As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother's home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor, was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself has the power to see them too. I am working on it, though! I’ll be reading The Huntress next it is a companion to this book.In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. I wasn’t familiar with the tales Aisling/Ash told, but then, I haven’t read everything. Ash blends the traditional story with a love triangle, and weaves in its own “old tales” of fairy. So, I read a lot of retellings of this tale.
I had to have the movie when it was released on VHS even though I was in college at the time. Sacrifices must be made but who will make them is up in the air.Ĭinderella is my favorite fairy tale I had the Disney sound track on a record as a child and can still sing those songs. Complicating that potential romance is the growing friendship and attraction between Ash and Kaisa, the King’s Huntress.
Lo’s take on the Cinderella fairy tale replaces the fairy godmother with a fairy prince who demands a price for the wishes he grants. Ash only sees him when she walks in the woods, and then only when he decides to show himself to her. Her only “friend” is a fairy prince, who is as frightening as he is intriguing. Torn from the only home she has known in a small village, to serving her step family to “repay” her father’s debts is quite a shock. Read moreĪisling is distraught at the death of her mother, but nothing has prepared her for her life after her father’s remarriage and subsequent death. Make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.Įntrancing and romantic, Ash is an empowering retelling of Cinderella about theĬonnection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformationĬan come from even the deepest grief. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must Though theirįriendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love-and Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa.
When she meets the dark andĭangerous fairy Sidhean, she begins to believe that her wish may be granted.īut the day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s royal Huntress, her heart begins toĬhange. In her dreams, someday theįairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. Re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother.Ĭonsumed with grief, she finds her only joy by the light of the dying hearth fire,
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