A Thousand And One Nights By: Many Authors

Originally written: 2/21/19

This page is all about retelling's of the same story. A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.This is a story that are folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. I first read "The Wrath and The Dawn" by Renee Ahdieh And I become so intrigued that I of course had to read the second book called "The Rose and The Dagger". I later found a different book but of the same idea but with some different facts and inspiration, focuses and twists in the plot. "A Thousand Nights" by E.K. Johnston there is also another book to this series as well called "Spindle" and I cannot wait to read the next book that follows.

The Base line for all three of these books is that. There is a man of power who goes to each village and takes a girl who is to become his wife and than she mysteriously dies the night of their wedding. So far there have been 'one thousand' before reaching both girls in these separate stories. The rest that follows is about their journeys after they have been wed and it becomes more of a mystery how they live past their first night, and continue to live past the nights to come.

Both of the girls have different ideas and "skills or powers" if you may, and their lives at these men houses are very different and the back stories of why these men do what they do are also very different, and that is what makes the retellings so very interesting. They both are page turners and both have second book that follow and what happens I am very interested to see.

Just giving some over view of these books with not a lot of detail;

I won't go into any detail of the second book in the over view but the "Wrath and The Dawn" is about the 'man in power' who has taken girls from villages and weds them and than he comes across a women who has volunteered ( and no its nothing like the hunger games whats so ever!) because he had previously took her best friend and she now wants revenge for her friend, she goes willingly to his home and her mission in volunteering is to kill this man. After they are wed he see's her at night and becomes very intrigued by this women and decides to keep her alive. She uncovers some very important things while living in this palace Why and what? you may ask... you'll have to read it to find out.

The second duopoly starts with "A Thousand Nights" follows the same base line a man in power who had taken girls from every village. This story follows a girl who takes her sisters place as she know that he will pick her sister, so she gets her sisters clothes and jewelry and stands in as her sister and this man in power ends up choosing her. She is taken and lives in his home and knows she may not live till the next day, but again he comes to visit her the night of their wedding and becomes infatuated with her and lets her live.

These book were both amazing and the authors exquisite writing styles. I couldn't put them down. and I am pretty sure I finished the first of each duology in one sitting. I would defiantly recommend that you pick one of them up.