because we never see the love developing, it just sort of seems unconvincing at the end. So but also, it is not developed enough to be that casual. In this world, she is not choosing the love that dares not speak its name over the more traditional lover, in fact, she is choosing the more socially acceptable one. so kudos on that, but this does two things: it removes conflict, except the conflict of "do i go with my awesome fairy lover which is what i have wanted since i was a little girl, or do i go with my awesome huntress woman who is badass and has a great job." two great options, must be nice. in the world of this novel, the same-gender love is not shocking, it is not taboo - sometimes girls just go with girls. we never see them fall in love, we never understand why. and as a lesbian awakening novel, it fails me, too. So as a fairy tale, it fails me, psychologically. am i the only one feeling bad for sidhean? his was a "forbidden love", too, and he didn't even get any say in the matter. strangely, she was even more enigmatic than ash's fairy-lover, with his intoxicating presence and fancy gifts and willingness to assist ash in all her assignations. i never got a sense of character from the huntress she remained enigmatic. is it just a matter of "the heart wants what the heart wants", and we don't need to explain what attracts two people to each other? there was no "moment of falling".
i simply do not understand this character's motivations, or what leads her on to her fairy tale ending. is this a universal truth, or am i letting my undergrad "psychology of fairy tales" class color my thinking here? let's say we all know this to be so. it's not a difficult read, but unlike the others, it is not all surface reading there is depth here that elevates it to the ranks of "litterature," yessss.įairy tales are generally symbolic stories which mask universal human desires too emotional or frightening to deal with head-on. boy meets boy and keeping you a secret were so chatty and conversational - this one required more involvement from the reader, which involvement i have been missing in a big way. boy meets boy and keepi goddamn it, this was my bright shiny hope for gay YA week! this was the one i was banking on to be my best "assigned-but-loved-the-whole-time-i-was-reading-it-and-this-is-why-i-am-paying-for-grad-school-discovery." a lesbian retelling of cinderella? sign me up! i've already read what robert coover and angela carter have done to improve fairy tales, let's see where this one goes!Īnd it starts out great - the writing is wonderful it is very literary and lush and haunting. Goddamn it, this was my bright shiny hope for gay YA week! this was the one i was banking on to be my best "assigned-but-loved-the-whole-time-i-was-reading-it-and-this-is-why-i-am-paying-for-grad-school-discovery." a lesbian retelling of cinderella? sign me up! i've already read what robert coover and angela carter have done to improve fairy tales, let's see where this one goes! and it starts out great - the writing is wonderful it is very literary and lush and haunting. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.Įntrancing, 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.more 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 learns to hunt with Kaisa. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do.
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 the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she b Cinderella retold Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother.
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