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Indlæser... The Wrath and the Dawnaf Renée Ahdieh
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 4.5 Stars. I really enjoyed this story and I am so glad there's more to come. At first I thought this might be a stand alone book and if that were the case I would not be happy about that ending at all but seeing as this is the first in a series I really enjoyed every minute of it. I loved Shahzad's character, even though I have no clue how to pronounce her name. I loved her witty, sarcastic comments with the other characters, especially Despina. I'm not a huge fan of romance novels but I did enjoy this one. At first I didn't get why Shahzad was falling in love with the king, just because he's not as horrible as she first thought and yeah he had a tragic past so you feel sorry for him but that doesn't mean you have to fall in love with him, especially since as she pointed out in one part of the book, she hardly knows him. He keeps her at a distance and won't open up to her. However, as we get closer and closer towards the end we find out more about the king and he finally starts opening up so we see a different side to him and I do like him and Shazi together. I think they fit well and would actually make a really good team. Definitely can't wait to see where the next book takes us. I picked this book up on a whim from my local library and I am so thankful that I did. I read this in two sittings (it would have been one, but unfortunately I had things planned). I will be picking up the second one soon. This novel was inspired by One Thousand and One Nights which is a collection of folktales set in the Middle East. The frame story is about a king who has an unfaithful wife and decides that all women are unfaithful. So he begins taking a new wife each day and then killing them until one begins to tell him stories that mesmerize him. This novel was similar, but instead of the king being cruel and choosing to do this, there is a darker reason behind his actions. This story begins after Shazi chooses to marry the king so that she can kill him to avenge her best friend's death. Things I loved: Shazi, Khalid, the setting and descriptions Things I didn't love: Tariq Going into this novel, I was expecting a decently quick read that I would like, but I absolutely loved this. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:#1 New York Times Bestseller A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi??s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she??s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all. *The book is a Rough Cut Edition (pages are deliberately not the same le No library descriptions found. |
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Content: three *ahem* scenes (two were so little that they went over my head, the other was off-page), death
5 Stars
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When any character other than Snape says “always” it doesn’t mean much.
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