Review: The City of Tears

The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Full disclosure:  I received a free Advanced Reader's Copy of this book from St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books via NetGalley in exchange for possibly writing a review.

The City of Tears is the second book in the Burning Chambers series by Kate Mosse.  You will want to read the first book before this one as this book builds upon that foundation.  The length of the books requires a willingness to invest in the Reydon family.  I read pretty fast, but they still took me several days to finish.

This book takes place ten years after the last one.  All your favorite characters are here and doing well.  There are even a few new additions.   You know that can't last forever because the Catholics still hate the Huguenots and vice versa.  A royal wedding takes the family to Paris which is where things start to go horribly wrong.  There's less mystery in this book than the first.  In fact, there is a lot of sadness for about two-thirds of the book.  Life was not easy in the 1500s.  Just when you think this book is just the story of a family trying to survive religious persecution, the tension and action really ramp up, and you are racing with them to the end of the story.

I'm not going to spoil the end, but I felt Kate Mosse set herself up for a possible third book.  We'll see.

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