Book Review: Cinder

                                                              October 4th, 2013

Odd one out. People are scared of things that they are not- things that are beyond their knowledge. Are you the odd or the same?

Book Review: Cinder
Author: Marissa Meyer


Summary: 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 is the mechanic of New Beijing.  And as the summary suggests, she is a lucky girl -more like cyborg- that gets to meet the Prince.

Prince Kai faces the death of the Emperor and is the new one in its monarchy. The Lunar Queen Levana is willing to create an alliance with New Beijing if Kai is to marry her. If the Prince falls in love unlikely with our
Cinder, what's to happen?

Secrets exchange hands as the girl learns about who she really is. The story follows the tale of Cinderella. But Lihn Cinder is not your Cinderella. As much as she is a servant, she's many other things. Lunars are people from the moon. Manipulative in many minds of humans, they're scary and forbidden to escape from Luna as fugitives.

When her sister dies from the plague spreading around a lot more is to come. This story blends adventure with romance and science fiction. Everything is different in this narrative of a teenage "mutant".

In the disease-stricken metropolis (like many other stories) fans are created in a world that Marissa Meyer spins out.

I really liked this book and would read it all over again if I had been given the time.

Overall Rating: 8.7/10

Signed,

Ivy