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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() A queer retelling of Cinderella in which the fairy godmother is sort of a combo of Ash's dead witch mother and a fae dude with the hots for her. There is a prince and a ball and hidden identities, but there's also a lady royal hunter, and Ash has some choices to make. Fabulous retelling - I loved the twists put into the original tale, and except for the ending feeling a bit rushed and a little too pat, I really enjoyed it. Honestly, I had higher hopes for this. But really the only thing this book has going for it is that it's got a queer protagonist and love story. I found it highly disappointing simply because it was shallow, lacking any real depth or nuance to both the story and the characters. A disappointing read that only gets a higher mark because YA with a queer main character is rare 4/10 I love a good fairy tale re-imagining. I read this book while in the UK, attending and speaking at a conference in Liverpool. This book took me a total of maybe two days to read, and I loved every single second of it. I remember beginning it and thinking to myself that I wouldn’t like it as much as I thought I would, but then as the pages kept turning and the story kept progressing, I just found myself finding every excuse to read. The story is a new take on the classic story of Cinderella. Ash, a young girl whose mother was a grassroots witch and whose father is a man who never believed much in that stuff, has been orphaned after the unfortunate death of both her birth parents. Her cruel stepmother demotes her to slave and chambermaid, and locks away anything that belongs to Ash from her parents. In a fit of desperation, Ash starts to spend whole evenings lying near her dead mother’s grave, spurred on by the memory of the folktale in their part of the world that says that if no vigil is kept on the night that somebody is buried, their soul will be taken away. She is constantly hoping to find the Fae that live in the forests, and one day is granted her wish. A Fae man, Sidhaen, arrives and grants her her wishes, but makes a deal with her that eventually, she must go with him to the fairy world, never to return to her own. This all sounds well and good, as she is completely obsessed and in love with the fairy prince, but it is when she falls in love with the King’s Huntress that this decision becomes all the more difficult. This story is so well told and beautifully written, and though you know Ash will eventually find her happiness, it is still so suspenseful in its own way. What I especially liked about it is that Ash is never explicitly said to have any attraction towards either gender, effectively making her a bisexual character. It is also not really something that is ever shown to be fully frowned upon in their society for Ash to be falling in love with a woman, although all the women around her seem to be flocking towards men. Perhaps we just never get to see that side of this world; perhaps it’s just a non-issue altogether. It is nice, though, to read a story where a gay character doesn’t dwell on the backlash of their attraction for pages on end. Seriously though, read this book if you like re-imagined fairytales. Every single part of it was just so well-written and plotted out, and I loved the build up in the story from Ash’s childhood to her adolescence, and her steady falling in love with (and eventual pulling away from) the fairy world in the wake of her mother’s death. All in all, my final rating is 5/5. Please read this book and appreciate how amazing it is!
Malinda Lo’s somber and lovely “Ash” is a lesbian retelling of “Cinderella”... It features a beautiful orphan — Ash, short for Aisling, and a perfect play on the name “Cinderella” — a cruel, social-climbing stepmother and two sneering stepsisters. Lo gives us a vaguely medieval setting, royal hunts, grand balls and an unquestioned class hierarchy. Not until the introduction of Kaisa, the king’s gorgeous young huntress, do we get a spin on tradition. Appartiene alle SerieRoyal Huntress (1) Premi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love. Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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