Loved this story, a fresh fairytale with familiarity and a sensuous style that swept me away into a world of thrilling and luxurious fantasy, I finished it in one day.
Spoiler Rating: High Hey Katie, I won't lie; I rushed through Ash years ago, and didn't particularly like it. It was marketed to me as a lesbian Cinderella story, and if there are two things that'll perk my ears up, it's lesbian characters and Cinderella stories. So I settled down with Ash and a...
You have no idea how much I wanted to love Ash. I mean, a Cinderella retelling where Cinderella (Ash) is a lesbian? Count me in! For sure!For such an interesting and original premise, Ash was pretty dull. Pretty much NOTHING happens throughout the whole book. There is no conflict that has to be reso...
When Ash's father dies, she finds herself the servant of her stepmother and stepsisters. Her only comfort are the fairy tales her mother used to read her as a child. Ash's best hope for getting out of her situation is to be taken by the fairies, and when she meets the fairy Sidhean, it looks like he...
Like a lot of the other reviews of this book, I had really high expectations after reading what it was about, but the novel ultimately fell short. I am not much into fairy tales, but the idea of "Cinderella" not choosing the prince and falling in love with a woman instead was pretty appealing to me....
Malinda Lo's lovely lesbian YA Ash is a romantic and lyrical retelling of Cinderella with two female protagonists. Yet the structure of the world is very focused on straight marriage as a means of property transfer and means of producing heirs.
I almost didn't read this book because it had fairies (I don't like them). I like my fantasy stories to have dragons, magic, death, blood, but this book had none of that, however, I really loved this story, I never got bored, on the contrary, I couldn't put the book down, and here I am, at 1:30am on...
I finally have gotten around to reading this much recommended book. I like it. It's done a difficult thing; making the various "Cinderella" tales (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html) new. It's also rather subtle. This one's a keeper for me. And I'll be looking for more by Lo.
While I’m a sucker for retellings and an even bigger fan of fairy tale retellings/reworkings/updates/continuations/spins/what have you, I do come into said things with a caveat—what does the author do to make this their own? Which is hard, and I acknowledge that. Taking a story and characters that a...
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