Author: Marissa Meyer
Publisher: Puffin Books
Publication Date: January 5th 2012
Part of A Series?: Yes (1 of 4 of the Lunar Chronicles)
I Got A Copy Through: I bought one!
Blurb Description: 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.
**MY REVIEW**
Can I just say CALLED IT? And can I also say so NOT pleased
that I called it.
Let me tell you my story of Cinder, though. Cinder released
in 2012 (was that REALLY 4 YEARS ago?), as many of you no doubt already know. Cinder was also pretty much
always available at my local bookstore, I just never thought it very necessary
to go ahead and pick it up. And then came the next few book is the series, and
it was just something that was always there, like L.J.Smith’s The Vampire
Diaries or Allie Condie’s Matched, that I never picked up.
And then came the bookstagram and twitter hype over the
finale- Winter, and then I knew I just had to have this book. Regardless of the
fact that I’d never truly been interested in the series, I had to have all of
them. How convenient it was also that all the books I needed were also just
there. And so I bought them. All of them, and here we are.
Which brings me back to CALLED IT.
From the first moment that we receive just a little
backstory on the Lunars, I knew how the book would end. I was a hundred percent
certain, and I was right. Of course the prince found her, a cyborg in the
markets of the city and she was so ‘easy’ to talk to; how being with her just
felt natural. And then the most coveted man in all the kingdom just happens to
ask a mechanic to a ball. Sigh. So Cinderella. And that wouldn't have been a problem...
Except I wanted it to be more. I wanted there to be more politics,
I wanted there to be more of a possible resistance from Earth, I wanted the
Crown Prince of the Commonwealth to be just a little more diabolical and I even
wanted Levana to not be so transparent.
All in all, I don’t think I Scarlet is going to be my next
read, but I will definitely be getting back to the series. I guess that this
storyline is just way too done. Not to mention that Cinderella is not my
favourite Disney princess.
POINTS FOR: Kai,
Peony, The fact that Cinder is a badass mechanic, ANDROIDS, Comm systems and
all the other cool technology, Torin (because YAY!)
POINTS AGAINST: Predictable
storyline, Cinderella with the evil stepmother and stepsister, Levana, Dr.
Erland (because Um. Weird Vibes)
All in all, I’m just hoping the series gets to be a bit more
than the first book!
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