For understanding why her best friend had to die. She then spends the whole day fretting she hurt his feeeeelings and apologizes. There's a scene where she directly confronts Khalid on why he kills his wives and he leaves because she has the subtlety of a hippo in a tutu. Her attempts at sniffing out Khalid's weaknesses are poorly thought-out and completely disappear after she falls in insta-love with sunlight-scented Hay Boy. But it'd be nice if she actually carried through with her plan. The book tries so hard to convince readers Shahrzad is Katniss by making her a master archer and spout promises for vengeance. There was so much more below the surface, and she had to know what lay at the root of it all.'

'It's because he's not the monster I thought he was. Where's the fire? Where's the hate? Where's her brain? Shahrzad marries him to get revenge for her best friend and within three days, she's putty in his hands. Every day, the Caliph of Khorasan marries a new bride and by dawn, he has her killed. The Wrath and the Dawn is a retelling of the classical One Thousand and One Nights tale. Shahrzad: I will kill Caliph Khalid to avenge my best friend! After he killed so many young girls, without explanation.Ī three-sentence summary of The Wrath and the Dawn: 'How can I desire him? After he killed Shiva. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets? 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. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart.

But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family.

The wrath and the dawn by renée ahdieh