Summary:

In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.

The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King’s Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash’s capacity for love—and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.

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.

Anna’s Thoughts:

There are so many different types of books; books that scare you, bore you, challenge you, make you think, scare the pants off of you, and so many more. Then there are books that eventually in the end somehow change you. There are books that are so beautifully written and so gracefully told that you are unsure as to whether they were actually written by a human in this lifetime at all. I have never read a book like this, until now. There is not one thing about Ash that I would change, it’s characters are absolutely amazing, it’s plot is so fresh and told so wonderfully that you aren’t even aware while reading it that it’s a re-telling of anything that ever existed before this author wrote it down. I have read so many different types of books in my life, the ones mentioned above, ya, children’s books, adult books, sci-fi, fantasy, reference, art books, fairytale collections, and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that Ash is by far the most fantastic, most beautifully written book that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. In fact, I think I may have just spoiled the rest of my to be read list because I don’t know how any other book will ever live up to how outstanding it is. It is one-hundred percent, no questions asked, pure magic.