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. Not only is that a conflict but long time friends Piet, now a Huguenot, and Vilad, a Catholic priest, are fighting over the purported shroud of Christ.

In Kate Mosse's Joubert Family Chronicles series, she takes readers on a thrilling journey from 16th-century France to Paris, Amsterdam, London and beyond, in a gripping story of love, betrayal and divided loyalties. 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. Through this, she has experienced the joys, challenges and frustrations shared by an invisible army of carers. In the same way, in The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse expertly combines all the ingredients necessary for a deliciously satisfying historical fiction novel…with the Prologue providing the promise of further appetising slices still to come. We begin with Sunday Times bestselling historical fiction novel The Burning Chambers, set in France in 1562.Minou happens to meet a Huguenot convert, the young Piet Reydon who has his own personal quest in defending his faith to the utmost to fulfill, and is going to need her help in extricating himself from La Cite. On the other hand, it is fair to suggest that the freedom of spirit and thought that led to Catharism taking so strong a hold in Languedoc in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, before being all but wiped out in the fourteenth century, was reflected in Huguenot communities during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In 1912 in a Sussex churchyard, villagers gather on the evening when the spirits of those who will die in the coming year will be seen. But most of all this about Religion started with war on 1st March 1562 with Massacre of unarmed Huguenots in Vassy by The Catholic forces of Francis Duke of Guise this religion at its worst.

Kate Mosse's "Languedoc Trilogy": Labyrinth, Sepulchre, and Citadel are three of my favorite historical fiction novels, so I was oh so thrilled when I heard she was writing a new series set again in the Languedoc province of France and even more excited to get my hands on a review copy of The Burning Chambers (let me just say that there's some serious cover love going on between me and this book!

It was sweet, but seemed QUITE unfounded…however, ignoring that little issue, the last quarter of the book really picked up the pace and made me MUCH more invested in the characters and their story, as everyone actually came together instead of being scattered all across the map.

Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. Kate Mosse has written her trademark gripping historical fiction packed with adventure, mystery, conflict and romance. The Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, she is the Founder of the global Woman In History campaign.

Her books include the multimillion-selling Languedoc trilogy which begins with the unmissable Labyrinth, and the bestselling more recent series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. 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 . It brought to life a time when democracy did not exist, and those at the seat of power had the control and means to promote and also suppress those views that were inconsistent with their own. And yet, within this environment, neighbours would band together to protect their own against the forces that sought to crush them. The second book--teased at the beginning and at the end--seems like it will be more character driven.