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

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Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. She has received an anonymous letter bearing an unknown crest and the cryptic message: “She knows that you live. First-rate cloak and dagger excitement – who knew the religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots in sixteenth-century France could be so riveting to modern audiences? The political background to the wars of religion is enormously complex, and Mosse is careful not to simplify it to Protestants good, Catholics bad; there is treachery and honour on both sides, and the fight is not for the ascendancy of one side or the other, but for a higher prize: “Tolerance and dignity and freedom: Piet was ready to lay down his life to defend these principles. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office.

El ritmo de la novela es bastante ágil, contada a través de un narrador omnisciente (con pocas páginas narradas en primera persona), con continuos acontecimientos que cambian el rumbo de la historia y que nos conduce a un final tenso y dramático, pero muy emocionante.Emprendí con entusiasmo la lectura de esta nueva trilogía, después de haber leído, hace algún tiempo, El laberinto y Sepulcro de esta misma autora.

People who were neighbors now become enemies - and many of these people are drawn into the conflict as unwitting victims. it made my head spin at times, trying to figure out who was on what side and who was a spy and who was playing both sides! Kate is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously the Orange Prize) and in June 2013, was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyalties . Meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium.On top of that, there's a lot of repetition of language and imagery, which is supposed to provide connection between the varying POV storylines, but which feel annoying and lazy. However, ‘old crimes cast long shadows…’ so this is a feud that could continue down the generations. The author did an excellent job at capturing the turbulence, the sense of mistrust and need for survival during a period of political instability.