City of Tears (Kate Mosse, Burning Chambers Books 2)

I very much enjoyed reading The City of Tears. I have not read the Burning Chambers and I did not feel as though I was missing part of the story but having enjoyed so much this novel, I have now embarked into the Burning Chamber too. The book is superbly written and researched. The reader feels totally immersed in 16th Century France and Amsterdam, with all the dramatic events that occurred due to the tensions between Catholics and Huguenots, fights for power and influence, and the hunt for precious relics. The characters are strong, interesting and depicted with a beautiful writing that brings them to life. The plot is very good and, after a start where the reader needs to take in quite a lot of details, it is woven through the whole book until the last sentence. A really excellent historical novel. Looking forward to the third book now.
Many thanks to Netgalley, to the publisher Pan MacMillan and to the author Kate Mosse, for the advanced readers copy of this great book.