Ash -

Malinda Lo

Hodder Children's Books

2010

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780340988374

In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. 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. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty, greed and ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court, and hopefully Royal or aristocratic marriage, Ash befriends one of these fairies-a mysterious, handsome man-who grants her wishes and restores hope to Ash's existence, even though she knows there will be a price to pay. But most important of all, she also meets Kaisa, a huntress employed by the king, and it is Kaisa who truly awakens Ash's desires for both love and self-respect...Ash escapes a life with her grim and self-serving stepmother and finds her beloved one...
ASH is a fairy tale about possibility and recognizing the opportunities for change. From the deepest grief comes the chance for transformation.

Resenhas (4)

3 (Bom)

Releitura sáfica de Cinderela, sem grandes elementos.

O livro todo oscila entre ser médio e fraco, aí nos últimos 10 ou 15 porcento, ele fica bom e depois fofo e aí acaba.

O que o impede de ter sido mais agradável, ao meu ver, foi a falta de profundidade da protagonista. Na verdade, de todos os personagens.

As descrições das florestas e roupas são mais ricas do que as dos mundos internos das pessoas da história, então não consegui me conectar ou mesmo me importar muito com elas.