Recent Reads – Summer 2023
July and August saw the delivery of a number of books pre-ordered earlier in the year. Here’s what I have read over the summer.
The Ghost Ship
The Ghost Ship is the third in The Joubert Family Chronicles which began with The Burning Chambers and followed by The City of Tears. The series spans place and time, beginning during the sixteenth century Wars of Religion and travelling from the Languedoc region of Southern France to Amsterdam, Paris, The Canary Islands and South Africa over the century that follows.
This is a fascinating and gripping series focusing on the plight of the Huguenots who were persecuted by Catholic France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and forced to flee to countries elsewhere in Europe, North America and notably, South Africa.
The Pomegranate Gate
The is the first book in The Mirror Realm Cycle series. Rooted in Jewish folklore, The Pomegranate Gate blends history, myth and magic. Revolving around two main characters who each discover in different ways that they are linked to the old world of magic – a world that connected to the new world via a gate that appears in a pomegranate grove each full moon.
Light Bringer
The Red Rising Saga is set in a future where planets have been colonised as Earth is no longer liveable for humans. New societies have developed along a colour-coded caste system, with Reds being the lowly mining caste and Golds ruling over all. This sixth installment continues the story and legacy of Darrow and his fight for a new age.
