One night, the mysterious and sinister fairy prince Sidhean (pronounced Sheen) finds Ash wandering through the woods on an enchanted path that connects Ash's new home to her old one, where her mother was buried. Ash wishes that fairies will take her away to their world where all her dreams will come true just like she once wished as a little girl. Ash's sole source of comfort is reading fairy tales by firelight each night. The stepmother also declares that in order to earn her keep, Ash will serve as a servant in her home, as she has to lay off the rest of the staff because she can no longer afford to keep them. Soon after they move in though, Ash's father becomes gravely ill, and instead of allowing the Greenwitch to care for him, Ash's stepmother takes him to the city to be treated by their Philosophers, who bleed him and cause his death, as the Greenwich warned they would.Īfter her father's death, Ash's stepmother discovers he was deeply in debt, and sells Ash's childhood home to try and pay off some of his debts. Some time after Ash's mother dies, her father, a merchant, goes on a business trip and returns married to a woman with two daughters, the eldest of these is Ana who is Ash's age. The twist arrives when Ash falls in love with the King's respected huntress Kaisa, after she has made a commitment to dark fairy prince Sidhean.Īisling (pronounced Ash-ling), known as Ash to her friends, is a teenage girl whose mother was once apprenticed to the local Greenwitch. The novel centers around the familiar story of Cinderella, her father recently remarried, and lamenting the misery of her new life with stepsisters and a stepmother. It is a reworking of the Cinderella fairy tale that reimagines the title character, Ash, as a lesbian teenager. The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance.Ash is a young adult fantasy lesbian novel by Malinda Lo first published in 2009. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever.

As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission.

Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly.

To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. The people's survival hangs in the balance. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Nature is out of balance in the human world.

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