Book: Cobweb Bride

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Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy #1)
Vera Nazarian
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Many are called... She alone can save the world and become Death's bride.
Chivalry and true love transform the myth of Persephone, set in an alternate Renaissance, from a Nebula Award Finalist author.

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.


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Ah... a trilogy! So... upon finishing the first book... it’s not the end yet! Let’s hope the second and third are as interesting!

I liked the premises of the book: Death goes on strike so no one can die, no matter the injury, the sickness, the incident, even decapitation... Food won’t even cook! And Death requires his Cobweb Bride for him to get back to work. I put this in a bit of a humorous way but it really not. So the setup is interesting enough. There are about 3 or 4 storylines/character lines in the beginning so it was a little confusing and hard to keep up, but eventually these storylines merged together.

But the book ended in such a cliffhanger-ish not-really-cliffhanger way that, there is no other way but the read the second book. Hm... I suppose.... I would do just that (ignoring the 600-something existing other unread books I have).

Overall well written. I caught a couple typos, such as the Infanta’s name, she’s Claere, but I caught 2 or 3 places where it got mistyped as Clare. Oh, and there’s a slight annoyance that I’ve always known Percy as a male name, but here it’s a girl’s name, short for Persephone, so it took a bit of time for my mind to get used to it.

Comments

[kurikuribebi]

Ooh, that sounds interesting! I've jotted the name for when I finish my reread of Crazy Rich Asians trilogy.

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

Haha I thought I was the only one who caught typos in books!