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This book is the third in a series. I did not read the first two, and this novel stands alone just fine.

I loved this story. I was sucked into this world within the first few chapters and couldn’t put it down. I loved the character of Louise and her strength and independence. The setting is beautiful and so is the story. I’m looking forward to the next in the series. Hopefully it continues!

This entire series has been such a wo
nderfully epic journey, and The Ghost Ship was an amazing continuation of the story.

With an inheritance from her father, Louise Reydon-Joubert is a woman of means and independence. She is free to do the only thing she's ever wanted to do. Go to sea.
While in La Rochelle, she meets and feels an instant connection to Gilles Barenton. However, Gilles has a long-held secret. The two of them sail away in her ship, The Old Moon, and along the way forge a beautiful relationship.

This was easily my favorite of this series. Louise's bravery and spirit were incomparable. She was a woman ahead of her time.

This book was simply magnificent. I can't wait to read the next installment.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Once again Kate Mosse creates a tale that is timeless, beautiful, and interesting. I have read all of her previous offerings and this was no different. I was transported to a time and place other than here, and clearly was the better for it.
HIGHLY recommend.

The Ghost Ship, the third book in The Joubert Family Chronicles, is a real attention grabber. Set in the 17th century it features the next generation of Joubert's. Minou and Piet Joubert are grandparents and serve as the initial link to the previous book, The City of Tears. But the star of The Ghost Ship is their granddaughter, Louise Reydon-Joubert, a young woman with a traumatic past now in her early twenties. Louise wants nothing more than to captain her own ship, preferably her aunt Cornelia's ship the Old Moon. But women simply don't do such a thing, until a tragic accident causes Louise and a young man named Gilles to flee La Rochelle on the Old Moon. Their journey from fugitives to heroes makes up the bulk of the story. From Paris to Amsterdam, La Rochelle to the Canary Island, Louise, Gilles and the crew of the ghost ship the story is a love story, an adventure epic, and a story of righting wrongs and the strength of the human spirit. Really fascinating, edge of your seat exciting, a really wonderful book and a worthy successor to the previous one!

I really enjoyed the first 2 books in this series and was unfortunately a little underwhelmed by this one.

I think the creative liberties taken with the plot stretched it a little too far outside what I could imagine being possible. That being said, I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for the next book on the series to see how it all ends.

Riveting story if a woman who refuses to be hemmed in by the restrictive standards of her 17th century society. Sharing the story of a female pirate captain it is engaging and exciting, yet also realistic. Full is drama it is historically based which makes it more impactful.

Many thanks to @stmartinspress @netgalley @minotaur_books for making this book#TheGhostShip by @katemossewriter available to me as an e-arc a few months ago. I must confess, I only read the #prologue and was hooked by sentence one. Instead of proceeding, I decided to buy the trilogy and read the #joubertfamilychronicles from the beginning! “Today I am sentenced to swing.” Is the first line. Hell yeah I’m in! So I preordered this and already have the first two books, and those are cool covers as well but this one Omggg takes the cake!!! The gold foil on this cover about to blindddd some folks at the local playground lol!!! Anyhow, this my pre-review : lovers of historical fiction unite around this saga!! I’ll photo the first two in a later post and will tell the gist of the storyline… I’ve never read from this author before but I have been seeing her name for years on #bookstagram and it’s my turn to experience her wonderful stories. Very excited to start this journey sooooon!

Meh. It was just okay. The story was sort of interesting in the beginning, but it took way too long to get to any real conflict.

A ghost ship has plagued the sea for months. This ghost ship has been a pain in the side for pirates. It has also been a saving grace for the enslaved. So, it must be found and the captain contained. But, the captain is not who anyone expects.

Louise is living in the wrong time period. She wants to own her own ship, but in 1600 Holland…you can imagine the hardship this is. But, due to her uncle, Louise does succeed in her dream. Not only that, she succeeds in making the seas a safer place. Something that the powers that be could not do. This lands her in prison and a noose around her neck. But, don’t count her down yet…you need to read this to find out.

I have been a fan of this author since her very first book. And I have read them all. This story, like all her books, is very well researched. There is so much that I learned and enjoyed in this tale.

Need a unique historical fiction…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today!

I received this novel from the publisher for a honest opinion

I really enjoyed this book! I will admit that the beginning was a bit slow for me but I kept on keeping on and it paid off.

This book had adventure on the high sea, secrets, love and two women forging their own path in the 1600's. Well written and well researched!!

This is a sequel to City of Tears and is about two seafarers and the fight for their lives. You can tell Kate Mosse but in time and effort for the research of her historical fiction books. The descriptions and story line rings true to the seventeenth century and the locations depicted. A grand love story that was a pleasure to read. Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing this book in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you Netgalley, author, and the publishers for allowing me the opportunity to read this e-arc.

3.8. Kate Mosse is a very interesting writer of historical fiction particularly of the plight of the Huguenots. I loved Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Sepulchre, The Taxidermist’s Daughter, , and other of her earlier works. This work is part of the Joubert Family chronicles. Ms. Mosse does an excellent job of researching for her novels, and I always learn so much. As in this novel, she provides vivid descriptions of the places, such as Carcassone, Amsterdam, and western France. I found the story interesting but not my favorite, but as in her other novels, she focuses on the strength of women, in this one, Louise Reydon-Joubert, a headstrong woman who ultimately becomes a wily ship captain along the Barbary Coast. A good read.

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears , The Ghost Ship is the third novel in The Joubert Family Chronicles from bestselling author Kate Mosse.

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands.

But the bravest among them are not who they seem. The stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and escape their fate?

A sweeping and epic love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas. Most of all, it is a tale of defiant women in a man's world.

The Ghost Ship is book #3 in the Burning Chambers series, and I have not read the first two novels. I’m quite certain that this is part of the story before this book, that leads to what happens in this one; however, this can absolutely be read as a standalone.

Mosse clearly did her homework and knows how to bring history to life! This was outstanding, well thought out and well researched. I am not a sailor (but my oldest son is, so I used him quite a bit for reference), but I am a history buff, and this story combines both effortlessly. It begins with Louise, the granddaughter of the Reydon-Joubert family as she comes into her inheritance, a large sum which sets her up for her future.

Louise decides to follow her dream of sailing, and after 10 years’ time, she is the “secret” owner of a cargo ship where she’s hosting the farewell dinner party for the retiring captain; wherein she meets Gilles, a wine merchant's apprentice. Louise and Giles begin a relationship, which is modern and refreshing and everything it should be for a female captain in the 1600's looking to change the rules. However, Giles does have some secrets of his own.

This ship is what leads Louise to her destiny and, eventually, her infamous legacy. Her quest to break the rules is heart-pounding and vibrant and taking the journey with Louise ,and following her adventure, is everything you could want in a pirate story.

Kate Mosse is an incredible storyteller who brings historical fiction to life. Thank you to Kate Moss, NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC.

Although The Ghost Ship is the third book in Kate Mosse’s The Burning Chambers series, it can certainly stand on its own as a standalone novel. The series focuses on the war between the French Huegonots and the Catholic Church in both France and Amsterdam in the first few decades of the 17th century. The main character of the book is Louise whom, after receiving a large inheritance on her 25th birthday, purchases a trading ship called The Old Moon. After an accident that results in a death of another, Louise finds herself fleeing prosecution by sailing the high seas with her companion Gilles who has secrets of his own.

Rich with historical facts and full of life, Mosse’s The Ghost Ship is an intriguing look at life at sea and the perils of piracy. The relationship between Louise and Gilles accurately reflects the fact that the LGBTQ+ community have always had to live in the shadows and struggle for the right to love whom they love. The relationship in the story is extremely believable and also beautiful. There is also plenty of action and mystery to keep the reader

Recommended for fans of historical fiction that highlight the minority groups whose stories are often wiped from history.

Huge thank you to Netgalley, Minotaur Books, and Kate Mosse for an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review.

This third book in the trilogy of the Redon-Joubert family chronicles several generations of a Huguenot family fighting to survive religious persecution in the 1600s. Descended from her strong grandmother, Minou, Louise inherits money, owns a ship and aspires to become a female ship captain. Lots of secrets, love, pirates, it’s quite an adventure! I love Kate Mosse’s books!

Kate Mosse is one of those authors who could write the alphabet and I’d gladly read it. She is one of the best builders-of-worlds working today, and her historical research is impeccable. She tends to focus on women’s roles in various historical periods, throwing bright light on the horrible conditions and restrictions women lived under. Mosse’s female protagonists are always those who rise above or go right through the patriarchy and she has outdone her previous characters with Louise.

There’s action, there’s adventure, there’s love all wrapped up in Mosse’s gorgeous prose. This one is a winner for sure!

After reading this book, I am grateful once again for living when and where I do. The heroine of this story, Louise lives in sixteenth century Holland, where women were definitely considered to be at the beck and call of men. Louise has a wish that was considered outlandish at the time, and that is to be captain of her own ship.

Through fate and the bequest of a beloved uncle, Louise acquires her wish, and buys a ship, meets the beguiling Gilles, a wine merchant's apprentice who she takes under her wing as poor Gilles has been sorely mistreated by his mother, and sails off with him to the Barbary Coast where adventure, death, pirates, and love await her.

Louise is a rule breaker and those rules broken could result in her death as the shadow of the Inquisition hangs over all. She is a sixteenth century hero with the modern flair thrown into the story to give it a very different type of story. I have read and enjoyed the previous two books i this, The Burning Chambers series,and once again Kate Mosse has put extensive research into her story.

Thank you to the author, Minotaur Books, and NetGalley for a copy of this long but extensive look into former times and adventure. This story published in early July.

Not often you read a book about a female Capitan of a ship in the 1500s. I found the book to be engrossing, fast-paced and a unique story.

"Today, I am sentenced to swing." Kate Mosse (author) chose to start her latest novel, The Ghost Ship, with this sentence. Louise Reydon-Joubert states that she is innocent of the crime she was accused of. At the beginning of the prologue, Mosse grabbed me and didn’t let go until I had finished the book. Anne Bonny and Mary Read, two famous female pirates from the 18th century, partly inspired The Ghost Ship. They’re among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy at the height of the "Golden Age of Piracy." The Ghost Ship is the third novel in a series that travels via Amsterdam and the Canary Islands from France in the sixteenth century to the Cape of Good Hope in the nineteenth century.
Louise’s greatest desire had always been to captain her own ship. As she grew to be a young woman in the 1600s, she became more aware of how impossible that might be, partly due to her female identity, referred to at that time as unnatural," and partly due to the anti-woman society that put women under the absolute rule of men. Even though her inheritance is substantial as a woman, she still has no power. It’s the texture of everyday life that matters. Kate’s scenery, historical world-building, and character connections—what people thought, wore, and ate and how they lived—are stunning. The texture of everyday life matters as much as dates and "real" history. In her forthcoming novel The Ghost Ship, set partly in La Rochelle and Amsterdam and partly on the High Seas (it’s a pirate novel!). She spent a lot of time researching 17th-century ships, seafaring, and what life on board would be like. The landscape is also essential. Louise is David to the legal system’s Goliath. She fights the impossible fight for justice in a system that seems determined to keep women subjugated to the whims and vicissitudes of the male upper class.
The Ghost Ship’s characters are fictional but inspired by real people: ordinary women and men fighting to love and survive amid religious turmoil and displacement. The author has immersed herself in the period’s history. Her historical world-building is believable. I recommend this book for mature readers interested in piracy on the Barbary Coast, lesbian romance, historical fiction, and women’s fiction. If the topic of lesbian romance offends you, you’ll probably want to choose a different novel. I thank St. Martin’s Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing the ARC for me to review. The opinions included are all mine.