Review: The Fury and the Dawn- Renée Ahdieh

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For some reason that I will never understand, since they are already closed stories, re-reading classic stories is the type of reading that conquers us immediately. The more faithful, the quicker you hold us and this is the case The Fury and the Dawn, book inspired by Thousand and One Nights, that can hold you from start to finish.

Thousand and One Nights is a classic that tells several stories within a story. Some famous, like Alladin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves were born there. The content is simple, it features a king who kills his wives at dawn on their wedding night, until he marries a more astute woman, who has the idea of telling stories every night to her husband to stay alive, using his curiosity to find out the end of the story the next night.

However, the work of Renée Ahdieh it is not so simple, the author decides to explore a very interesting side of this story: the reason for the king to kill women. So, it guides us through a plot that presents us Sherezade, a young woman who volunteers to be the next wife of the Caliph Khalid, in order to avenge the death of her best friend. After the wedding, she uses the same storytelling device, which works in the early days, but her plans become more complicated when she realizes creating a bond with the killer and feeling an immense desire to know the reason for all the deaths.

A hundred lives for the one you took. A life at each dawn. If you fail once, I will rip your dreams away. I will take your city from you. And I will subtract those lives from you, thousands of times.

Renée's writing is delicious and intriguing, capturing interest in reading right at the prologue, where it instigates the reader's curiosity. And it is this curiosity that keeps us loyal and eager to read until the end, we need to know the reason why Khalid kills at each dawn. Along with this we have the desire to see the relationship of the characters becoming more intimate and to know if Sherezade's family will be able to save her from her fearsome destiny.

The Fury and the Dawn it shows a different side of Thousand and One Nights, the more rational, human and affective side. Governmental, moral, loving and social class issues are explored in the book, making the plot even more engaging.

When you meet the one who makes you smile like you've never smiled before, cry like you've never cried before ... there's nothing to do but surrender.

It is a voracious reading. It is practically impossible to stop until we know the outcome - and yet we were desperate for the continuation. The captivating characters quickly conquer us, deepening our relationship with the work.

The Fury and the Dawn is the first volume of a duology, the continuation, The Rose and the Dagger has already been confirmed by Alt Globe and is scheduled for the coming months.

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