The Wrath and the Dawn

DNF - PG 212

Why?

I love 1001 Nights or Arabian Nights or whatever you want to call them. There's something about that story that's always fired my imagination so I was super excited for this book... Sadly, I was left disappointed and bored enough that I completely lost interest and won't finish it.

While I do feel that nothing was ever happening, my biggest problem was actually the fairy tale aspect. You see, I was ready for a slow-burn romance that took many, many nights - and many, many tales - for our murderous Caliph to start falling in love with our brave storyteller.

Instead, what we got was Kahlid immediately treating Shahrzad differently than he has all his other (now dead) wives and a grand total of two nights worth of tales. (Okay, so that's only in the first half or so, but if there are tales after that it completely defeats the point of what I was looking for. For pities sake, Shahrzad dangled Aladdin's story in front of us and then we don't even get that.)

Truthfully, I can see why this book is so popular - but it's so not for me.