The Diary of a Mood Reader

The Crown & The Arrow Author:   +Renee Ahdieh   Source: Purchased in the Amazon Kindle store Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Books for Young Readers Format: kindle ebook Pages: 9 Genre:  YA Fantasy Rating: 3 Stars Release: March 1st 2016 Author's Website Seventy-one days and seventy-one nights had come and gone since Khalid began killing his brides. This dawn, Khalid would mark the loss of the seventy-second girl, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. Khalid didn’t know how many more of these dawns he could take. And there was something about this latest girl that piqued his interest. Not only had she volunteered to marry him, but at their wedding ceremony, she had seemed not the least bit afraid. In fact, what he had seen in her eyes was nothing short of pure hatred. She was about to lose her life. Why wasn’t she afraid? Why did she hate him so? He had never before gone to his wife’s chambers before her death at dawn. Tonight would be different. Let me just say, at onl...

Series:The Wrath & The Dawn (duology) Source: Purchased @ bookstore Format: Hardcover Pages: 388 Genre: YA Fantasy Rating: 3 Stars Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons for Young Readers  Release date: May 12th 2015 A sumptuous and especially told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neith...