Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) in Vampires, Weres and Fae!

Sep 11, 2018 Brittany rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, fairy-tale-and-retellings, sci-fi

I enjoyed this book, its probably a 3.5 start read for me. I went into it with too high of expectations so it did take me a bit longer to get into it. The story was predictable and the characters are fairly cookie cutter but there is room for a lot of growth in the future novels. I liked the cyborg and other worldly beings as well as the idea of the futuristic world. However, that world was underdeveloped. There is this other race and we find out so little about them, I hope the next book adds t ...more

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Feb 04, 2023 Darlene rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I really should have started reading this soon and I feel like I’m late to the game lol
Anyway I really enjoyed it. I’m a huge sucker for fairytale retellings or inspired on so this was just such a treat to read.

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Mar 31, 2015 Vannessa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-books, sci-fi, young-adult, 2015-100-books-reading-challenge

This book has been on my to read list for a long while now and a book group I'm in picked it for this month's read, so I bought it to join in and was very pleasantly surprised. It is supposed to be a YA book, but it didn't really feel like one. Yes, the main character was young, but not a schoolgirl.

Cinder is a cyborg, mostly human with a few futuristic enhancements following a serious accident many years before. She lives with her adoptive mother/guardian and 2 adoptive sisters; one being nice This book has been on my to read list for a long while now and a book group I'm in picked it for this month's read, so I bought it to join in and was very pleasantly surprised. It is supposed to be a YA book, but it didn't really feel like one. Yes, the main character was young, but not a schoolgirl.

Cinder is a cyborg, mostly human with a few futuristic enhancements following a serious accident many years before. She lives with her adoptive mother/guardian and 2 adoptive sisters; one being nice and the other not. Cinder runs a workshop in the market, fixing up robots and other electronic items and one day, who should appear in her shop, but the Prince Kai. Like in the traditional Cinderella story, which this one is very loosely based on, the Prince is holding a ball and rumour has it that he is looking for his bride, but there is more going on behind the scenes than the public know about.

This story is set in a very futuristic Earth in which, following another World War, various countries have come together as Unions and we now also have the Lunar people from the moon, whose leader is quite a ruthless woman looking to rule the world!

There is also a plague devastating New Beijing and Cinder, being a cyborg, is "volunteered" by her mother/guardian for testing, but it soon becomes apparent that Cinder is immune to the disease. The doctor working on her, finds out some things about her that she never even knew herself, having no memories of her life before the accident.

Cinder, herself, also finds out things which could change the way her city is run and ends up going to the ball in a borrowed dress and an old ill fitting foot in try to help the Prince, but her timing was not quite right and Cinder ends up making a few revelations to her family and the Prince that she really didn't want revealing. Cue...cliffhanger ending!

I loved this story and yes it is a future style Cinderella, but it was so much better than the traditional love story we all know. There was no fairy godmother as such but Iko, Cinder's robot friend and the doctor kind of helped out in a way as did the Prince unknowingly to enable Cinder to go to the ball. There was no instant love and falling in love forever from Cinder and the Prince, but there was definitely a spark there between them, but whether that spark will continue or whether it will be allowed to be explored, will hopefully be revealed in the next book. Because of the cliffhanger ending, the Prince did not find his bride and live happily ever after, but I do hope that eventually they will get together.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can't wait to get ahold of the next one and carry on this story! ...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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