The Wrath and the Dawn
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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