Book Review- Scarlet

                                                                                                                          October 7th, 2013

You choose to be the hunter or the hunted.

SPOILERS! Read at your own expense.
Book Review- Scarlet
Author: Marissa Meyer


I have finished yet another book in the Lunar Chronicles. This book is out to get you. With even more adventure than the first one gives, I like the characters much more.

Summary: The fates of Cinder and Scarlet collide as a Lunar threat spreads across the Earth...
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.

Instead of just getting the view of Cinder, we also have Scarlet Benoit. And not just focusing on New Beijing, we go to the outskirts of Paris, France. Though in science fiction a lot has changed the surroundings.
Cinder meets a new friend, a captain with a space craft. That isn't to be quite messed with. 

I really liked this book because it has all the perfect elements. 

Wolf in this book has the actually literal wolfish features. With pointed canines and a different battling style, he has made a name for himself. (A side story: The Queen's Army can be found on Google if you search for epub.)

Scarlet's a girl on a farm. Nothing seems to go wrong for her most of the time, other than in the case of some unwilling customer paying for their farm-fresh vegetables. 

Prince Kai is even more doubtful than he used to be. To be honest with everything, I think he's even more pathetic than he was in the first book before he became emperor. Foreign affairs make life very hard; that much I have learned.

Cinder is even more of a rebel and fugitive than she was in the first book. With bad-ass tranquilizers installed into her cyborg arm, she's ready. Already haven escaped her jail cell, she escapes the prison itself. 

Queen Levana. What's to say about her that'll put her into a better light? I'm not even sure myself. Isolated and very hostile, she will not stop at ANYTHING. Yeah, that Levana in a nutshell- not literally of course. (That would be very funny.)

This book packs the action of only a few days into the needs of a full book giving extra detail to everything essential. 

Overall Rating: 9.2/10

Signed,
Ivy