The Ghost Ship: An Epic Historical Novel from the Number One Bestselling Author (The Joubert Family Chronicles)
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The Ghost Ship: An Epic Historical Novel from the Number One Bestselling Author (The Joubert Family Chronicles)
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I did greatly enjoy the romance, although I found it overly restrained, much like the rest of the story. You can feel the wind in your hair, smell the salty seas and hear the roar of the waves so vividly creating such magnificent imagery. While the concept of this book is really interesting, and the plot does keep you intrigued, I struggled with the style of writing.
Constantly under threat of discovery, the two protagonists must ensure that their secrets, both individual and combined, are hidden well. From the ending I know the next book will likely tell us the rest of Louise's story but because of this it feels more like a book to take us between stories, travelling with the ship to take the characters to the next setting. Whilst in La Rochelle she meets Gilles Barenton and is immediately attracted to this young man, however Gilles hides a secret. In this, Cornelia van Raay, the companion of Louise’s great-aunt, provides an example of a woman making her way in a man’s world, and one in an unconvential relationship. Right when Louise finally starts coming into her own as a character and taking charge of her own life, we get a prologue of another character who is trying to find her many years later as she vanished off the face of the earth.She is a sixteenth century hero with the modern flair thrown into the story to give it a very different type of story.
Attracted to the description of this as “a sweeping historical epic of adventure on the high seas” I was disappointed to find out that most of this story does not take place at sea.We are left hanging and wondering what became of her and if she really did overcome her struggles and live life on her own terms. However, this wasn’t the book I was expecting so the many subplots of the characters’ back stories seemed like barriers to what I thought would be the main story of an adventure at sea. The 3rd tome of the Burning Chamber series is coming out this month and I am so thankful I have been given a galley! The novel explores the boundaries of acceptable life back in the 1620s, and refers to her great aunt Alys and her companion Cornelia - far from the norm.
While her and her crew are hunting for pirates they come across a mysterious ghost ship, silently floating around the Barbary coast with only one survivor, a slave who they offer safety to. This book requires you to read The Burning Chambers and The City of Tears for a proper understanding. Do they really think we will have hung on to their every word or that we haven’t read scores of other books in the intervening period? Once again, Mosse delivers an engrossing piece of storytelling, steeped in historical detail and featuring another fabulous female protagonist in Louise Raydon-Joubert.We see some mention of Minou, her sister Alis, Alis's companion Cornelia, and Minou's daughter, Barnarda (who is unfortunately quite unpleasant). I loved the Languedoc trilogy but the Joubert Chronicles have just got more and more disappointing as they progress. It was her right hand person, her lover, Gilles, who Mosse used beautifully to bring out Louise’s more genteel side.
- Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
- EAN: 764486781913
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