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lydia_books's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny
raven_readss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Khalid-King-18
Shahrzad Shazi- Queen?-16
Graphic: Death
1quillb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury
notsobinaryart's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Miscarriage and Slavery
eelizard's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder
emsavors's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
dlsmk's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury
gummifrog's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
"The Wrath and the Dawn" is an enemies to lovers romance based on the framing device The 1001 Nights. I loved the characters so much, the world building, the relationships, the backstabbing betrayals and mistrust. This book was an emotional rollercoaster and so, so fun! It also had some interesting ideas to bring to the table about this kind of romance, which I appreciated. The writing was beautiful and it read easily and quickly. I absolutely spend a whole day doing nothing but listening to this one.
I only docked it from a 5 star rating for two things; I really disliked Tariq's storyline and POV, I just thought it was meandering and more plot-driven. The second thing was that Sharhzad's ruminations on her internal conflict were very repetitive, and I felt it could have been cut down somewhat.
I really liked the character development though, and the absolute badassery of all of the main cast. In addition, the reveal of "why is Khalid executing all these wives?" ended up being very effective for me, making his motivations make sense while not absolving him of direct guilt, which I was very impressed about!
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief
Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy
beckyyreadss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Suicide
Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, and Pregnancy
hazelgirl21's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Death and Blood