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A review by adeselnaferreira
Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian
4.0
**ARC provided by Netgalley
Third time is the charm.
I've started to read this book two times before, unable to finish it. But upon my trip to the US, I thought: hey why not give it a third chance? I'm older now maybe this book will be great! People, give books another chance because this... was great!
Death has come to a halt - nobody dies until Death has found his Cobweb bride. This is where we start this amazing journey following three POVs: Percy's plot, Princess Claere, and the Black Knight Beltain.
By far, my personal favorite has to be Princess Claere's plotline. I know, maybe controversial? First, the descriptions related to her are just *chef's kiss, you can visualize everything and feel her cold body. It has been a while since I could visualize everything in a book, but Vera Nazarian just picks the right words to convey what we need to see. Second, she is introduced as a sickly character without much strength, but from the beginning, we see that that treatment is unfair #JusticeForMyGirl. She is the embodiment of regal, smooth, and not as weak as people portray her.
Percy's storyline was good, especially towards the end. This is perhaps the only "critique" that I have is that maybe the beginning is a little slow, but then the end is just being devoured because we need to know who is the cobweb bride! And personally, now I don't mind slow beginnings. As long as soon as the plot hits, the pacing also increases and it becomes a steady speed, I'm fine with slow beginnings. Perhaps that was what caused me to give up almost a decade ago, but look at me now... much older!
This is one of those novels I could see being translated into Portuguese because it is very different from what we have now being published and it even has something similar to our Nobel prize - Death with Interruptions but in a fantasy setting with gorgeous descriptions and a solid plot.
Looking forward to read the second and third novel of this series.
Third time is the charm.
I've started to read this book two times before, unable to finish it. But upon my trip to the US, I thought: hey why not give it a third chance? I'm older now maybe this book will be great! People, give books another chance because this... was great!
Death has come to a halt - nobody dies until Death has found his Cobweb bride. This is where we start this amazing journey following three POVs: Percy's plot, Princess Claere, and the Black Knight Beltain.
By far, my personal favorite has to be Princess Claere's plotline. I know, maybe controversial? First, the descriptions related to her are just *chef's kiss, you can visualize everything and feel her cold body. It has been a while since I could visualize everything in a book, but Vera Nazarian just picks the right words to convey what we need to see. Second, she is introduced as a sickly character without much strength, but from the beginning, we see that that treatment is unfair #JusticeForMyGirl. She is the embodiment of regal, smooth, and not as weak as people portray her.
Percy's storyline was good, especially towards the end. This is perhaps the only "critique" that I have is that maybe the beginning is a little slow, but then the end is just being devoured because we need to know who is the cobweb bride! And personally, now I don't mind slow beginnings. As long as soon as the plot hits, the pacing also increases and it becomes a steady speed, I'm fine with slow beginnings. Perhaps that was what caused me to give up almost a decade ago, but look at me now... much older!
This is one of those novels I could see being translated into Portuguese because it is very different from what we have now being published and it even has something similar to our Nobel prize - Death with Interruptions but in a fantasy setting with gorgeous descriptions and a solid plot.
Looking forward to read the second and third novel of this series.