Here’s another cute moment between those two: I am crossing my fingers that their love can surpass all odds. Those two forbidden lovers need their happiness.

I can’t wait to read more about Despina and Jalal. One of my favorite moments is the garden scene.Īnd for a single moment, they forgot who they both were. Despina and Jalal are my second favorite pairing. I loved it! When I read the The Wrath and The Dawn, I wanted to know Despina’s history with Jalal. Jalal tries to hit on Despina, but she brushes him off. The story starts off with Despina’s pov and she has recently been promoted to a handmaiden. I really liked Despina in The Wrath and The Dawn, and I was pleased with this novella. I’ll start off with The Moth and The Flame. I am beyond excited for The Rose and The Dagger which is coming out this month!! Renée Ahdieh has blessed us, the readers, with two short stories. 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. In fact, what he had seen in her eyes was nothing short of pure hatred. Not only had she volunteered to marry him, but at their wedding ceremony, she had seemed not the least bit afraid.

And there was something about this latest girl that piqued his interest. Khalid didn’t know how many more of these dawns he could take. This dawn, Khalid would mark the loss of the seventy-second girl, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. Goodreads Synopsis: Seventy-one days and seventy-one nights had come and gone since Khalid began killing his brides. What begins as a tempestuous battle of will and wit in short order becomes a passionate affair spurred on by tragedy of the worst kind. But she, too, seems to have met her match in the handsome Jalal. Goodreads Synopsis: It started as playful, if barbed, banter before rising to a fateful wager with a most notorious rake-the Captain of the Guard, Jalal al-Khoury-who may have finally met his match in a lovely, if haughty, handmaiden, Despina.

The moth and the flame renee ahdieh