The wrath and the dawn

One Thousand and One Nights, also often known as Arabian Nights, has been told and retold and changed and adapted for more than 1,300 years. And there's a reason for that: This collection of West, Central and South Asian, North African, and Arabic folk tales can be molded to fit nearly any audience at any time. Debut author Renée Ahdieh takes her stab at a retelling next May with The Wrath and the Dawn. Bustle has an exclusive first look at the cover, prologue, and first chapter of The Wrath and the Dawn. Though the contents of the stories change, One Thousand and One Nights has used the same framing device since the 700s. There is always an evil ruler, Shahryār or a similar name, and there is always his wife, Scheherazade. As the story goes, when Scheherazade knew that she was to die at dawn by the hands of her husband, she captivated him with her stories for, yes, 1,001 nights to avoid her death sentence. In Ahdieh's 2015 novel, the evil ruler is the Caliph, a murderous 18-year-old king, and his tale-spinning wife is 16-year-old Shahrzad, or Shazi. Every night, as Shazi knows, the Caliph takes a new teenage bride, and every dawn he kills her in favor of another. But like her namesake, Shazi uses her wits and cunning to try to outsmart the Caliph and exact revenge. The Wrath and the Dawn cover image pays homage to its setting and the history its tales are imbued with in its design. Ahdieh is a proponent of the The Wrath and the Dawn certainly includes under represented gr...

Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. 404 pages : 22 cm In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace Sequel: The rose & the dagger Reading Counts High School 5.3 Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.3 Reading Counts RC High School 5.3 Accelerated Reader AR 5.3 Tayshas High School Reading List, 2016 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-02-09 13:06:50 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40337314 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wrathdawn0000ahdi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2hcw1f93kx Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780399171611 0399171614 9780399176654 0399176659 9780147513854 0147513855 Lccn 2014046249 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9927 Ocr_modu...

The Wrath & the Dawn (Penguin/Putnam, May 12th, 2015) 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 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 break the cycle once and for all. Accolades for The Wrath & the Dawn #1 New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller #4 on the Summer 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List! An Amazon Best Book of the Year for 2015 – Young Adult A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens for 2015 A Seventeen Magazine Best Book of 2015 A YALSA 2016 Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick A Junior Library Guild Selection A Booklist Top Ten First Novel for Young Adults in 2015 A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story.” US Weekly Fans of strong characters and fairytale retellings will love this book.” Th...

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the breathtaking bestseller The Wrath and the Dawn "A satisfying fast-paced conclusion, Ahdieh explores the difficulty of family, lasting loyalty, and love giving you a tale you won't soon forget."— InStyle In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's empire. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan.While her father, Jahandar, continues to play with magical forces he doesn't yet understand, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her. With the help of a tattered old carpet and a tempestuous but sage young man, Shahrzad will attempt to break the curse and reunite with her one true love. Renée Ahdieh is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her spare time, she likes to dance salsa and collect shoes. She is passionate about all kinds of curry, rescue dogs, and college basketball. The first few years of her life were spent in a high-rise in South Korea; consequently, Renée enjoys having her head in the clouds. ...

Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that The Wrath & the Dawn is the first of a two-book series that combines elements of the "1001 Nights" (or "Arabian Nights") within a fantasy love story. Here the caliph's bride and storyteller is Shahrzad not Scheherazade. She manages to survive when dozens of girls have already… a little This homage to "Arabian Nights" (or "1001 Nights") shortens the storyteller's name from Scheherazade to Shahrzad and Shahrzad tells a few stories within the story, with a mention of one character that will be familiar: Aladdin. A glossary will help readers with some Persian terms and places. • Positive Messages Some animal sacrifices for magic, a hanging execution stopped at the last moment, and talk of dozens of girls who were hung after their marriage to the caliph. Fights with swords and arrows that kill and injure with some talk of blood spewed, a man drags his own throat across a blade to avoid being captured alive or made to talk. A fire started by lightning destroys a city. Talk of sadness in characters' pasts: The caliph's mother was killed in front of him when he was 6 after she was accused of adultery, there's a pregnancy loss, a hanging suicide, a man killing himself with a dagger, a mother dying of wasting sickness, and another mother dying of grief after her daughter is taken and killed. Plus talk of some violence in the stories told: a shipwreck, a drowned crew, fights, the death of a mentor, dead wives found in a cellar. Did you k...

Read our The Wrath and the Dawn summary right here! This page is full of spoilers so if you haven’t read this book yet click here to read a spoiler-free Author Renee Ahdieh Ratings 4.5 stars on 4.24 stars on Goodreads Shades of Magic ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in The Wrath and the Dawn? Shahrzad volunteers to become the next bride of King Khalid even knowing that her life will be forfeit. Every day he marries a different girl, and she is dead by morning. Shahrzad’s friend Shiva has already died at his hand. Shahrzad has sworn that she will avenge her friend’s death. Shahrzad’s father, Jahandar, and her sister flee to the home of Tariq, Shahrzad’s childhood sweetheart. But Tariq has already left with his friend Rahim to see if he can stop her death. On Shahrzad’s wedding night, Khalid comes to her near dawn, and she begins telling him an exciting story. When dawn arrives, she stops and refuses to finish until the next night. He grants her one more day. I give it 4.75 stars overall. Let’s be friends on Goodreads: The next morning a handmaiden named Despina readies her for the day. Shahrzad makes her way to the training grounds and requests that Jalal, Captain of the Guard teach her to shoot a bow. She pretends not to know how though she is very skilled with the weapon. The second night Shahrzad again tells her story to the king. In the morning, they come to get her, but Khalid hesitates and once again allows her to live. Tariq and Rahim arrive in...

The basics Title: The Wrath and the Dawn Author: Series: - The Wrath and the Dawn (May 2015) - The Rose and the Dagger (April 2016) Add it: Goodreads Summary: 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's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all. Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets? The king of Khorasan has been cursed by his first wife’s, Ava, father to marry a hundred girls every evening and have them killed every dawn if he want...

Renée Ahdieh’s YA fantasy duology The Wrath and the Dawn is in the works as a TV series! Deadline reports that rights have been optioned by 1212 Entertainment, the company that brought us last year’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Ahdieh’s series, a retelling of One Thousand and One Nights,focuses on a girl named Shahrzad, who aims to avenge her best friend’s death at the hands of her country’s ruler. USA Today called it “a riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story.” Here’s the summary from the publisher: Buy it Now • opens in a new window • opens in a new window • opens in a new window • opens in a new window • opens in a new window 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 Wrath & the Dawn, ...