![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Literary Agency. ![]() With a premise this loaded, though, Ahdieh sets herself a big challenge in the second, concluding volume. Sign in / Join English Help Albanian Basque. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Lushly imagined and powerfully characterized, it’s a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance. All about The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh. For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night. Day after day together adds nuance their relationship beyond what either could have imagined as they hesitate in their separate resolves, other plots are set in motion. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. ![]() Shazi marries Khalid and entices him with a cliffhanger story, persuading him to allow her to live one more day to finish the tale as she races to devise his assassination. Shahrzad, 16, decides that she is the one who will stop the murderous caliph, Khalid, by destroying him to avenge the death of her best friend. What does one make of a man forced to murder dozens of women in order to save a city from a curse-who then stops killing, dooming the city anyway, because he’s fallen in love? It’s a tricky ethical conundrum to build a love story on, and Ahdieh’s debut, a reimagining of the tale of Scheherazade, dances around it. ![]()
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