"What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?" he whispered. 
 "If I'm a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed." The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest. 
 "No." His hands dropped to her waist. "Destroy me." 
 OK WOW! THIS BOOK HAS TAKEN MY BREATH AWAY! 
 I'm a sucker for retellings/reimagining so I already had high hopes for this book and let me tell you IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT! The character development, the romance, the writing- everything was absolute perfection!! 
 Starting with the writing, Renee Ahdieh's writing was absolutely majestic! Usually when I see a large chunk of description in a novel I skip over it because quite frankly its boring. But Ahdieh described things I found myself intrigued, leaning into the pages and wanting more. Another aspect in her writing that I particularly loved and stood out to me was the way Shazi told her stories. Even Shazi's stories kept me intrigued and I enjoyed them! Ahdieh's writing style definitely majorly contributed to me giving the book a 5 star rating. 
 The plot was really the major reason for this books 5 star rating. I loved how Ahdieh took the original story (A Thousand Nights) and made it her own. Shazi and Khalid's romance was so beautiful and I just ugh have no words to describe it... it was perfect! I didn't particularly care for Baba's story and frankly Tariq was hella annoying. 
 One thing that I think could have been better in this book was the character development. At least in my opinion, the character development was barely there and where it was there it seemed a bit weak and unbelievable. The only other issue that almost came up in this book was the insta love troupe. There was a moment in this book were I thought that Shazi and Khalid almost fell prey to this but it didn't happen in my opinon! Thank god! 
 But yeah, all in all, I really enjoyed the novel and would definitely recommend it YA Fantasy/Romance lovers.