A Fairy Tale Retold
- Whitney Lyons
- Jan 23, 2017
- 2 min read
I am a huge lover of fairy tales in any fashion. So, by default, any book that has anything to do with a fairy tale is my niche. As you can imagine, when I was gifted The Wrath of the Dawn book duet for Christmas, I immediately stopped what I was reading to start them. I have no regrets.
The Wrath of the Dawn duet by Renee Ahdieh is a retelling of the classic Arabian Nights story with a Beauty and the Beast twist. While it's advertised as a re-imagining of Arabian Nights, I personally found more correlation to Beauty and the Beast.
In Beauty and the Beast, a man in a castle has been cursed in a beastly form and the beauty, Belle, offers to take her father's place as a captive to stay at the castle forever with the Beast. In The Wrath of the Dawn, the beast is represented by Khalid and the beauty is Shaharzad. Khalid is considered a monster as he is killing off his brides at dawn and Shaharzad offers to be the next of his brides in the name of revenge because his last bride was her dearest friend. While Belle just wants to save her father, Shahrzard wants to save herself and all future brides from a terrible fate, and as the story unfolds, Khalid from himself.
From the second I opened the book I was captivated. Where in Beauty and the Beast you know exactly why the Beast is a monster, Ahdieh keeps why Khalid is killing off his brides at dawn a secret. It created an air of mystery surrounding the book that had me staying up until 1 am to learn why. On top of that, I was captivated by Shahrzard, her stories, her ability to survive another dawn and, on top of it all, the forbidden love story that blooms.
Don't let this book series pass you by!
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