Read-alikes

Books Like The Wrath and the Dawn

The Wrath and the Dawn is captive / captor, enemies to lovers & arranged marriage — sweet (1/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry the boy-caliph Khalid — who takes a new bride each night and executes her at dawn — intending to avenge her best friend's death. She survives by spinning stories that keep him enthralled until the next nightfall. But as the dawns multiply, she discovers the man behind the murders is far more complex than the monster she came to destroy.