Goodreads 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.
Goodreads Summary:
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.
Goodreads Summary:
In this third book in Marissa Meyer's bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth.
Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's being forced to work for Queen Levana, and she's just received orders to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.
When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is splintered. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price than she'd ever expected. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai, especially the cyborg mechanic. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.
Goodreads Summary:
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood friend--the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to be and she's been undermining her stepmother's wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to miss this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's national bestselling Lunar Chronicles series.
My Thoughts On The Whole Series:
Instead of reviewing each book I am decided to review the whole series. Part of this is due to how long ago I read this series and part because I think on the whole the series is better than breaking it down book by book. I like the fairytwists that each book takes on four different fairy tales. First we have Cinder, an obvious twist on Cinderella. Scarlet is a take on Red Riding Hood. Cress is a new take on Rapunzel (I was least familiar with this story). And lastly Winter which is a take on Snow White. I have not read any of the novellas in this series. I don't generally read those supplementary stories in a series. Each female lead is her own person, which honestly can be difficult to maintain different and strong voices when dealing with so many story lines. The common story is about Cinder, the long lost princess from Luna. She was sent to Earth when her murdery Aunt wanted the kingdom to herself. She tried to kill Cinder but that failed. Cinder has to fight for her freedom from a spot of trouble on earth and the freedom of her people from the crazy Levana. Scarlet, Cress, and Winter all play a part in the story.
I did find it a little annoying that a love story had to be involved with each character. I get that the original fairy tales all had love stories but it would be nice if that wasn't something that was still being pushed. Which leads me to my biggest complaint. Cinder, this strong independent woman at the end of the series makes a lame choice about her role for the future. I don't want to spoil it, so I will just say that it was disappointing. I was really liking the series until the very end. I wish wish wish it had a different ending.
Overall, I would recommend this series to YA fans, those who like a little Sci-Fi with their YA, and fans of dystopian books.
While writing this review I was listening to an episode of Gilmore Girls. Yes, I am marathoning it.
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