The Cobra Queen
You don’t know the New York fashion world, until you know its haunts…
In the months since Pandora English left the small town of Gretchenville to live with her mysterious great aunt in a supernatural Manhattan suburb, her whole world has been turned upside down.
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You don’t know the New York fashion world, until you know its haunts…
In the months since Pandora English left the small town of Gretchenville to live with her mysterious great aunt in a supernatural Manhattan suburb, her whole world has been turned upside down.
Pandora has discovered she is the chosen one, the Seventh Daughter of a Seventh Daughter, and during the impending Revolution of the Dead, she alone will have the power to save all life as we know it. The Agitation is unfolding, building towards the Revolution, and Pandora can no longer deny the truth in these incredible prophecies. But what will she do when the moment comes? How can she stand against the army of the dead?
Pandora’s relationship to her spirit guide, Lieutenant Luke, is intensifying. She’s had to grapple with ghosts, vampires and necromancers. Now, with the Blue Moon approaching and a new exhibition opening at The Met, which celebrates an ancient female pharaoh done wrong in antiquity, powerful forces threaten to upend the balance of life and death. Pandora is given the chance to find out what happened to her parents all those years ago, but first she must put her own supernatural gifts to the test.
From the best-selling author of The Blood Countess, The Spider Goddess and The Skeleton Key.
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Domain Review
Moss riffs on a paranormal world where female empowerment is at the core of her storytelling; where Gothic horror and fetishism flirt with spirit guides as much as the series haunts the well-heeled fashion scene of NYC….Moss pays homages to genres she loves, taking urban fantasy and fusing it with horror. The Cobra Queen follows Pandora English, who lives in a Manhattan supernatural suburb and discovers she is the Chosen One, the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter – and circumstances get eerily strange.
Out In Perth, Bibliophile
The plot thickens with seething supernatural possibilities, but the journey is all about Pandora discovering her powers and evolving from the small-town girl who was lacking in self-belief. Like Twilight, it is about love, family, crossing species boundaries and the heroine expanding her mind and discovering her powers.
Booklover Reviews
The Cobra Queen, Tara Moss’ fourth Pandora English novel, is a fabulously fun supernatural new adult romance oozing female empowerment and open-mindedness…a highly entertaining and emotionally satisfying escape from the real world. Sign me up for the next one!
Queensland Reviewers Collective
[A] charming para-normal story…Pandora is an engaging character – polite, courteous, grieving for her parents who died eight years ago…She is likeable and unassuming – but beginning to understand the importance of her role in the protection of the living world.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tara Moss’ Pandora English series is like a cross between Charmed and The Devil Wears Prada and is a fun idea for a super-camp genre-mashup. In The Cobra Queen, Pandora has long since discovered she has witchy powers and a unique destiny – one that quite possibly involves saving the world from an army of the dead. She’s not entirely unready. Pandora has received some tutelage from her eccentric Aunt Celia, and she’s even pursued romance with a dishy dead dude. Meanwhile, supernatural evil keeps rising among New York’s elite: a new exhibition at the Met, featuring the mummified remains of a female pharaoh, proves the latest threat…it’s the frivolous blend of fashion and fangs, catwalks and cantrips that fans have come to enjoy.