Cinder by Marissa Meyer Published by Macmillan ISBN: 9781466800113
on January 3rd 2012
Genres: Young Adult, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Science Fiction
Pages: 400
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Synopsis
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
The people who countless times have recommended the Lunar Chronicles to me will be happy to hear I’ve finally started it! Finished Cinder very recently, and soon the rest of the series will arrive!
Let’s take a look at what interested me the most about Cinder.
New Beijing
The story takes place in a world after two more world wars since World War II, which was sufficiently awful. Things are slightly different, and like always, treaties have been made to ensure something like that doesn’t happen again. Cyborgs and androids are common and Cyborgs are regarded as mutations.
Very vivid imagery about how New Beijing is like, but since I don’t know a lot about asian culture, I’d have liked to see more about what has changed in terms of culture between now and then.
Smart book is smart
The books knows exactly how we think, and what to show us so we don’t get bored. Seriously, the pace is amazing. An important event happen, then you’re allowed to wonder, make your theories, flip pages, until you get to the next one, and with each one the tension keeps building until you get to the last one, and you don’t even know it but then you’re out of pages and BOOM, you’re logging into B&N to order the rest of the books XD.
In the middle of college craziness, Cinder was my sanity, and kept me turning pages, even though we all know the drift of Cinderella, and even though there is a stepmother, a prince, a ball, a dress and a foot, it’s not at all how you’d think it’d be.
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You should read Cinder if
- You like fairytale retellings
- You like light fantasy
- You’re a cyborg
- You’re not Lunar Queen Levana
- You read books
I loved Cinder, but wished it have been tweaked and made into a single. Everyone else loves the whole series but I think Cinder was the high-point and then the rest of the series lost me. I felt the same way about Twilight too-could have added two more chapters to the first book and called it good, lol!
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I’d have to get back to you on that once I finish the series XD But I do agree with you on Twilight.
I just finished this book yesterday and I really don’t know why it took me so long to get to it! I absolutely loved this book, especially the world it was set in, and I really liked the character of Cinder (although I had worked out the twist about Cinder that is revealed at the end near the start of the book, and don’t know how she didn’t figure it out herself!). I already really want to read the next book!
I’m glad you enjoyed this too 🙂
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XD I agree it was pretty obvious. It was so obvious halfway I started wondering if maybe that was the thing, that I was wrong. But I did enjoy her reactions to the revelations!
Cinder is such a good book haha – I kinda forgot how much I loved it until I read your post!
I hope you do get to read Scarlet as well – I have yet to read it myself! xD
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I’ll tell you how I liked it when I get to it!