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Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)

Marissa Meyer

Start date: May 1, 2016

Finish date: May 31, 2016

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Nov 05, 2015 Matthew rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, sci-fi, 2016, series, gr_awards_2015, young-adult, library

4 stars for this book (as it was not my favorite of the series).

5 stars for the series!

This was a very unique, creative, and well plotted adventure. I loved the characters and the relationships. The heroes and their stories were interesting and fun to follow. The villains were very despicable (yet, in some cases, you even feel sorry for them).

Throughout the series I was totally engaged. Even with the length of it, there was very little filler. Also, the author did a great job of tying events tog ...more

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Jul 15, 2013 Meghan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, read-in-2015, favorite-books

Winter by Marissa Meyer is the fourth and final book in The Lunar Chronicles series. Winter continues on where readers last left off with our main characters Cinder, Scarlett, and Cress while telling readers more about the character of Winter. Winter is a character in the series who readers have seen on and off throughout a good portion of the novels but for the first time she is taking on a main character role. Winter is a princess admired by the people regardless of the facial scars that have Winter by Marissa Meyer is the fourth and final book in The Lunar Chronicles series. Winter continues on where readers last left off with our main characters Cinder, Scarlett, and Cress while telling readers more about the character of Winter. Winter is a character in the series who readers have seen on and off throughout a good portion of the novels but for the first time she is taking on a main character role. Winter is a princess admired by the people regardless of the facial scars that have altered her appearance from many years ago. In fact, most of her people would argue that the scars don’t matter, she’s stunningly beautiful regardless. Princess Winter has been dealing with the main villain of The Lunar Chronicles more than anyone else, she knows more about her than anyone else, because the main villain is her step-mother Levana. When Winter crosses paths with the rest of our main characters she suddenly has a choice to make; should she back down and stick her normal life she has been living or should she stand up, start a revolution, take her rightful place on the thrown, and end a war that has divided the world that she lives in?

This was my most anticipated read of 2015. I have written it down on calendar when it was coming out, I had pre-ordered it months before, as soon as the release date was announced I ran to my laptop to pre-order it. Winter and I had an interesting struggle at first, starting with the fact that I did not even receive my copy until about a week after it actually came out, thank you Amazon for that one. When it got to my apartment it was damaged and we all know how I feel about damaged books, so off it went back into the mail. On November 15th I finally received my copy and sat down to read it. I tell you this not because I want you to hear all my struggles but because I want everyone to know going into reading this review how seriously I took this book. This is one of my favorite series of all time and I had extremely high hopes for this final novel.

It did not disappoint. Let’s start with the characters, shall we? Winter was above and beyond what I had expected her to be in the best ways possible. She was kind to a fault and given her upbringing that’s hard to be. She cares about her people with so much, with all that she has, that she lets her own mental health suffer. Winter quickly became one of my favorite characters in the series because of this novel. Meyer does an incredible job with character development throughout this series and it’s not just with Winter, it’s with all her main characters. Cinder, Scarlett, and Cress grew just as much if not more than Winter did in this novel. I have to applaud Meyer for what she has done with this series. In every single book not only would she focus on a new main character, but she would continue the journey of the other main characters at the same time. As a reader I have seen writers do this before and it usually makes for a long, drawn out story… that is not the case with Meyer and The Lunar Chronicles. The novels flow so effortlessly that I didn’t even consider how long they were or how many pages they were I just wanted to know what was going to happen and Winter is no exception to that.

I simply can’t talk about characters without discussing one of my favorites and who shines so brightly in this series conclusion, Jacin. I have a weakness for male characters who would do anything for the women that they love so it should come as no surprise to anyone that I freakin’ adore Jacin. He is fearless to a fault when it comes to protecting Winter. I have never wanted two characters to get together more in a novel than I did for Jacin and Winter. That’s saying something because as readers, we all have those characters that we ship right away. What was so amazing, in my opinion, about Jacin though was that he wasn’t just there to be a romantic interest for Winter he was his own human being. Learning about him as a person, separate from Winter, was one of my favorite parts of this concluding novel.

Winter was not just an amazing novel, it was an amazing concluding novel. I specify that because I have noticed, specifically with Young Adult novels, that sometimes the conclusion novel falls flat. Meyer not only didn’t let her conclusion fall flat but she succeeded in creating, in my opinion, the best novel in The Lunar Chronicles series. Winter’s story didn’t just conclude, every main character’s story concluded. I didn’t feel like one character was the main focus at all, even though the novel is called Winter. I felt that it was a journey that all of our main characters were on together and completing together. I cried more than once during Winter and took longer to read it than I should have simply because I didn’t want it to end, I wanted these characters and this world to go on for as long as it possibly could.

The Lunar Chronicles series is a series that will go down in history for me as one of my favorite series of all time. I am always recommending the series to any of my friends who read and even those who don’t read. I will give these books to my children to read, someday when I have children. I think Meyer created a world unlike any other I have ever read before and it is because of this that she has made her way to my list of authors that no matter what they come out with, no matter what their novels are about, I will them up instantly without a regret in the world. Winter was an amazing novel, an amazing conclusion to a wonderful series, and simply put- all around magical.
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This book was FREAKING AWSOME!! I was a bit worried at first considering the page length but it definitely lived up to my expectation. I started Winter in November, but had to stop reading because I realized I had Fairest and wanted to read that first and then I got kinda side tracked. (Blame it on the review copies!) Then I finally started reading it this weekend and wooosh! Finished it in two days! Fair warning, this is going to be a very ...more

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