Genre: Young Adult
Sub Genre: Fantasy; Retelling of
Cinderella
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Back Cover: Pushed into indentured
servitude for her stepmother in the City to pay off her father’s debts, Ash is
consumed with grief. She misses her family and her happy life at the edge of
the Wood where old magic used to linger in the air like fairy breath. Her only
joy comes from the brief, stolen walks in the woods with the dark and dangerous
fairy Sidhean. Ash’s single, unspoken hope is that someday he might steal her
away, as fairies are said to do. But on the day that Ash meets Kaisa, the
King’s Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, from
Kaisa she learns the are to the hunt, how to ride and track. Their friendship
is as delicate as a new bloom, but it grows and changes, and with it, Ash
reawakens her capacity for love – and her desire to live. Entrancing and
romantic, Ash is an empowering retelling of Cinderella about choosing life and
love over solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the
deepest grief.
This was unlike any retelling of a
fairy tale I have ever read. One that I found to be inventive and new. Ash is
almost a whisper of a person practically begging Sidhean to take her away from
her life. Not even caring that she would be dead. But Kaisa changes everything,
and she doesn’t even know why she is so drawn to Ash. I loved the hunting
aspect that was added along with the talk of the old magic, making the world
seem more real and mysterious. Now this book is not due out till September, but
it is something that I know I will read again. I enjoyed this very much.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031604010X
Pages: 272
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