Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)

Marissa Meyer

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 December 2011
Pages
400
ISBN
9780141340135

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)

Marissa Meyer

This is not the fairytale you remember. But it’s one you won’t forget.

A forbidden romance. A deadly plague. Earth’s fate hinges on one girl …

CINDER, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. She’s reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s sudden illness. But when her life becomes entwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she finds herself at the centre of a violent struggle between the desires of an evil queen - and a dangerous temptation.

Cinder is caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal. Now she must uncover secrets about her mysterious past in order to protect Earth’s future.

This is not the fairytale you remember. But it’s one you won’t forget.

Review

A teenage cyborg mechanic called Cinder. A robotic sidekick cuter than R2-D2. The future city of New Beijing. A strange new world where the humans must ally against an untrustworthy lunar race. A handsome prince. A dangerous plague. A missing Lunar royal heir. And yes, a glamorous ball, a glass slipper (of sorts) and an evil stepmother and stepsister. Cinder is a bewitching and engrossing sci-fi retelling of the familiar Cinderella fairytale, and hands-down one of the best books I will read this year (an early call, I know).

Sixteen-year-old Cinder works as a mechanic in the busy market area of New Beijing, toiling over other people’s robots, and trying to keep her own cyborg identity hidden. Her home life is an unhappy one; her stepmother takes the money she earns, and does nothing to hide her distaste for her adopted daughter. Comfort comes in the form of Iko, her robotic companion, and Linh Peony, the younger and nicer of her two stepsisters. When Peony falls ill with the deadly letumosis illness, on the very day that Cinder comes into contact with heir to the throne Prince Kai, Cinder is drawn into the dangerous world of palace history, interplanetary politics and potential romance.

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Meyer (pictured above) does a fabulous job of mashing together and twisting the fairytale elements with the futuristic setting. The elaborate setting of the New Beijing metropolis, the unfamiliar technology, and the politics of an imagined new world order, are presented effortlessly to the reader, who is left to enjoy this absorbing and strange story.

[[leanne-hall-pic]]Leanne Hall is a children’s bookseller at Readings Carlton, and a writer of young adult fiction. Her novel

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