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Ash Bramble Sarah Prineas Books

Whoever would have thought of making the Godmother the villain? That was brilliant.

How did Prineas come up with the idea of zapping everybody’s memory, occasionally multiple times, so that no one in the book knows their own histories or names? By the second half of the book, the main protagonist doesn’t even remember the first half of the story. That was brilliant.

What a great notion, making so many of the secondary characters who might have been bad guys into sympathetic characters – the stepsisters especially; even the stepmother by the end. So clever to show how these fundamentally decent people are being misshapen into petty tyrants by the way they’re all trapped in the Cinderella story. And Prineas pulled this off with just a line here and a line there. That was brilliant.

What an interesting stylistic choice, making Pin’s pov chapters first person present and Shoe’s pov chapters third person present. That actually worked for me – I didn’t even notice the shifts between first and third until I was halfway through the book.

Now I’m totally looking forward to the sequel. Which is based on Sleeping Beauty, evidently. I’m not aware of a lot of Sleeping Beauty retellings, but I’m fascinated to see what Sarah Prineas will do with this.


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Ash Bramble Sarah Prineas Books Reviews

Loved, loved, loved this book. Imaginative and compelling!
I was so excited about this book, are you kidding? A feminist re-telling? Heck! Yes! Except that's not it was. At all. This book follows a backstory-less heroine, Pin/Pen, and at the beginning you find out that she has no memories of her life before being a seamstress in the Godmother's fortress. I had such high hopes, but the lack of any memories means that you have no personality to connect with the main character, and when anyone says they love her, or they know her, it makes no sense because she doesn't even know. She just seems stubborn, and they use that word to describe her about fifteen times. The story itself is super predictable, and it took me more than a full month to get through. Needless to say, I didn't love it.
Wonderful book!
Fun, and sweet fairytale with a twist. Well written, with lovely characters with a bit of depth. Great teen novel, clean language but a good message.
I wasn’t fond of the story-telling method, and I often felt lost. But the concept was interesting, if convoluted at times.
This is not a typical fairy tale retelling. There are princes and princesses and fairy godmothers and magic kingdoms. But the fairy godmother is not who you think she is and the princess is not just waiting for her prince to come.

I generally come to novels with my own expectations and desires, a demand to be entertained and a hope that maybe I'll learn something. Ash & Bramble delivers on all of that. It's the sort of novel that provides a unique perspective while still delivering a kick-ass story full of sword fights and adventure and occasional party dresses about characters I cared about and rooted for. It has delightful little gifts to the reader, moments of the familiar mixed cleverly into something brand-new.

It's a book about story and a book about telling stories. Prineas 'gets' story and that, in the end, is what made this book such a fun and satisfying read for me. Definitely recommended.
DNF. Mostly the author didn't manage to interest me in the story. It should have been interesting, with characters struggling against the power of Story which is trying to force them into certain roles. But the flat writing and sense of obvious authorial machinations - that goes with the territory of the premise, I know - but it was not subtle enough. Or maybe not obvious enough. Somehow, it didn't work.

Also there were two first person narrators and I couldn't tell them apart.
Pratchett has covered the same sort of thing in WITCHES ABROAD, which I thought was better done. Certainly very different. The anime Princess Tutu has also.
Whoever would have thought of making the Godmother the villain? That was brilliant.

How did Prineas come up with the idea of zapping everybody’s memory, occasionally multiple times, so that no one in the book knows their own histories or names? By the second half of the book, the main protagonist doesn’t even remember the first half of the story. That was brilliant.

What a great notion, making so many of the secondary characters who might have been bad guys into sympathetic characters – the stepsisters especially; even the stepmother by the end. So clever to show how these fundamentally decent people are being misshapen into petty tyrants by the way they’re all trapped in the Cinderella story. And Prineas pulled this off with just a line here and a line there. That was brilliant.

What an interesting stylistic choice, making Pin’s pov chapters first person present and Shoe’s pov chapters third person present. That actually worked for me – I didn’t even notice the shifts between first and third until I was halfway through the book.

Now I’m totally looking forward to the sequel. Which is based on Sleeping Beauty, evidently. I’m not aware of a lot of Sleeping Beauty retellings, but I’m fascinated to see what Sarah Prineas will do with this.