An astoundingly beautiful retelling of A Thousand and One Nights. In The Wrath & the Dawn, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran volunteers to marry the famously cruel boy-king, Khalid. Khalid is known for taking a new bride every day, only for the bride to be murdered at dawn. Shahrzad is no fool; she knows all this, yet she is determined to avenge her best friend, Shiva, who was one of Khalid's murdered brides. But while Khalid initially seemed like a monster, Shahrzad begins to discover the reasons behind his actions...and begins to fall in love with him. From the eloquent narration to mouthwatering food description, not to mention the fabulous characters, this is truly a breathtaking novel. I stayed up late at night just to read this, continuously telling myself to just read one more page, only to blow through several chapters at once. This will not disappoint.
The Wrath & the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn)
By Renée Ahdieh
Book 1 of 2 in the
The Wrath and the Dawn Series
#1 New York Times Bestseller
A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights
Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.
She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights
Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.
She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
Publisher: Speak
ISBN-13: 9780147513854
ISBN-10: 0147513855
Published on 4/5/2016
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 432