This is one of my all time favorites. I come back to this one every few months to reread it. I love how intricate and complex the characters are, i especially enjoyed Fatima’s character. My feelings for her consist of flaming hatred, love, pity and begrudging understanding. If we read the story from her pov surely we would’ve hated shahryad for his cruelty and empathize with the poor girl who was forced to sell her body to survive as a slave. Also the stories that sehara tell to shahryar are incredible. The story of the son of the ocean king and the boy and the soldier made me actually bawl my eyes out. Its sad how none of his story end in true happiness but the truthfulness of it is very melancholic to me. I will read it again in a few months when it comes to my mind as it often does and enjoy it once again.
This is one of my all time favorites. I come back to this one every few months to reread it. I love how intricate and complex the characters are, i especially enjoyed Fatima’s character. My feelings for her consist of flaming hatred, love, pity and begrudging understanding. If we read the story from her pov surely we would’ve hated shahryad for his cruelty and empathize with the poor girl who was forced to sell her body to survive as a slave.
Also the stories that sehara tell to shahryar are incredible.
The story of the son of the ocean king and the boy and the soldier made me actually bawl my eyes out. Its sad how none of his story end in true happiness but the truthfulness of it is very melancholic to me.
I will read it again in a few months when it comes to my mind as it often does and enjoy it once again.