The Lesbian Cinderella
Originally posted at Uncreated Conscience.
Ash by Malinda Lo
If any of you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been waiting (for what seems like forever) for Malinda Lo’s ASH to be delivered to me from Amazon. ASH arrived at long last yesterday and I devoured the book in one sitting.
This review comes in two parts: a review of the book itself and a few thoughts on what this book meant to me emotionally: as a bisexual woman, as a person of biracial Asian descent, and my slight crush on the author whom I have been, um, online stalking ever since I heard about this book. (I’m not scary, I swear!)
ASH first came to my attention when buzz went about the YA blogosphere about the so-called “lesbian Cinderella”. It was garnering good critical reviews from book bloggers and I liked that a novel-a young adult novel-with queer themes was being so well-received. Not that young adult novels don’t deal with LGBT themes at all, but like other “minority” books, sometimes the story is all about the “issues” and not about, well, just the people. (Please see: my dislike of most Asian-American protagonists.)
ASH is a story about a girl recovering from grief and finding the will and desire to carry on.
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