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Violence
A lot
Significant violence — the executions of the brides; court violence; a siege
Language
Barely any
Clean — Ahdieh's prose is ornate and period-inflected
Sexual Content
Some
Khalid and Shahrzad's marriage — sensual; some intimate content; mostly closed-door
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The bride killings — what Khalid is doing and why; the mystery; The executions — they happen; we learn why slowly; Khalid's secret — why he kills; the revelation; Shahrzad's plan — she intends to kill him; it becomes complicated; The siege — violence; Tariq's role; A duology — concludes in The Rose and the Dagger
What this book is about
In a land where the Caliph of Khorasan takes a new bride each day and has her killed the next morning, Shahrzad volunteers — to avenge her best friend Shiva. She survives by telling stories each night, leaving them unfinished at dawn. The Wrath and the Dawn is a lush retelling of One Thousand and One Nights — romantic, ornate, and built on a mystery: why does Khalid keep killing his brides?
Notes for sensitive readers
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The bride killings — what Khalid is doing and why
Khalid's secret — the revelation of why he kills
Shahrzad's plan — she intends to kill him; it becomes complicated
A duology — concludes in The Rose and the Dagger
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