Review: Eternal Love Rebirth
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2011
Daphne must overcome a Phoenix's reluctance to be reborn and thus makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to save her family, a silver ash tree and the village of Trevell, for the benefit of future generations.***Author Joss Llewelyn used John Oxenford's translation of "The Ash Tree" from a Welsh folk song as the basis for the main character, a silver ash tree.  His tale of self-sacrifice and greed is told through an ordinary woman's extraordinary sacrifice to save her family and the village of Trevell. Like most fairy tales, historical symbols, good versus evil, a heroine and life threatening situations are woven together to describe a magical place where the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.Daphne is a nineteen year old mother whose love and song reaches the ears of a nymph, serpent and Phoenix as the cycle of life is coming to an end. Her relationship with these mythical figures is told in great detail while other characters assume a more limited role.The ending is a mess of conflicted emotions. The heroine saves tree and village, averting war. But a husband lost his wife and a daughter lost her mother. Parallels may be drawn between this fairytale and real life situations where men and women die in the line of duty, leaving their loved ones behind.