libkatem 's review for:

The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights by Cameron Dokey

3.0

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Perhaps slightly simplistic, but it gets the point across. Words are quite often (historically, mythologically, and fictionally) are often the only weapons or tools a woman has. No clearer is this than in the tales of Shahrazad. She of course has a thousand and one stories to keep herself and many other women (a thousand, probably) safe from the wrath of a wronged king.

Dokey does an admirable job of giving a new voice to Shahrazed, and this book is well worth the little time it takes to read it.