The Rose and the Dagger
by:
Renee Ahdieh (author)
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
I have mixed feelings about this book. Although I totally enjoyed it, I was not hooked. I don’t know if it’s because I was expecting something different, but it was just not as great as the first one. Still, I had a great time reading this and the characters were really amazing. The ending was, I ...
The darker the sky, the brighter the stars. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad is forced from the arms of her beloved husband, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once thought Khalid a monster—a merciless killer of wives, responsible for immeasurable heartache and pain—but as she unraveled his secrets,...
Spoilers possible and I'm going negative here. Audiobook- not recommendedNarration 2.5 starsBook 3.5-the elders & men's voices were so terrible. I wanted to laugh, it took me out of the story. I didn't enjoy this second book nearly as much as the first. I think the narration destroyed the serious ed...
Some good ideas here in terms of plot and storytelling, including feminist high points that should do very well with today's market, and it's great to see such a thorough depiction of the cultural setting, involving characteristic fashion, architecture, food, names etc. but the story and the charact...
This is the second book in The Wrath and the Dawn duology, and the events pick up where the first book left off. I liked this book however I don’t feel like the two books in this duology really went together or maybe just the pacing of the events through the two books was off. Looking back at my r...
7 years ago
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