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A review by skycrane
The Mystic Marriage by Heather Rose Jones
5.0
I literally could not put this book down. I started it as soon as I finished the first one and read straight through till the end. My only complaint about Daughter of Mystery was that there wasn't enough of it, that it'd be nice to see more scenes developing some of the side characters. So I was delighted when The Mystic Marriage delivered on that.
There's a particular scene in this book, which is just lovely. Very dramatic and powerful: "This is my heart: it is what you see. I don’t know if it will come through the fire. But it’s yours, if you will have it." In general, I like how The Mystic Marriage has a different view of love, or tackles a different kind of love, than the first book. In Daughter of Mystery the love between Barbara and Margerit is miraculous. They were connected before their births, and divine providence saw them reunited as young women. In this book, love is something the characters work at, a project built slowly layer after layer, with setbacks and false starts that can only be overcome through patience and effort. I appreciate how the author ties the romance into the larger themes of the story.
There's a particular scene in this book, which is just lovely. Very dramatic and powerful: "This is my heart: it is what you see. I don’t know if it will come through the fire. But it’s yours, if you will have it." In general, I like how The Mystic Marriage has a different view of love, or tackles a different kind of love, than the first book. In Daughter of Mystery the love between Barbara and Margerit is miraculous. They were connected before their births, and divine providence saw them reunited as young women. In this book, love is something the characters work at, a project built slowly layer after layer, with setbacks and false starts that can only be overcome through patience and effort. I appreciate how the author ties the romance into the larger themes of the story.