Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) in 2015 Reading Challenge [Closed]

Mar 17, 2015 Eslem rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

5 yıldızı gönül rahatlığıyla veriyorum çünkü sonuna kadar hak etti. bir şeyler yazma konusundaki üşengeçliğimi bir kenara atıp cinder için bir kitap yorumu yazıcam. HEM DE İLK KİTAP YORUMUMU!

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May 08, 2014 Juuli rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, young-adult, 5-stars, science-fiction, amnesia, made-me-cry, abused-heroine, cyborg, first-in-the-series, 2014

I believe this is the best book I've read this year. Never thought I'd like this so much, but the world and the characters were just so amazing. ...more

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Aug 21, 2014 Jodez rated it really liked it

Shelves: iggppbc, pop-sugar-challenge-2015, sfpc-2015, book-riot-challenge-2015

Cinder - Marissa Meyer I have tried to write this review multiple times now, yet the words just wont come... so let me start by saying I just loved Cinder, even with its downsides.

Injured in, what she is told was, an accident which killed her parents, Cinder was adopted by a scientist, Garan, who soon after contracts the fatal plague, Letumosis. Cinder grows up in a world fraught with the plague and a prejudice towards cyborgs, humans with cybernetic implants. Raised by a woman who despises, Cinder - Marissa Meyer I have tried to write this review multiple times now, yet the words just wont come... so let me start by saying I just loved Cinder, even with its downsides.

Injured in, what she is told was, an accident which killed her parents, Cinder was adopted by a scientist, Garan, who soon after contracts the fatal plague, Letumosis. Cinder grows up in a world fraught with the plague and a prejudice towards cyborgs, humans with cybernetic implants. Raised by a woman who despises, and even blames her, Cinder is sent to work as a mechanic to fund her Step-Mother's lifestyle.

Cinder is a natural mechanic, with the added bonus of her implants which allow her to search and bring up the plans and schematics of everything she repairs. Her skills are so good that her reputation precedes her and the young imperial prince, Kai, seeks her services to repair his robot. Thus beginning a series of events that turn Cinder's world upside down.

I've seen other reviewers complain about Cinder's actions in regards to visiting her ill sister, or injecting the young boy with the cure... We need to remember that Cinder is a teen, rational thought doesn't always come so easily, especially when emotions are involved.

Peony was the only person in the world to treat Cinder like a person, even an equal. This loss would have been incredibly hard for Cinder, the urge to visit her would have been far greater than any concern over how the disease can be spread. Similarly when Cinder went gave the cure to the young boy, she was distraught, too late to save the person who mattered the most to her. Seeing someone she knew, if only in passing when his mother wasn't looking, Cinder reacted to her emotions and gave a second chance at life to someone who otherwise would soon die.

I'm not sure if any of this was intentional, but I particularly liked the setting of New Beijing, given that the story of Cinderella originated in China around the 9th century. Cinder's too small foot tying in with the Chinese tradition of foot binding, particularly within wealthy households, and the perceived beauty of small feet.

I love that Cinder was an outcast, a misfit, who was often mistreated just for having implants she didn't ask to have. She worked in a male dominated occupation, Kai's reaction to her being the mechanic seems to suggest he expected someone older and male.

My biggest issue is that it was just too predictable... part of which can be attributed to the fact that the story of Cinderella is so well known. The rest, as someone who isn't an author, I can only imagine how hard it is to hide the significant plot points without leaving them out completely. Adding it on at the end can seem like an after thought, yet adding it into the story, can lead to predictability, as happened here.

Aside from that, I think Meyer did an exceptional job of re-imagining an old fairy tale.

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Sep 13, 2016 Becky Jones rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I read this book as required reading for a university module in children's literature.
As it is marketed as YA (me being closer to 40) I wasn't expecting to like it in the least. But, I didn't just like it, I loved it.
The first few chapters were quite slow and had it not being required reading I may have given up on it, but I'm so glad I didn't. It quickly transformed into a face paced page turner, and now I'm going to have to read the rest of the books in the series.
A brilliant post-apocalyptic ...more

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May 18, 2016 ktouton rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: dnf

I tried to read this book. Based on the synopsis of the book, it seemed right up my alley. It is a cross between dystopian and a classic fairy tale.

I told my husband I couldn't decided if I liked the book or not. Just when I thought I didn't like it there was a change in the plot that would make me think the book was ok. My husband reminded me that life is too short to read books you don't like. I made it thru about 1/4 of the book. I then skipped ahead to about the last 1/4 and tried to read an ...more

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Mar 29, 2014 Vanessa Jahns rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: guilty-pleasure

I really really like this book. It's an incredibly easy and fast read, yet a lot happens so it's entertaining as well. I figured out the big secret pretty early on into the book; but I'm not holding that against the author or the book at all since I'm a 27 year old reading a YA book. I've read some reviews where people are upset or think it doesn't make any sense that cyborgs encounter such a stigma in Cinder's world, but I think it's very relevant to the current societal standards of ours. Anyw ...more

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