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Book Jacket:
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.
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.
REVIEW:
What
a lovely surprise this book is. When I saw this book, all I thought was
just another fairy tale retelling so I had very low
expectations coming in. I was right and then I was wrong. This book is set in the future with some bits of Sci-Fi. After reading it, I was happy to have been
wrong.
The book was just so FUN and it was so
easy to read. The setting, the characters and the not so hidden jabs at
the Cinderella fairy tale we all knew as a kid… I loved them all and it
hooked me right from the first page.
The
fairy tale setting has been overly done and yet, Meyer delivers them in
such a way that stays true to the story but never in the way that you
expect it. The slippers became a cyborg foot; her pumpkin coach is well a
vintage pumpkin, and the way she makes her entrance at the ball… just
priceless. This book gave the story a unique perspective that made it
such an entertaining read. Something I didn’t expect from a fairy tale
retelling.
As
for Cinder, our main character, she’s such a breath of fresh air. This
is a girl not waiting or even looking for a prince charming. All she
wants is to earn enough money to buy her own freedom to escape from her
stepmother. I loved how she never complained when the odds were against
her and how she made use of every misfortune into her advantage. She
never let the prejudice get to her and be all woe is me which made her
such an irresistible leading lady. My only complaint was the predictability of the story and the late reveal.
In the end, this book made me glad and I'll be following Ms. Marissa Meyer's work in the future.
Rating: 4/5
