Renée Ahdiehin fantasiaromaani polveilee moneen suuntaan, ja sisältää lukuisia pieniä tarinoita, samaan tapaan kuin Tuhannen ja yhden yön tarinoissa luodaan uusia maailmoja: The wrath and the dawn (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015; ISBN 978-0-399-17665-4).
Kirja tuntui paikoitellen keskeneräiseltä, katkonaiselta, mutta toisaalta tarinan kehyskertomus pysyy kuitenkin jotakuinkin kasassa, ja omaperäisyyttä kerronnassa on sen verran ettei romaani tunnu aiempien tarinoiden uudelleen kierrätykseltä.
Sen verran tarina tarrasi kiinni, että varasin saman tien luettavaksi romaanin jatko-osan The Rose and the Dagger.
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, 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.
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