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A review by raisingself
The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
5.0
The book is magic. It's riveting. It's captivating. It's poetic. It's passionate.
Summary
Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, the boy king, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat by dawn. Khalid messes around and kills the wrong girl, the best friend of sixteen-year-old Shahrzad. And, this fearless badass of a sixteen- year-old, vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride but Shahrzad does not plan on being his next victim. Not only does she stay alive, but passionate prose unfolds as she falls for a king and finds that he isn't the monster that she imagined and must uncover his secrets to save both of their lives.
First reaction
I'm shook and I'm in love with this damb book. Who is Renee Ahdieh and where has she been all my literary life. I love her.
Why it's epic
Poetic: This book reads like a poem, like a subtle historic tale that I somehow overlooked. You could swim in its prose. It captivates while soothing your mind. I'm here for everything that Ms. Ahdieh writes if it flows as flawlessly as the Wrath and the Dawn.
Hotter than 50 Shades of Gray: I've never read 50 Shade of Gray, a friend live tweeted her reading of it and if confirmed that the book was not for me, but I ran to a pretty well known book blogger and her first comment was, "the book is kind of hot, hotter than 50 shades of Gray!" Not in a caveman pornographic, thrusting kind of way but it captures passion, love felt in your heart, mind and finger tips. What is to kiss a boy you are slowly falling in love with. Hold the hands of a girl you you've loved most of your life. The smell of someone you want to be with in every way possible. There is intensity in the way the narrator describes the eyes or the smile or the scent of the one they are nursing a growing infatuation for. It's PG-13 while being rated R, if you know what it is to fall in love with your heart and mind first.
A++ for complexity: This world that Ms. Ahdieh created is filled with complex major, minor and fringe characters. She made a silent bodyguard intriguing and interesting. I've read many novels where the writer failed to build a strong major character (even in the sequels), this story gave me so many well developed characters, I was invested in nearly all of them with equal fervor. I shipped the nearly everyone with a back story.
My recommendation: Read it if you love well written YA and sci-fi that isn't afraid to wax poetic in all the right moments.
I've already downloaded book 2 to read.
Summary
Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, the boy king, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat by dawn. Khalid messes around and kills the wrong girl, the best friend of sixteen-year-old Shahrzad. And, this fearless badass of a sixteen- year-old, vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride but Shahrzad does not plan on being his next victim. Not only does she stay alive, but passionate prose unfolds as she falls for a king and finds that he isn't the monster that she imagined and must uncover his secrets to save both of their lives.
First reaction
I'm shook and I'm in love with this damb book. Who is Renee Ahdieh and where has she been all my literary life. I love her.
Why it's epic
Poetic: This book reads like a poem, like a subtle historic tale that I somehow overlooked. You could swim in its prose. It captivates while soothing your mind. I'm here for everything that Ms. Ahdieh writes if it flows as flawlessly as the Wrath and the Dawn.
Hotter than 50 Shades of Gray: I've never read 50 Shade of Gray, a friend live tweeted her reading of it and if confirmed that the book was not for me, but I ran to a pretty well known book blogger and her first comment was, "the book is kind of hot, hotter than 50 shades of Gray!" Not in a caveman pornographic, thrusting kind of way but it captures passion, love felt in your heart, mind and finger tips. What is to kiss a boy you are slowly falling in love with. Hold the hands of a girl you you've loved most of your life. The smell of someone you want to be with in every way possible. There is intensity in the way the narrator describes the eyes or the smile or the scent of the one they are nursing a growing infatuation for. It's PG-13 while being rated R, if you know what it is to fall in love with your heart and mind first.
A++ for complexity: This world that Ms. Ahdieh created is filled with complex major, minor and fringe characters. She made a silent bodyguard intriguing and interesting. I've read many novels where the writer failed to build a strong major character (even in the sequels), this story gave me so many well developed characters, I was invested in nearly all of them with equal fervor. I shipped the nearly everyone with a back story.
My recommendation: Read it if you love well written YA and sci-fi that isn't afraid to wax poetic in all the right moments.
I've already downloaded book 2 to read.