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A review by galacticvampire
The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
slow-paced
2.0
I rate books based on delivery of what was promised. I do not require High Literature from teen romances. Therefore, I'd be perfectly happy if this had admitted to itself that it was arabic twilight. Because it is. And it didn't.
If I hadn't bought the ebook I wouldn't have passed the 20% mark because it was so unbelievably nonsense!! The girl keep repeating that she wants to kill the caliph but not for a second I believed she actually wanted to. She didn't have a plan, she didn't hate him, and the narrative tries too hard to make it seem like she's this witty mastermind.
It takes 60% of the book for the plot to start. And once it does it's fun in a very twilight way: it's predictable and quite tacky, but the characters get charming enough that you roll with it. BUT IT TAKES 250 PAGES TO GET THERE. I'd rate the last 150 about 4 stars, because indeed delivered what I expected (and I know I would've enjoyed as a teen, which is the point), but I cannot ignore that this book stalled itself for the most part.
(I'll give to the author that the scents, colors and foods descriptions are very beautiful and lively, but pretty words a story does not make)
(I'm not even going to comment on how the logic and the romance are toxic and possessive because 1- already stabilshed this is arabic twilight so duh, 2- it'll never end, there's and entire book of ??? decisions and 3- I don't think future me will care and that's who I write reviews for)
If I hadn't bought the ebook I wouldn't have passed the 20% mark because it was so unbelievably nonsense!! The girl keep repeating that she wants to kill the caliph but not for a second I believed she actually wanted to. She didn't have a plan, she didn't hate him, and the narrative tries too hard to make it seem like she's this witty mastermind.
It takes 60% of the book for the plot to start. And once it does it's fun in a very twilight way: it's predictable and quite tacky, but the characters get charming enough that you roll with it. BUT IT TAKES 250 PAGES TO GET THERE. I'd rate the last 150 about 4 stars, because indeed delivered what I expected (and I know I would've enjoyed as a teen, which is the point), but I cannot ignore that this book stalled itself for the most part.
(I'll give to the author that the scents, colors and foods descriptions are very beautiful and lively, but pretty words a story does not make)
(I'm not even going to comment on how the logic and the romance are toxic and possessive because 1- already stabilshed this is arabic twilight so duh, 2- it'll never end, there's and entire book of ??? decisions and 3- I don't think future me will care and that's who I write reviews for)
Content Warnings
Minor: Rape