Tuesday 16 June 2015

The Wrath & The Dawn

The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)

Debut author Renee Ahdieh's The Wrath & The Dawn is the first book of the series of the same name.

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in the 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 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.

The Breakdown:
1. I am in love with this book.  Ahdieh does an amazing job using the inspiration of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.  The story is beautifully written, and she does a wonderful job of building the world from the palace to the nomadic desert tribes.  The story is engaging from beginning to end with wonderful characters, lots of mystery and intrigue and a little bit of magic.

2. I absolutely adored the characters of Shahrzad and Khalid.  Shahrzad is a vibrant and intelligent girl, whose love for her friend drives to try the impossible.  She goes through so much in the book emotionally and personally, and learns that she is not only one who has lost so much.  Khalid is an enigma of character that has experienced so much loss in his young life, and the curse that is further tearing him apart.  I truly enjoyed reading as Shazi and Khalid's relationship progressed through the book.

3. Ahdieh not only spins the tale of Shazi and Khalid and the reason for the dawn deaths and Khalid's curse, but there other subplots to keep the story from growing stagnant.  From the rebellion brewing because the people do not understand Khalid's actions to the hostilities with the neighboring Sultan.  I cannot wait to see how will proceed in the next book.

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