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#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.
- Sales Rank: #6974 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.60" h x 1.12" w x 5.85" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 416 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up—A reimagined tale based on One Thousand and One Nights and The Arabian Nights. In this version, the brave Shahrzad volunteers to marry the Caliph of Khorasan after her best friend is chosen as one of his virgin brides and is summarily murdered the next morning. She uses her storytelling skills, along with well-placed cliff-hangers, to keep herself alive while trying to discover a way to exact revenge on the Caliph. However, the longer she stays in the palace, the more she realizes there's more going on than just a murderous prince. While her feelings for the Caliph grow and change, the first love she left behind is busy plotting to overthrow the entire palace. When the various plotlines come together in a final conflict, the story is brought to a satisfying, if unexpected, ending. A quick moving plot and sassy, believable dialogue make this a compelling and enjoyable mystery, with just the right amount of romance and magic. The main characters are well drawn and surprisingly likable, while secondary characters also develop in endearing ways. The rich, Middle Eastern cultural context adds to the author's adept worldbuilding. Intimacy is dealt with in a straightforward way, without graphic details, and a subtle message of strength is portrayed through the brave independence of the protagonist. VERDICT This well-written mystery will be a surefire hit with teens.—Sunnie Lovelace, Wallingford Public Library, CT
Review
Praise for The Wrath and the Dawn:
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#4 on the Summer 2015 Kids' Indie Next List
An Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2015 – Young Adult
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens for 2015
A Seventeen Magazine Best Book of 2015
A YALSA 2016 Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick
"Renée Ahdieh's lush debut novel, The Wrath and the Dawn, is a suspenseful and beautiful reimagining of The Arabian Nights, with an edge.”—Shelf Awareness, starred review
“Lushly imagined and powerfully characterized, it’s a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance.”—Publishers Weekly
“This book is a fairy tale, a mystery, and … promises to become a classic tale of its own.”—VOYA
“Set against a backdrop of political intrigue and a simmering revolution, this is a carefully constructed narrative of uncertain loyalties, searing romance, and subtle magic in a harsh desert city.”—Booklist, starred review
“The rich, Middle Eastern cultural context adds to the author’s adept world building… a surefire hit with teens.”—School Library Journal, starred review
“Dreamily romantic, deliciously angst-y, addictively thrilling.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Sumptuous detail … satisfyingly steamy scenes, along with some angsty push and pull moments between the two for optimal romantic tension.”—BCCB
“Don’t be surprised if the pages melt away and you find yourself racing through warm, golden sands or drinking spiced wine in cool marble courtyards. This is an intoxicating gem of a story. You will fall in love, just as I did.”—Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of the Legend series and The Young Elites
“In her absorbing debut, Renée Ahdieh spins a tale as mesmerizing as that of her heroine Shahrzad, filled with lush details and brimming with tension. The Wrath and the Dawn is truly an exceptional story, beautifully written.”—Carrie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth
“Ahdieh weaves a world that is lush with detail. You will want to hear, taste, and touch everything. But it's not just the world that is vividly alive. The characters are fascinating too: I loved the friendships, romance, and shifts in feeling. A beautifully written book, The Wrath and the Dawn is a story I could not put down.”—Marie Rutkoski, author of The Winner’s Trilogy
About the Author
Renée Ahdieh is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her spare time, she likes to dance salsa and collect shoes. She is passionate about all kinds of curry, rescue dogs, and college basketball. The first few years of her life were spent in a high-rise in South Korea; consequently, Renée enjoys having her head in the clouds.
She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband and their tiny overlord of a dog. The Wrath and the Dawn is her debut.
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50 of 55 people found the following review helpful.
So. What was it that was DIFFERENT about this book?
By Rhea @ Rhea's Neon Journal
Note to the universe in general: Don’t hate me for not liking this book. Please. I beg you all.
Let’s get one thing clear: I didn’t hate this book. I didn’t love it, but I didn’t particularly hate it either. If we’re talking specifics, lets just say that from the 30% mark to the 70% mark I merely tolerated this book. It wasn’t bad or awful or unbearable or anything of the sort, not at all. It was merely…cold.
The Wrath and The Dawn begins with a nail-biting scene. It’s kind of a risky opening, considering that the reader goes into the story virtually blind and the prologue may give away a little too much right in the beginning, but the author made it work. Somehow.
And thereafter begins the story of Shahrzad, who volunteers to be Caliph Khalid’s bride—Khalid who marries and then kills each of his brides every dawn—in order to avenge the murder of her best friend Shiva at the hands of the boy-king. Little does she know that not everything is as it seems and Khalid is not everything he shows himself to be.
Shahrzad (Shazi) was a force to be reckoned with. With her wit and her sheer charm and her give-it-like-it-is attitude, she manages to leave Khalid with no choice but to keep her alive. But her every breath comes with a price…a price that the King must pay. I loved that Shazi was strong and level-headed and more interesting to me than Khalid ever could be. But in all honesty, apart from these facts, I really didn’t care about her much. She was…cold. There comes that word again. But it’s true. Shazi (like every other character in the book) lacked emotion. Sure her character was smart and self-dependant but to read her inner monologue was, in a word, agonising. It felt like all her emotions—hate, anger, confusion, infatuation, love, everything—ran on one straight line. She felt like a piece of cardboard and for a book that promises to be pretty much the book of the year, it was both amusing and disheartening to see that the MC itself lacked depth and was abundant in lousiness.
Khalid was a character I was really looking forward to, having read all the quotes of the book beforehand and anticipating a sullen, broody, swoony man. Instead, what I got was a boy who was angry at everyone and everything and then Shazi changed his mind by just being herself and wow I’ve read this in a million books before. In the aspect of Shazi managing to bring Khalid out of his “shell,” it’s the clichéd stuff, you guys. Speaking of shells, HOLY HOLY RHEA HE KILLS THE GIRLS OF THE KINGDOM EVERY MORNING AND THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM BEING A SOCIAL PARIAH GEEZUS WOMAN. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was about Shazi that drew him to her—I certainly could see that she was smart, but really, Khalid was suspicious of her right until he fell in love with her. And then of course, it didn’t matter at all that she had come to kill him.
Again, the romance was just…sad. And I’m not talking star-crossed sad. I’m talking Oh-dear-Lord-they’re-so-fake-please-God-stop-this sad. A lot of readers, however, have loved the Khalid-Shazi love story and while it wasn’t for me all all, I can understand the appeal. Because there’s this:
“Love is—a shade of what I feel.”
And this:
“I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.”
And my personal favourite:
“What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered.
“If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.” The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest.
“No.” His hands dropped to her waist. “Destroy me.”
OMG RHEA SO WHAT WENT WRONG?
Honestly? Everything. Like I mentioned before, I read many quotes of the book before I started to read the book, and they were so, so swoony. But when they actually became a part of the book, when I was in the moment with Khalid and Shazi and their unfortunate little love, the same swoony quotes came out sounding bland and meaningless and forced and all wrong. While I really don’t mind third-person POV, it seemed to me like even that worked against this book. It made me feel detached from not only the characters themselves, but from the narrative and the setting and just everything about the setting.
As for the writing? Renée Ahdieh’s writing reminded me a lot of Lauren Oliver’s writing, in which it was over-discriptive about irrelevant things and had analogies and similies that flew right above my head. Maybe I’m not the right type of reader for her writing (is that a thing?) but I’m still debating about the merits of reading the next book of the series. Apparently, the series is a duology and I suppose I could take my chances on reading just one more book. And if I’m being completely honest, the sneak peek into The Rose and The Dagger did entice me a bit. But as for The Wrath and The Dawn? Complete, epic fail.
Rhea @ Rhea's Neon Journal
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Loved everything about the book but the book itself.
By The reader
God I wanted to love this book. Wanted to love, love, love this book. Non-western setting, retelling of a great classic, so much potential for a great main character, for an awesome setting we don't get to see often, for intense and authentic conflict and tension and I was ALL OVER IT.
The setting stuff played out for the most part. That was good. However:
Prologue: Gave away the big revel. RIGHT THERE. Explained why the Big Bad was doing Big Bad Things. And it wasn't Just Because, but because of this Other Big Bad Thing. So, right away exonerates the bad guy, you know he's not really a bad guy after all, and that he will make the perfect love interest to be Saved and Redeemed. Not, you know, the one that you believe is really bad all along and that belief will drive the conflict and heighten the emotional stakes and keep you on the edge of your seat as the main character fights both the Big Bad Things he's doing and a growing attraction to him.
THANKS A LOT FOR RUINING IT BEFORE CHAPTER ONE!
So, chapters start. I can see why, for pacing and tension, there needed to be an early and then frequent changes of POV characters, but it made it hard to get to know or connect with any one character. Though this could have been a good thing since it therefore took longer for me to start to hate them all.
Every POV character but the main character felt completely unnecessary and ridiculous. There's this big melodramatic (and I REALLY mean melodramatic) tangle of people trying to "rescue" the main character from a situation she voluntarily entered with the understanding that she had a job to do here and maybe they should have thought about that instead of just trying to go get her back which could undermine everything she was trying to accomplish and possibly put her in even more danger. But then:
She didn't seem to be in any real danger after a day or so. There was a completely unconvincing and throwaway attempt to make it seem as if she was, but other than that, all "danger" was us being told she was in danger when everything that was actually happening completely contradicted that. Thus, all the ongoing rescue attempt stuff felt even more ridiculous, especially since no one made any attempt to try to contact her or find out if she really did need rescuing.
Insta-love. "Love triangle" that was pure melodrama and served only to drive the unnecessary and annoying rescue attempt.
The characters began to feel interchangeable. Even the main characters.
No attempt was made that I could see to make the characters actions, choices, attitudes, or behavior fit the purported time and place. Not even to acknowledge that it was unusual for the time and place. Modern mores and reactions plopped into a non-modern setting.
To be honest, I quit skimming after 55% or so just so I would be able to review the book without explosive and virulent cursing. Since it's a reboot, and there will be a sequel, I know enough of how it's has to end that I can safely not care and move on with my life.
26 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
A compelling YA retelling of 1001 Nights
By schmettajames
I'm a big fan of fairytale retellings, and I'm always looking for ones that are outside the usual western European stories. The Wrath and the Dawn is a retelling of 1001 Nights (sometimes called the Arabian Nights), a collection of traditional Arabic folk tales with a framing story about a murderous king who kills his new wives at dawn every morning.
In this version, 18-year-old Khalid is the Caliph (or King) of Khorasan. Every day, he takes a new bride, who is then murdered the following morning. After her best friend is killed, a young woman named Shahrzad volunteers to become the Caliph's next bride. She want revenge, but to get it, she'll have to make it past the first night. She tells him a story and he's intrigued enough to keep her alive for another day. And thus begins an elaborate power struggle between the spouses, as Shahrzad begins to see that her husband is perhaps not the monster she assumes him to be.
I really enjoyed The Wrath and the Dawn. Shahrzad is an awesome heroine. Even with her need for revenge, she's smart enough to take the long view and she finds ways to keep Khalid fascinated enough to spare her life each day. Khalid is an interesting character. A guy who kills a wife a day isn't exactly appealing, but the author makes him compelling. It's clear from the beginning that Khalid isn't a just a psychopath and that there's something more going on, but Shahrzad will have to break down a lot of barriers to get to the truth. Their game of cat and mouse is fascinating to read about, and I had moments of dread when Shahrzad was pushing at Khalid, wondering what might make him snap. And as she's plotting her revenge, she finds herself developing unexpected feelings for her husband. It's a tense, absorbing read.
I did have some small issues with the writing. There were times when the descriptions felt a bit overdone. For example, every time characters are eating, we're given a detailed description of the food, which felt unnecessary after the first couple of times. And the reader is constantly reminded of the eye colors of the two main characters (hazel for Shahrzad and amber for Khalid). Eye color seems to be mentioned every few pages, and I found it annoying. But these are minor quibbles, and I'm sure many readers won't be bothered by them. Also, I expected there to be more stories within the main story, given the source material, but there are only a few.
I highly recommend The Wrath and the Dawn, and I'll be back for the sequel next year.
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