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Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day—providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.
It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories—ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, Marjan is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, coaxing strangers to tell her stories and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. Marjan, who had been just a quiet spinner of tales when the story began, becomes the center of a story more surprising than she ever imagined.
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This was an above average middle grade historical, well written and with good atmosphere. Marjan immediately has our sympathy, the slow reveal of her story is skillfully played out, and the humanization of legendary figures is also believable. I liked the underlying message of the power of stories to shape our lives.
This was a great book! I read it to my son for school, but I ended up falling in love with this story too.
It makes me wanna be a storyteller when I grow up!! LOVE!