Review #15 - The Ninety-Ninth Bride

Author: Catherine F. King Rating: ★★★★

The stories of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian folktales), the likes of Grimms' Fairy Tales, Aesop Fables, all of these resonate a feeling of nostalgia within most of the reading community (well, kids who still read these stories, I think the last generation to read them or hear of them, was mine), and a lot of writers off late have been trying to recreate these stories in a more current generation manner, which doesn't go down well with a lot of people, because we don't like change.

On the other hand, here is a short tale of Dunya, who caught up in a world of deceit and politics run by the patriarchs of her family, is wedded off to the mad Sultan, who has executed his entire harem of wives, in a revenge filled mind, and Dunya is next up in line, the Ninety-Ninth bride, to be exact. How does she save herself from her fateful end? Well, that's the story.

And in my opinion, a beautiful one at that. A short story of about 37 pages on the Kindle that not only skimmed through, but presented major stories of the Arabian Nights in the same old way, but in a whole new story, with quite a few twists, which I will not mention. Stories like these are what, in my opinion, make a lot of us believe in fairy tales, or the win of good over bad, and all the other morals we used to learn and confidence boosters we used to get from these stories of the Old Ages. Do give it a shot, but with a mind open to fantasy stories, and not a mind of a matured individual who thinks fantasy is only for kids.

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