The Wrath and the Dawn (Hardcover)

from GennaC

"'Make them remember you. Make sure they never forget. You are the Calipha of Khorasan, and you have the ear of a king.'...'And, most important, you are a fearsome thing to behold in your own right.'" So much ugly crying. A sumptuous fairy tale of subterfuge and painful, impossible love. Renee A...

from pennma05

I was drawn to this book first off by the cover. It is beautiful! And when I read the jacket cover, I knew I would love this book. I am now dying to read the original story it is inspired by. Almost from the beginning I really loved the main character, Shahrzad. I did struggle a bit with the name...

from CatherineHsu

Actual Rating: 5.0 Oh my god. Oh. My. God. I am really not okay. Are you satisfied? Are you? I'm not. Why? Because I have to wait another month for The Rose & the Dagger. I can't do it, okay? I need it right now . Okay, okay okay. Now for the actual review. The Wrath and the Dawn follows the stor...

from nbmars

This is Book One of a re-imagining of One Thousand and One Nights (also called The Arabian Nights), a collection of stories compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age, tied together by a very clever narrative conceit involving the ruler Shahryār. In The Arabian Nights, Shahryār discovers th...

from Jessika.C

Good god this is such a good story. I don't even know where to begin. The drama, the tears, the wit, the cunningness of our main hero Shahrzad; I don't what what I love more. I can tell you that I didn't love the love, the unfleshed reasoning behind her 'volunteering as tribute', the vague insinu...