Book review
Review of The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
I got the City of Tears by Kate Mosse for free from Netgalley for a fair and honest review.
The City of Tears, is the sequel to The Burning Chambers, which are the first, two books in the Trilogy The Burning Chambers.
The novel starts in August 1572: Minou Joubert and her family are in Paris for a Royal Wedding, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and the Huguenot King of Navarre intended to bring peace to France after a decade of religious wars. So too is their oldest enemy, Vidal, still in pursuit of a relic that will change the course of history. But within days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the streets and Minou’s beloved family will be scattered to the four winds . . .
Once again Kate Mosse takes us to the religious wars in France during the late 16th Century, when the country was divided between the Catholic and Protestent Churches. The novel once again is set around Minou and her family.
As this is the second book in the series I will limit the review to the style of the book rather than the plot lines so there are no spoilers.
Like all Kate Mosse’s books The City of Tears is a really enjoyable read, from the ease that she brings the reader gentle reminders of what happened in The Burning Chambers the first book in the series, which allows us as readers to get into the story once again.
In addition with this being an historical novel dealing with the Religious Wars of 17th Century France, Like many of the readers i know some of this time period, but with brief history of the time which the book covers, to the way that the story unfolds you get to know how this book fits in to the time period.
The story is written in the first person all the way through the book, however the person whose eyes you are seeing the world changes from one person to another, which allows the plot to run smoothly all the way through the book.
While each chapter may contain a number of different perspectives, the change over from one pearsons view to another was usually very easy to follow. There were only a couple of times that I had to go back and check when I was unsure of whose perspective I was reading at the time.
What I liked about this novel Is that it shows what the writer Kate Mosse, is really good by taking a conflict based around people’s beliefs, which has a profound effect on an area or a country and humanises it, by taking it down to the individual level and seeing how it affects people’s everyday lives.
In conclusion, once again the writer has brought a really great read to her current and future readers, so if you have read the first book in the series then of course this book should be on your TBR, if you have not then unfortunately both books should be added toyour TBR.
- Goodreads rating – 4.23
- SUMMARY – Mark taylor