The Wrath and the Dawn

By: Renée Ahdieh

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

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 reader ruined the book.

Good take on a classic story. A bit heavy handed with the SAT vocabulary. But mostly, the narrator is terrible! She sounds like a 6th grader learning to read out loud dramatically.

Very good

I was hoping it would be a one and done but looks like it will be a series. If the rest of the series is as good as the first book it will be a good one. I plan on replaying the book as the names are hard to follow at times .

Beautiful story...

I would definitely recommend this book to those whose hearts long for a beautiful love story full of wonder and desire. The story was beautifully written and the performance was somewhat well done. I think there could have been more verity to the voices and more passion in the tone at some points of the story to give it more meaning, but overall a beautiful story worthy of a motion picture and a thousand fans, but most of all the recognition it deserves.

Narration could have been better

It was difficult at points to understand which character was talking as the narrator didn’t do much to change her speech to indicate different speakers, so dialogue kind of ran together. Story was fabulous though.

Enchanting!

I was completely captivated by this book. I don't usually read books of this genre but I was instantly hooked. The story had me glued to my earbuds from start to finish. I loved it and I immediately downloaded the next book when it ended. The other reviewers were correct when they talked about the narrator being confusing. She was definitely not my favorite. It is so very hard to distinguish between characters when she talks. I feel it's especially important in a book like this when the names are hard to pronounce, the world/setting in which we are trying to visualize ourselves in is so foreign, and the characters dialogue is so quickly back and forth. Not a deal breaker but it does require a closer listen at some points.