Review: The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh ❀ A Fantastic Retelling This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ❃ I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all. She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch. 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. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Literary Agency.A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One NightsĮvery dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. With a premise this loaded, though, Ahdieh sets herself a big challenge in the second, concluding volume.
Lushly imagined and powerfully characterized, it’s a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance. Day after day together adds nuance their relationship beyond what either could have imagined as they hesitate in their separate resolves, other plots are set in motion. Shazi marries Khalid and entices him with a cliffhanger story, persuading him to allow her to live one more day to finish the tale as she races to devise his assassination. Shahrzad, 16, decides that she is the one who will stop the murderous caliph, Khalid, by destroying him to avenge the death of her best friend.
What does one make of a man forced to murder dozens of women in order to save a city from a curse-who then stops killing, dooming the city anyway, because he’s fallen in love? It’s a tricky ethical conundrum to build a love story on, and Ahdieh’s debut, a reimagining of the tale of Scheherazade, dances around it.
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