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Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)

Marissa Meyer

Start date: November 15, 2015

Finish date: December 1, 2015

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Dec 17, 2013 Laura rated it it was amazing

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Plot:
Cinder has a plan, or at least an idea of a plan. As her and her rag-tag group of rebels, both from Earth and Luna, come up with a plan to kill Levana and put the crown on Cinder’s head, as the rightful heir to the throne. Unfortunately, they need a way onto Luna, and the only way to do that is to have Kai make his way to the moon and marry the current Luna Queen. Hiding on the ship, Levana spots them quickly, which leaves our heroes hiding and separated on the moon.

Meanwhile, Winter was l Plot:
Cinder has a plan, or at least an idea of a plan. As her and her rag-tag group of rebels, both from Earth and Luna, come up with a plan to kill Levana and put the crown on Cinder’s head, as the rightful heir to the throne. Unfortunately, they need a way onto Luna, and the only way to do that is to have Kai make his way to the moon and marry the current Luna Queen. Hiding on the ship, Levana spots them quickly, which leaves our heroes hiding and separated on the moon.

Meanwhile, Winter was losing it. Beautiful Winter, even prettier than Levana despite the scars on her face, refused to use her lunar manipulation which drove her to mental instability. In love with Jacin, someone she could never be with because of her status, and sweet Scarlet who called her crazy and told her that her cousin was still alive and coming back for her throne. Knowing her step-mother hates her, Winter joins the rebels (bring Jacin back to Cinder’s side), and helps raise an army for Cinder to fight Levana. With a wedding and a coronation, Cinder, Kai, Cress, Throne, Scarlet, Wolf, Winter, Jacin and Iko must work together in order to defeat the evil Luner Queen, put Cinder on the throne, and maybe confess their feelings as our four lovers (minus Iko) pair are together to end it all in this series finale.

Thoughts:
Marissa Meyer ended the series - in both a good and a bad way. After re-reading the entire series, I was pretty pumped to finish the series and find out what happened to our beloved new-age asian inspired fairy tale heroes. Where Meyer delivered, they also let me down quite a bit throughout the story. The most noticeable one is the length, as this book really draws out the entire extrusion. Divided into different books, similar to the other series, it just felt like the characters had months to chill on the moon before the wedding, despite only actually having a few days. Adding to the length were the little burst of action, followed by long chapters of tedious dialogue between characters that had no relationship - Scarlet and Winter, Cress and Jacin, Cinder and Wolf. Like, Meyer made these strong couples that form love bonds after knowing each other for a week, but barely have them together. Even in Winter’s story, Meyer spends more time with Winter and Scarlet than they do Winter and Jacin. Which is the second major fault of this story - the characters are never together. Meyer constantly has them split up into different teams, only to have a heartfelt reunion between them, before they get split up again. It makes it hard to believe this rag-tag gang are actually the “friends-but-more-like-family” troph when they really never see each other. Meyer truly wants us to believe that Scarlet and Cress are friends, despite never meeting each other, because they're both friends with Cinder, who also did not really spend that much time with Cinder. Truly, besides the love interests, the only people Cinder actually spent any time with is Thorne and Iko. As this book is supposed to take after Winter (Snow White), you really spent the entire book fast reading through Winter’s romance with Jacin (who does not deserve her), in order to get back to Cinder/someone in the gang’s adventure. The battle was written beautifully, so was the ending, so where Meyer really took their time getting there, it was definitely worth it in the end. With no epilogue chapter or “fives years later”, the actual last chapter felt rush, but I cannot blame Meyer for leaving a little mystery in their series, as they tied up the important loose ends, leaving us to believe that all our storybook heroes will have the happily ever afters they deserve. ...more

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Jan 03, 2014 Crystal rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, omg-why-would-you-do-that, omg-what-just-happened, marry-me-now, swoon, to-good-for-words, forever-re-read

I have no words to explain how good this book was. It was absolutely amazing. I just can't wrap my head around how an author can write a book as amazing as Winter was and as amazing as that whole series was. I loved it so much and wish there was so much more. ...more

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