A review by rosekk
The City of Tears by Kate Mosse

4.0

In the first book, Minou was the one with a hidden past, whose unknown parentage made her an heir to wealth and privilege. This time, it's her husbands turn. By some strange coincidence the villain that pursued her family through the last book have a whole new set of reasons to clash with our protagonists. The hand of the author is far to obvious in the plot; there's a narrative neatness that makes suspension of disbelief hard. Somehow, our heroes manage to be party to multiple major events. Being in the epicentre of one episode of civil unrest is unfortunate. Being at the epicentre of three looks like the hand of the author.

While the degree of coincidence in the plot got annoying at times, I was generally able to overlook it. What I liked best in the first book was how the historical setting came to life, and the same is true in this one. Because the moment-to-moment feel of the story was so easy to believe, it made the plot easier to swallow as well.