.... and I'm out. This is insufferable. Granted, I'm not the target audience to begin with. But it's not even the concept of "1001 Nights as a YA love story" that is putting me off the most, even though that does have at least something to do with it. Shahrazād, in the original version, uses a...
.... and I'm out. This is insufferable. Granted, I'm not the target audience to begin with. But it's not even the concept of "1001 Nights as a YA love story" that is putting me off the most, even though that does have at least something to do with it. Shahrazād, in the original version, uses a...
4.5 stars Oh my, my, my, I am breathless ! What a glorious twist of One Thousand and One Nights. The vivid detailing in this story was so richly done I think I gained 5 pounds on description of foods alone. The clothing, the town, the palace, the horses, the landscape, each given such beauty in this...
One Life to One Dawn. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad...
There were a ton of things I loved about this story, and I'm sure I'll miss some in this review, so sorry in advance! It's been billed as a Mulan retelling, which I think is a huge stretch, as the only similarities are girl crossdressing/masquerading as a boy, a bit of learning to fight, East Asian ...
Full disclaimer I bought this on a whim because I thought the cover was pretty. I honestly didn't know much about it, but I had seen it a lot online. This was a couple of years ago so when I decided to pick it up the other day I went in remembering really nothing about it. I was pleasantly surprised...
By: Renee Ahdieh Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Series: (The Wrath and the Dawn #1) Publication Date: May 12th 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 388 One Life to One Dawn. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, ...
Book Riot Read Harder Challenge Item: A book set in the Middle East This is a first novel, and it feels like one. The prose is overwritten and tends toward the purple, and it resorts to using the same descriptions far too often. Like, we don't need to know that Jalid has "tiger eyes" each time he ...
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