I can’t really explain it, but it didn’t feel entirely right to me. Now, she just felt like she was supposed to be the complete opposite of Ash strong, mature, capable. She didn’t feel like a fully rounded character to me (but neither did Sidhean), and that’s a pity because she seemed really awesome.
I love that Lo turned what is usually seen as quite a masculine profession into a feminine one in her novel – I’m all for defying gender stereotypes! There was something about Kaisa that felt a bit off, though. Kaisa is the King’s Huntress, and really cool.
Sidhean is a fairy, and basically a total creep. I’d love to have read a novel about that Ash. She was sweet, and at the end she became really confident and strong, which was good. She wasn’t horrible, not at all, just a bit… meh, I suppose. Wow, that’s a lot of negative things about Ash. At eighteen, she acted like a fourteen-year-old girl. What I also thought was a bit strange is that she seemed much younger than she was for most of the time. She desperately wants to be with her mother again, so much so that she goes in search of the fairies, which I thought was extremely stupid. She did her stepmother’s and stepsisters’ bidding and read her fairy tales, but I felt like there wasn’t that much else to her for the longest time. For the majority of the story she was just kind of dull, to be honest. She really grew as a character, which I liked a lot, but she only started to be her own person near the end of the novel. To me, she was not an extremely interesting protagonist. It was a fun read, and I really liked the queer part of the book, but overall I didn’t feel very invested.įirst of all, let’s talk about Ash. It’s an LGBT retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale, and I had never heard of it before I started looking for suitable YA novels for my dissertation. The same is true for this novel – Ash by Malinda Lo. Last week, I reviewed The Selection by Kiera Cass, and told you that I read it as part of my dissertation. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.
Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love–and her desire to live. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learn to hunt with Kaisa. When she meets the dark and dangerous 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 to change. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. Consumed with grief, she finds her only joy by the light of the dying hearth fire, 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.
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