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Article Title

The Wrath & the Dawn

Authors

Abigail Packard

Keywords

Excellent, Young Adult, Renee Ahdieh, Romance, Magic, Arabian Nights Retelling, Deserts***********************************************************************************************************************************

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

Shahrzad is going to kill her husband, the king of Rey, to avenge the death of her best friend. At least that’s her plan when she agrees to marry Khalid, the rumored monster king that kills each of the wives he takes at dawn the day following their wedding. Shahrzad awaits for her husband the night after they are married and when he comes to her she begins telling him a story. When dawn arrives, she has yet to finish the story and refuses to finish it until the following night. Khalid, intrigued, agrees to let her live in order to hear the ending the next night. In the meantime, Tariq, Shahrzad’s childhood sweetheart, is set upon rescuing Shahrzad. He enlists his uncle in his plans to rescue Shahrza. As Shahrzad and Khalid spend more time together, Shahrzad realizes that she has growing feelings for this enigma of a boy king. After an attempt is made on Shahrzad’s life by a hired mercenary, Khalid divulges his secret to Shahrzad: when his first wife killed herself, the girl’s father cursed Khalid. He has to kill one hundred wives at dawn or else he will lose the kingdom. Upon unlocking dark magic and joining Tariq’s cause, Shahrzad’s father creates a terrible storm as a distraction for Tariq to steal Shahrzad away, but the storm becomes too intense and the city begins to burn. Shahrzad accompanies Tariq out of the city with the thought to help him understand that she needs to stay with Khalid.

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