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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

Marissa Meyer

Start date: January 2, 2016

Finish date: January 31, 2016

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May 11, 2017 Kayla Krantz rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, romance, new-adult-young-adult-favorites, thriller, sci-fi, marissa-meyer

From the very first page, I was enraptured with Cinder’s world. Cinder isn’t just a girl, she’s a gifted mechanic…and a cyborg with a hidden past. Living under the oppression of her stepmother, Adri, Cinder’s life is filled with chores until one day Prince Kai comes to her booth in need of her help with his personal android. From there, Cinder’s life begins to change though for better or for worse, it’s unclear.

I give this book 5/5 stars but if there is ever a way to rate it higher, I would glad ...more

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Aug 31, 2016 Crisanda rated it liked it

Shelves: great-debuts, ought-to-be-a-movie, fantasy, retellings, young-adult, 2016, new-author, book-boyfriend

Cinder started off without much promise. At first, I'd been curious. Cinderella as a cyborg? I thought it was a mad idea that could have gone either way. But once I started reading, I became increasingly confused. Cinder was supposedly a cyborg - part man, part machine - yet there were references which suggested that her brain character have been partly android too. So just how human was she? There were too many questions. In addition to that, there was a deathly disease and aliens added to the ...more

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