Cinder

Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

400 pages

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2012 by Feiwel & Friends.

ISBN:
978-1-4668-0011-3
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4 stars (23 reviews)

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reviewed Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder Review

4 stars

3.75 stars Cinder was pretty good, a fun and interesting book. Nothing mind blowing, but I really enjoyed it. Not sure if I'll get the rest of the series though. I do like how the ending wasn't just "They kithed and lived happily ever after (:"

Review of 'Cinder' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Hace mucho tiempo que leí este libro y casi no recordaba nada, y me alegro de que haya sido así porque ha sido genial volver a vivirlo todo casi como si fuera la primera vez. Sí, la historia es algo predecible pero es que FEELS FEELS FEELS.

Me he propuesto leer un libro de la saga por mes para terminar la saga antes de que acabe el año Y ESTOY DESEANDO LEER SCARLET.

Gracias por existir, Marissa Meyer

reviewed Cinder by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

Review of 'Cinder' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I don't know what I was hoping for. To be honest, I was excited by the premise: a cyborg Cinderella story. Androids, the future, why people living on the moon! Fascinating!

Unfortunately, Cinder lacks subtlety. It's a good story, in the sense that I think Transformers good as a popcorn conveyance, but it doesn't have lasting appeal. There are no strong surprises, and the surprises that do exist are ruined, in large part, because the author foreshadows an event so strongly that she practically gives the surprises away. More than once I found myself saying, "I saw that coming."

And this speaks nothing of the setting. China, in the future. A world that has seen its fourth world-war. Cramped living quarters, vague hints of an economic collapse... but the settings don't live up to the action. I didn't feel that I was in China, even a futuristic China. The few …

reviewed Cinder by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

Review of 'Cinder' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I was a touch wary of this. A retelling of Cinderella where Cinderella was a cyborg and a mechanic, set in a Beijing of the future with a weird (potentially dystopian?) government, moon colonies, and also a mysterious (potentially apocalyptic?) disease? It sounded like too many things put together. How on earth could something like this actually turn out to be worth reading?

Apparently, like this.

I love fairy tale retellings. One of the things I love about them is the feeling I get when I know what is going to happen, but I have no clue how. I love the process of ticking off those boxes of the basic Cinderella story. In any given retelling, you generally have a deserving but not high class girl, an evil stepmother, some questionable stepsisters, a ball, a prince (ideally one worth winning), a lost slipper, a fairy godmother, and a coach …

reviewed Cinder by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

Review of 'Cinder' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I really enjoyed this book. Its kinda a re-telling of cinderella but with cyborgs and scifi. Its a really neat concept (and I personally never wanted to be a cyborg more, even though they are so hated).

I loved all the characters, they all had that right sort of believability.

I would highly recommend this to everyone. I had a very hard time stopping when I got to work.

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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Science fiction
  • Stepfamilies, fiction
  • Extraterrestrial beings, fiction