Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) in The Wide Web of Friends in YA Books

Jul 15, 2013 Meghan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Having just finished up Cress literally five minutes ago, I thought now would be a good time to write my full review of Cinder. I had picked up Cinder simply because I had heard a lot of buzz about it on Goodreads. I wasn't completely moved by the plot summary but I figured why not give it a try?

I am so glad I did! I love the character of Cinder so much. I am a huge science fiction fan and I am also a huge fairy tale fan, you see why this book series is perfect for me. I loved the idea of Kai a ...more

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Feb 18, 2014 Jolien rated it it was amazing

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first time review:(read from june 6-9 2014)
I couldn't stop reading. It was that good.
It was so much better than I expected it to be. It's definitely a new favorite. And now I'm going to read scarlet I don't care that I have exams. I just need to read it.

Reread: november 12-18 2015
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Feb 11, 2014 Molly Mortensen rated it really liked it

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Oddly enough the book I recommend most right now is Cinder, where Cinderella is a cyborg. Seriously that’s the plot, but it’s a good book honest.

The market is flooded with fairy tale retellings, and I almost didn’t read Cinder, but it looked popular (and I found it on sale for $2) so I decided to give it a shot and I’m glad that I did.

Cinder is set after the fourth world war, where the world is divided into six kingdoms. Cinder lives in the capital of New Beijing. Cinder is a mechanic working i Oddly enough the book I recommend most right now is Cinder, where Cinderella is a cyborg. Seriously that’s the plot, but it’s a good book honest.

The market is flooded with fairy tale retellings, and I almost didn’t read Cinder, but it looked popular (and I found it on sale for $2) so I decided to give it a shot and I’m glad that I did.

Cinder is set after the fourth world war, where the world is divided into six kingdoms. Cinder lives in the capital of New Beijing. Cinder is a mechanic working in New Beijing. The crown prince, Kai comes to her to have his android fixed. She keeps it a secret from him that she’s a cyborg, because cyborgs are looked down upon and have few rights.

Yes, Cinder has an evil step-mother, her legal guardian who practically owns her and two step-sisters, but only one is evil and she’s really more bratty than evil. And of course there is a ball coming up, which both the stepsisters are preparing for, but that’s where the Cinderella plotline ends.

The plague that has swept the globe has come to New Beijing and Prince Kai’s father, the emperor, has been diagnosed with the disease. There’s no cure and it has a 100% mortality rate. Desperate to combat the disease, the government issued the cyborg draft. Cyborgs, considered less than human, are used as unwilling test subjects.

As if that wasn’t enough for the young prince to deal with, the evil queen of the moon is threatening war if her demands are not met, and one of those demands is to marry the prince. Her spaceships aren’t even her biggest threat. Lunars, the people who colonized the moon, have evolved into a separate race with the ability to create glamours and bend others to their will.

The Lunar Chronicles has excellent world building, an interesting plot, and good characters. (My favorite character is one of the minor ones, Iko, an android with a personality as the result of faulty programming.) A couple of the reveals which were supposed to be a surprising twist were rather predictable in this series, but it didn’t hurt the overall story for me.

Cinder 9/10 stars
Scarlet 7/10 stars
Cress 8/10 stars

I’d recommend all three books, but I have no idea which books to compare them to, because they’re just so unique. Maybe dystopian, because the main plot features a world in chaos and characters that are trying to make things better.
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Feb 10, 2014 Chelsea B rated it really liked it

Actual rating: 4.25
Cinder was so good! The reason that I couldn't give it 5 stars was because it took a little while to pick up. I felt at the beginning it still felt a little cliche, but that was only because it was still setting up for the end. I have a good feeling about the rest of the series! I think the rest of the series will be 5 stars. I loved the characters and am looking forward to the rest of the series! ...more

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Nov 21, 2013 cindy ♡ rated it it was amazing

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Cinder is a futuristic re-envisioning of the classic story of Cinderella in which Cinder is a cyborg mechanic.

I absolutely fell in love with this book and wondered why I didn't read it sooner! This book is really different from the ones I'm used to reading. Most of the time, I only like to read books told in first POV present, but this book gave me a whole new perspective on that. When I first saw the book, I wasn't that interested in it since it's more futuristic with cyborgs and newer technolo ...more

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Dec 18, 2013 Krizza Mae Martin rated it it was amazing

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This story is fine. I was hooked because all those who read this kinda predicted what would happen in the story. But I was amazed because despite that fact, it never got boring. I think this is not a retelling of Cinderella, this book is just inspires by that story. And I really liked the characters personalities. Wehn the character should be hated, you will. When the character should be loved, you will. They are not a bunch of immature people and Cinder's character reminds me of Anne Hathaway o ...more

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Aug 06, 2013 Emily rated it it was amazing

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i just have to say a big, really BIG yes, to this amazing dystopian story. i just fell in love with the characters too fast, and everything was so good i'm not doing a big review because i know a lot of you have already read Cinder but, if you don't, you should.

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