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The Wrath & the Dawn

  • 1700 first published
  • 404 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (6 ratings)
  • 3 editions

Renée Ahdieh's The Wrath & the Dawn (1700) is a fae fiction and adventure fiction novel. Readers will find themes of fairy tales, murder, love and ancient Civilizations.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 185 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 3 editions.

At about 404 pages, most readers finish it in 7–8 hours.

About The Wrath & the Dawn

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.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Subjects

  • Fairy tales
  • Murder
  • Love
  • Love stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Romance fiction
  • YOUNG ADULT FICTION
  • Action & Adventure
  • Historical
  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Romance
  • Homicide

Quick answers

Who wrote The Wrath & the Dawn?

The Wrath & the Dawn was written by Renée Ahdieh and first published in 1700.

What genre is The Wrath & the Dawn?

It is usually shelved as Fae & Fairy Fiction, Adventure, Fairy Tales & Folklore and Classic Love Stories.

How long is The Wrath & the Dawn?

The median edition has 404 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Wrath & the Dawn?

Readers who like it often enjoy Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit and The Cricket on the Hearth.

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