Granted, she was better in this book, but still not enough to really see her strengths, and that made me a little upset. As much as I wanted to like her, and her relationship with Thorne, it all comes back to her inevitable swoony-ness. But I still loved her character, and how she didn’t coddle Winter like some of them did. I LOVE Scarlet, but she doesn’t get as many chapters as Cinder or Cress or Winter, which made me a little mad. (Her cyborg abilities are pretty darn awesome too. That is, a sassy, empathetic, willing-to-do-anything-to-further-the-cause type of girl that steals the show in every scene. If you mixed Katniss and Tris, you’d get someone resembling Cinder. Cinder is arguably the main heroine of the storyline, and I love her. Now for the review! Characters: Cinder: 4.8 stars. It had basically everything I look for in a book: Fantasy, romance, strong female leads, strong male leads, hate-able villain, fairy-tale mashup, and a surprisingly complex plot that ties in to all four fairy-tales perfectly. I finished the Lunar Chronicles about a week ago, and absolutely loved it. Ooohhh, I’m becoming quite the Marissa Meyer fan. Even Winter, the new female hero here, who at first seems like she's too much weakened by madness, shows that it's caused by her strong resolve not to use her Lunar gift of manipulation against others she'd rather have reoccurring violent hallucinations than be like her stepmother, Levana. All female characters remain strong and at the center of the series. Each of the stories adds a fairy-tale couple, so expect four passionate-reunion-style kisses and a few other smooches mixed in. There's also a near-drowning, bio warfare, and people shot at random in a town square. Wounds are serious and almost kill main characters. Numerous times friends turn on friends and stab or shoot them because their minds are being controlled. It's a nastier business with scary, genetically enhanced soldiers who partially eat their enemies and enemies who can control minds and make whole waves of oncoming opposition turn on each other with guns and knives. All of Luna is at war by the end of this 800-plus-pager. Reading the prequel Fairest, written between Cress and Winter, isn't essential, but it definitely puts the motivations of evil Queen Levana of Luna (the moon) in perspective before readers dig into this Snow White reimagining. You'll need to read the first three - Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress - to keep up. Parents need to know that Winter is the finale of Marissa Meyer's bestselling Lunar Chronicles series that features major sci-fi twists on well-known fairy tales. A forced kiss by manipulation.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. There's a near-drowning and a wolf killed. Heartless onlookers watch executions in the throne room. A disease kills a handful quickly after it's unleashed as bio warfare. Main characters are taken prisoner and tortured one loses a finger and is kept in a cage for Lunars to look at. People are shot in a town square at random, and a woman close to the main characters is made to break her own fingers before being shot. It's a nastier business with scary, genetically enhanced soldiers that partially eat their enemies and enemies that can control minds and make whole waves of oncoming opposition turn on each other with guns and knives. A whole moon must go to war before book's end.
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