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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

Marissa Meyer

Start date: September 1, 2021

Finish date: September 30, 2021

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Nov 05, 2017 Dr. Andy rated it really liked it

Shelves: reread, audio-narrators-i-love, read-2019, read-2017, read-2014

Reread 2019: RTC

I read this book as part of a group read for The Booket List on Facebook.

Cinder is a cyborg and talented mechanic who runs a booth at the local market for repairs. By chance, she meets Prince Kaito and they start a precarious friendship. When Cinder's sister Peony falls sick with leutomosis, she is sent to be a volunteer for the cyborg draft to find a cure. However, Cinder doesn't die from the tests, instead she learns dangerous secrets about herself.

This is such a wonderful s ...more

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Sep 08, 2017 Anastasia ｼ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: retellings, 2017, i-recommend, reviewed, own, book-boyfriends, favorites, authors-m, sci-fi, romance

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Cinder is a retelling of one my favorite fairytales Cinderella. In this modern fairytale set in futuristic New Beijing, hundred years after World War IV, we are introduced to the main heroine: Cinder. A deadly and contagious disease is ravaging the Earth and killing its people, not to mention an imminent war against the people who live on the Moon (Luna), the Lunars. Cinder will soon discover that that the peace and safety of Earthens might possibly lie in her hands.

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Jul 26, 2015 Anna 'Bookbuyer' rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own-fiction, read-2011-2030, read-owned, own, shelf-m13

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Feb 24, 2016 Maddie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I didn't know this was a Cinderella retake.
I liked how there wasn't much romance in the book. There were the odd moments, but I didn't mind it. One thing that I didn't like was how (view spoiler) But I had no idea that (view spoiler) That was a nice shock. And why is there always an evil Queen? I don't even need any s ...more

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Oct 10, 2017 Mucia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: avani-s-shelf, retellings, science-fiction, fantasy

I had bought the new boxed set because I'm obsessed with the cover art and I remembered really liking this series the first time I read the ebooks years ago.

I'm glad that I was right! It was even more enjoyable reading it this second time around. The characters are so enjoyable. Cinder is one of my favorite modern retellings I've ever read. The combination of futuristic sci-fi technology, a "forbidden" romance, balls, the discrimination between cyborgs, Lunars, and Earthens. It's all done so we ...more

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May 26, 2015 Xee rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book left me pleasantly surprised. For all the series hype on booktube, I expected to be disappointed. Not only was I not, infact I went out to buy the second book(breaking my book buying ban). Why cant booktube hyped YA books all be this refreshing..

So the retelling is of Cinderella as a cyborg in a dystopia/sci-fi? world, where she is an adopted orphan and works as a mechanic to support her family. The pacing, I had heard was slow, but personally it didn't feel that way. Considering I had ...more

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