In 'Cobweb Bride' by Vera Nazarian, Death stops collecting souls until his Cobweb Bride is found, leading to a kingdom where no one dies and the repercussions are dire. The plot unfolds through the perspectives of various characters, including Persephone, a character who grows in confidence and wit throughout the book. The writing style incorporates rich world-building, unique storytelling, and a refreshing take on Death mythology, keeping readers engaged with its intricate plot twists and detailed character development.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
Content warnings include themes of death, violence, and potentially traumatic scenarios such as murder and parental rejection.
Has Romance?
While there are romantic elements throughout the book, they are not the primary focus.
From The Publisher:
Many are called... She alone can save the world and become Death's bride.
COBWEB BRIDE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One) is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death's ultimatum to the world.
What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?
In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary "pocket" of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill....
Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness... Her skin is cold as snow... Her eyes, frozen... Her gaze, fiercely alive...
While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war... A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father... Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court.... Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living...
Look closer - through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars...
And one small village girl, Percy - an unwanted, ungainly middle daughter - is faced with the responsibility of granting her dying grandmother the desperate release she needs.
As a result, Percy joins the crowds of other young women of the land in a desperate quest to Death's own mysterious holding in the deepest forests of the North...
And everyone is trying to stop her.
"... Nazarian writes clean and true prose ..." - Publishers Weekly
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