The Wrath and the Dawn

7.31.2021 Update: I wrote a really cheesy review about this book back when I was freshly 18 and you can read that below but ohmyfucking God this book is even better than I remember. Someone please run me over bc I will never find love.

Original Review:

10/5 stars

“My soul sees it's equal in you.”
How the hell do I review a book like this? How am I suppose to give it just five stars, when it deserves all the stars in the night sky? How do I search through the language I've spoken since birth to find a string of words that could possibly describe my love for this novel?

I'm not good at writing reviews, I am the first to admit that, but I see myself growing better with every book I do take the time to review. I can easily put together a few casual words to place my feelings before me, let others know what I like and what I disliked about what I just read. Yet, with the Wrath & the Dawn, I am speechless. I don't know how to process everything I just read and put my emotions and thoughts into words. I don't know how to take the words I do somehow create and place them into paragraphs that together will somehow make sense. I just don't know.

I finished this book yesterday, and my mind, my body, my soul still aches for the story even as I trudge non-stop through the sequel. The characters seemed so real, every time I forced my eyes away from the whimsical writing, I could see Shahrzad and Khalid in front of me, talking, kissing, smiling. I felt Shahrzad next to me and her hatred of Khalid evolving into love. Never in all my years of reading has it ever been so easy to imagine the characters, to feel as if I already knew them.

These characters quickly became my friends. I rooted for them throughout their adventure together. As they slowly fell in love, I rooted for their romance. When they finally came together, when they found something in each other that no one else could see, when they perfected each other in a way no one else could, I rejoiced for them, celebrated their love as if it was my own.

I went to sleep, and thought about this book. I let my mind wander through slumber, and it dreamt about this book. I woke up and yearned to read just a word from this book.

Everything about The Wrath & The Dawn was perfect.

More then perfect. It was impeccable. Flawless.

It was a read I'll never forget.