspect but I ploughed on to be rewarded with a entertaining story based around this of divided loyalties, conspiracies, love and betrayal. The story lines involving Minou and Piet are interspersed with extracts from the testimony of an unnamed woman who reveals herself as something of a Lady Macbeth character, prepared to stop at nothing to achieve her aims. Minou's father is not in the best of health and keeping family secrets from his daughter that have the power to destroy Minou and the family.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.

Staggering into the woods, he comes to a small village, where beautiful Fabrissa is also steeped in loss.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 mystery itself and the romance work quite well, but the strength of this book is Mosse’s extensive knowledge and evocative description of the beautiful region in which it is set and the intricacies of the religious problem. Ana, a young Spanish woman, lives in a small town on the north-west coast of Tenerife which lies in the shadow of a mighty volcano.

A thrilling adventure and a heartbreaking love story, The Burning Chambers is a historical novel of excitement, conspiracy and danger like no other . In an attempt to decipher the note and learn the truth behind the mysterious message, Minou sets herself on a path that endangers her own life and that of Piet Reydon. The religious divide between Catholicism and Protestantism is growing deeper and deeper, and this sets the dangerous and foreboding backdrop for Minou and Piet. Her father, Bernard Joubert, was a faithful Catholic, but it was her late mother, who was a true Languedocien, promoting tolerance through selling books expressing her believes.Meanwhile, there are powerful forces at play to recover the stolen fragment of the ‘Shroud of Antioch’ a relic with great significance in the Catholic Church, and there are those that will stop at nothing to get it back.