The Huguenot Chronicles: Books 1 - 3: A historical fiction trilogy

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Whilst it's good to see a historical novel that's set outside the reigns of Henry VIII or Elizabeth I for once, I found it hard to get excited about this trilogy. I would love to see this made into a film, one of the great Epics such as Dr Zhivago, this is how much this story has impressed me. The book is written about a family in France in 1685 trying to escape the persecution because they are not Catholic which is the Kings religion.

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In reality, even the most evil of mankind are born with not only a depraved sinful nature, they are also born carrying the very image of God. As a descendant of Huguenots who arrived to New Amsterdam in the 1600s, I was very interested in the history.As I read further and further into this book I found myself almost breathlessly waiting to see the next event in the lives of the characters. Their stories are about fleeing from or being ejected from France by the French king who was Catholic. There's no indication that the author plans to continue the Huguenot saga on to settlement in the New World, even if he leaves the Delpeche family in Ireland.

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Add into that a range of characters that feel too good to be true and a series of highly unlikely co-incidences designed to reunite characters or get them to specific places at a specific time and the whole thing never quite comes together. For some, it's a journey into their Huguenot heritage; for others, it's a universal tale of love, sacrifice, and resilience.One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection — yours to keep (you'll use your first credit now). I wanted to read it because my 7th great grandfather was a Huguenot and came to America around 1660. Louis XIV’s soldiers will stop at nothing to convert the country’s Huguenot "heretics" to the "true" faith, yet Jeanne and Jacob hold fast to their principals of liberty of conscience. This impacts on the pacing which at times feels heavy and ponderous - across the course of the three books it takes an awfully long time for relatively little to happen.