Preferably, I’d want this to be from the perspective of the “dead” character, but a POV from either would be fine. I’d also want this to be more of a plot line rather than a singular scene/dramatic moment that’s quickly moved on from. So I suppose I’m interested in what happens after the reunion (some aspects might include having to process someone coming back after grieving them, catching up, past conflicts reappearing, overprotectiveness, one character isn’t quite the same as they used to be, big bad isn’t defeated yet, etc.). Sorry if it’s too specific, but book scenarios are difficult to look up so I’d love some help.
by GraffitiStripes
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I’d try from the embers, it’s a romance but with a lot of plot twists. It’s a fairly good book and the first part is amazing, you experience POVs from two separate characters and how they grieve
{{The Curse of Chalion}} has this from the perspective of a disappeared person, but the social part only a minor plotline, completely resolved by the middle of the book (at least the social stuff – the consequences of what happened to the character while he was thought dead will be catching with him till the very end). Still past conflicts reappear in a new and worse ways, and the big bad whom he knew back then isn’t defeated.
This happens in the Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb
Fitz actually is physically dead for a short time, but even after he’s resuscitated he has to maintain the pretence of being dead and gone. He spends years under another identity and can only occasionally contact some of the people he knew before