Author: Marissa Meyer
Publication Date: January 3rd 2012
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Genre: YA Sci-Fi, fantasy
Pages: 387
Rating: 5 out of 5
Synopsis: (Via GoodReads)
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.
This book is loosely based around Cinderella, but don't let that stop you. The only similar things between Cinder and Cinderella is a mean step-mom, a prince, and a ball. Everything else is completely different and amazingly creative. The main character, Cinder, is an empowered person who does what she wants, except for things dealing with her step-mom, and she is just an amazing character. The prince, Kai, is the regular male lead in a book, but that does not make the book less interesting.
Cinder is set in New Beijing, a futuristic dystopian world, and it is ruled by the king. The citizens are mixed with cyborgs and robots, and think very low of them. Cinder is a cyborg that is friends with her family's robot, Iko, and Cinder is a mechanic to the people who need help. That is how her and Prince Kai meet. At first Kai does not know Cinder is a cyborg and that makes the reader want to stay and read to see how he reacts when he does find out. The story line has so many twists and turns that there is never really a boring part. The main problem, that was my favorite in this book, was with the Lunars. Lunars are the moon people, and the queen wants to marry the prince and rule the world. I loved the Lunars background and what they added to the story.
I loved this book and will be posting a review of the second book, Scarlet, very soon. I recommend this book to anyone who loved the idea of Cinderella and for those who really love fantasy and sci-fi books.
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