The King of Khorasan marries a new bride every day, and every dawn he kills them. When Shazi’s best friend is killed by the king, she vows to gets revenge and becomes his next wife to find out his weakness and kill him before he can kill her. But soon Shazi begins to realise there’s more to the monster of her nightmares than she thinks.

I think overall I was left feeling a little bit disappointed by this one. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the story or the characters, I did, I think I was just expecting more. I’m not sure what it was about most of the characters, maybe it was their dialogue, but they all felt very wooden and one-dimensional to me. I just didn’t really care about them. Shari was certainly plucky and brave but I feel like a lot of her talk was on empty air. I didn’t feel really connected to her, or Khalid, or even their relationship. I did prefer Khalid to Tariq who I felt was a bit possessive and at times didn’t even seem to let Shazi speak.

I feel like The Wrath and the Dawn only gave me the tip of the iceberg and I’m disappointed I didn’t get to see more. I feel like there’s a lot more to come, and I’m looking forward to reading the next book. I just hope it ends better than this one, which wasn’t even really a cliff-hanger, it was just a bit abrupt. Basically, during this whole book I kept waiting for something to ‘happen’ and then it just didn’t happen.