A Thousand Nights
"Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife." When Lo-Melkhiin - a formidable king - arrives at her desert home, she knows that he will take her beautiful sister for a wife. Desperate to save her sister from certain death, she makes the ultimate...
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"Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife." When Lo-Melkhiin - a formidable king - arrives at her desert home, she knows that he will take her beautiful sister for a wife. Desperate to save her sister from certain death, she makes the ultimate sacrifice - leaving home and family behind to live with a fearful man. But it seems
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B014CQGBZU
Publisher: MacMillan Children's Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Beautifully written, with language grounded in the historic-fantasy desert setting and delicate, almost fairytale-esque storytelling. Which unfortunately does make for a more distant reading experience than I think most current YA readers are accustomed to. Detached, mythic tone, with some commentar...
A Thousand Nights -- E.K. Johnston *Retelling based on the frame story of One Thousand and One Nights Beautifully written retelling of One Thousand and One Nights using the frame story of Scheherazade only. This particular retelling seems to be popular at present... or rather, the Arabian-based ...
A Thousand Nights is a loose-ish retelling of the Scheherazade story. It’s E.K. Johnston’s third book, and it’s firmly cemented her as a go-to author for me. I got the ARC for this one just before the Cybils started, so I set it aside until now. And while I’m sorry I had to wait this long, I’m happy...
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village looking for a wife. She that he chose of us would be a hero. She would give the others life. Lo-Melkhiin would not return to the same village until he had married a girl from every camp, from every town, and from each district insid...
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village looking for a wife.She that he chose of us would be a hero. She would give the others life. Lo-Melkhiin would not return to the same village until he had married a girl from every camp, from every town, and from each district inside...
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