Beautiful writing but didn't grab meMalinda Lo's debut novel, Ash, has a great premise, lyrical prose, and a richly detailed setting. Despite these points, I finished it feeling unmoved. In this Cinderella re-telling, the reader follows Ash across her teen years, during which she loses both of her p...
Ash is one of those books that takes retold fairy tales and the YA genre itself by storm! Lo writes with the elegant simplicity of someone who can find limitless beauty in the simple act of walking through a forest. She also has a thorough knowledge of Celtic mythology and fairy tales, which remin...
Another case where my expectations went ahead of me... and I think a little ADHD surfaced. I couldn't concentrate on the words--I think my brain wanted adventure and this is more of a placidly-plotted literary reinvention. Things I really enjoyed:- The loves in this book start in friendship- The s...
Aisling ("Ash") is young when her mother dies unexpectedly, and somewhat puzzled when her father remarries and brings a City lady and her two daughters to live in their quiet village. After her father's startling death and their subsequent removal to her stepmother's house, she finds comfort in tale...
This is truly a different version of Cinderella that is told with beautiful writing and distinctive dialogue. There is a definite twist to this story, as Aisling (ASH) has a fairy god father who is actually cursed to love her and Ash uses this fact to get what she wants. All of the other elements of...
Greatly enjoyed this book. Lo's writing is evocative, lush and lyrical, and I felt for her characters. Her prose is particularly strong when describing the lands of faerie and the wonder/terror of her protagonist's experiences with them. I liked the romance between Aisling and Kaisa, but I did fe...
I had really high expectations for Ash when I started and at first I thought it would live up to them. I hate to say it but in the end, it didn’t. For some reason Ash just wasn’t the book for me. I have read such rave reviews for it and I feel bad that I can’t say the same for it. I really liked ...
Fairytale meets faery-tale. Malinda Lo has adapted the age-old story of Cinderella in this charming new novel.After the death of Ash's mother, her father marries a woman with two daughters of her own. All seems well until Ash's father takes violently ill and dies after which her step-mother insists ...
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