Many are called… She alone can save the world and become Death’s 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 … 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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I absolutely love the prose! She uses words that are entirely appropriate in context but are words I have never encountered. I find that learning new words adds additional adventure to the adventure of the story. The character development is very good. The very best aspect of this book is the amazing plot. She has created a very original plot …
It was one of the best I have ever read in this genre. I have the three book set and will look forward to more from this author.
I really liked this series of books. I am not good at book reports, all I can say is I enjoyed reading this series, The writing made me want to read from book to book till the end.
What a marvelous surprise of a novel to find. The Cobweb Bride brings an ill-mixed company of importunate travelers face-to-face with malfunctioning Death.
Now I am reading The Cobweb Empire, next in the series.
I found this book very enjoyable and am looking forward to reading the next in the series. It was funny, sad and inspirational in equal measures.
Horrible title. Wonderful fantasy story.
Honestly I stopped reading it. I just couldn’t get interested.
A really fabulous start. Lost its way when everyone spent too much time in the forest. Won’t be reading the next ones.
Vera Nazarian builds a world like no other author! Definitely one of my top 3 authors, I have to force myself to save each one of her new releases until a Friday, I can literally NEVER PUT THEM DOWN! The characters have depth and personality and the worlds draw you in and make you feel as though you are there. She builds the type of series you …
***SPOILER ALERT!!*** I have only read the first book and without giving too much away I will say I enjoyed the book. Here is my thought though. This book felt like the story line dragged a little bit. I love the characters and I loved getting to know them along the way but I did feel like a lot of what happened in the book could have happened in …
Somewhat odd writing style.
Exvely done
Long and drawn out with no true story line.
interesting premise, but a little dry, a little slow – would be a great single book. Making it a trilligoy – really? Come on now.
This is one of the most entertaining and original stories I have come across. Unique and engrossing!
I could not even get into this book.
I found that it was a little slow.
Too slow too cruel
I felt the book was a dragged out, an redundant.
It’s interesting, and I’ll probably read the sequel(s). It was a little slow, though, for me… and a piece of it didn’t make sense to me.