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The Wrath and The Dawn #01: The Wrath and The Dawn

September 27, 2017 / 00 STARS, RA YA THE WRATH AND THE DAWN

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The Wrath and the Dawn
Renée Ahdieh
Juvenile Fiction
Penguin
2015-05
Audiobook / Hardcover
400

One Life to One Dawn.

In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all.

Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?

WrensReads Review:

I can’t.. finish.. this.

I’m so sad about this too because everyone I talk to loves this book and I’m like… sitting outside the hype awkwardly trying to understand what I just read.

Shahrzad is all “I’m going to kill him for killing my best friend that has the same sounding name as me (Shazi, Shavi, Shazi, Shavi, Shazvi)” and then he like pouts his lip and she goes “oh the beast is a tortured soul of a man!” and then I realized this is purely a weird romance book with an all inclusive love-triangle and I have other things to do.

I might try to pick it up later on in life, but I’m not crossing my fingers.

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Ivory and Bone #01: Ivory and Bone

May 10, 2017 / 00 STARS, JE YA IVORY AND BONE

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Ivory and Bone
Julie Eshbaugh
Young Adult Fiction
HarperTeen
May 9, 2017
Hardcover
400

“Exquisitely written, ferocious, and haunting. Don’t miss this one!” —Sarah J. Maas, New York Times bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series “Julie Eshbaugh is a unique new voice with talent enough for a whole team of writers. I’m still under the spell of her storytelling.”—Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling co-author of Illuminae and These Broken Stars Loosely inspired by Pride and Prejudice, Ivory and Bone is an enthralling tale of high-stakes survival, blinding betrayal, and star-crossed love. Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe—that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless—and nearly grave—mistake. What Kol doesn’t know is that underneath Mya’s cool disdain is a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives. As Kol grows closer to Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question every person he’s trusted. One thing is for sure: this was a war that Mya or Lo—Kol doesn’t know which—had been planning all along. With riveting action and illustrative prose that leaps from the page, Julie Eshbaugh will have readers mesmerized and thirsty for more…So don’t miss the sequel, Obsidian and Stars.

WrensReads Review:

I can’t do this. I hate second person. It makes me feel gross and I just can’t.

I’m not going to rate the book at all purely because I got like 50 pages in and couldn’t anymore. The story is probably fabulous. The writing perspective is just not my cup of tea. Which really stinks because I love pre-historic settings. UGH!

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