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"Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife."When Lo-Melkhiin - a formidable king - arrives at her desert home, she knows that he will take her beautiful sister for a wife. Desperate to save her sister from certain death, she makes the ultimate sacrifice - leaving home and family behind to live with a fearful man. But it seems that a strange magic flows between her and Lo-Melkhiin, and night after night, she survives. Finding power in storytelling, the words she speaks are given strange life of their own. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. But she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king . . . if only she can stop her heart from falling for a monster.Set against a harsh desert backdrop, A Thousand Nights by E K Johnston is an evocative tale of love, mystery and magic that would not feel out of place if Scheherazade herself were telling it. And perhaps she is...
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A Thousand Nights, E. K. Johnston
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- A Thousand Nights
- Language
- English
- Authors
- E. K. Johnston
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1447284119
- ISBN13
- 9781447284116
- Series
- A Thousand Nights
- Tags
- Fiction, Children's Books, Fantasy, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Stories, Magic, Children's Fantasy
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- "Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife."When Lo-Melkhiin - a formidable king - arrives at her desert home, she knows that he will take her beautiful sister for a wife. Desperate to save her sister from certain death, she makes the ultimate sacrifice - leaving home and family behind to live with a fearful man. But it seems that a strange magic flows between her and Lo-Melkhiin, and night after night, she survives. Finding power in storytelling, the words she speaks are given strange life of their own. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. But she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king . . . if only she can stop her heart from falling for a monster.Set against a harsh desert backdrop, A Thousand Nights by E K Johnston is an evocative tale of love, mystery and magic that would not feel out of place if Scheherazade herself were telling it. And perhaps she is...