A review by annieeditor
Stranger at the Wedding by Barbara Hambly
2.0
The first two-thirds of this book are fairly typical for a fantasy novel: a woman with magic returns to the home she has been exiled from to save her sister from an ambiguous doom on her wedding day. Kyra goes through all of the rituals and motions of magic, while trying to hide from a community where it is outlawed. She has a chance to think about what her life would have been like if she had chosen her family over magic, and she finds herself falling in love with her sister's intended groom.
It's not too bad, but it was a little hard to latch onto the characters. It's not until about two-thirds of the book when the horrible truth behind Kyra's exile is revealed, and suddenly everybody's motivations become a lot more clear, complex and interesting.
It's not too bad, but it was a little hard to latch onto the characters. It's not until about two-thirds of the book when the horrible truth behind Kyra's exile is revealed, and suddenly everybody's motivations become a lot more clear, complex and interesting.