I like Renee as a writer. She's really a good one. She even writes beautifully, where I cannot deny that she is good in romance, world building, and interesting story line. That is why I wanted to like this book so bad. Really bad. But I just can't. I can never be connected and tied to this book no matter what. 
 Though I wasn't expecting much from this second book after the letdown on the first. But I was still anticipating that The Rose and the Dagger would justify all the confusion and disappointments I had in the first book. The Wrath & the Dawn started with a great potential to be something really amazing. And I'm sad that wasn't what I got. Now, I admit defeat so I could say that the whole series wasn't perfectly plotted. 
 First of all, I really didn't get why this book has multiple POVs. I could bear one to three POVs. But six to eight? That's really uninteresting. Though she created another interesting point with Irsa, Shazi's sister, and Rahim. (view spoiler)[Sadly though Rahim died. But in my honest opinion, it would have been better if that's how it ended with Shazi and Khalid. (hide spoiler)] 
 Second, there were tons of plot holes in the story. 
 The plot was so patchy that I almost drop the whole thing like a hot potato. So how in hell Rajput got magical powers again? And did we get any thing from Shazi's power? You see, the few bits of magic sprinkled in this book didn't even seem to fit in. On a good point, it's a good thing that Tariq woke up from his nasty and horrible revenge towards Khalid. 'Cause love revenge doesn't really make any sense. And oh, oh! Despina's story and the twist were just so weird and utterly ridiculous. And lemme see, oh yeah. (view spoiler)[So Jahandar killed Khalid and on the last page, and what happened again? Yeah, Khalid lived on the next page. Why didn't Jahandar did that on his wife again? So, yep. I am confused. (hide spoiler)] 
 Overall, the novel was rushed. There were a lot of happenings but no backbone. So yeah, I enjoyed it but very very little. It was a major disappointed.