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Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)

Marissa Meyer

Start date: January 22, 2016

Finish date: January 31, 2016

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Nov 16, 2015 Krissy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, pgs-600-or-more

This book was my least favorite of the series mainly because I felt it was just too long.

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Oct 22, 2012 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult-teen-new-adult, fantasy-science-fiction, favorites, romance, library-has-a-copy, dystopian

The quote, "don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" came to mind while reading this book because though saying good-bye to this series and its characters made me sad, I am so glad that I read this series. This was a truly stellar ending and I loved how everything ended up playing out and the fact that everyone got their happily ever after. But that happily ever after wasn't without a few tense moments and Meyer definitely made her characters work very hard for it and that just ma ...more

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Mar 15, 2017 Marla rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, romance, fantasy, adventure, dystopia, war, challenged, with-reservations, girl-power, young-adult

Great end of a great series, but it is quite long, though a quick 800 page read. All the loose ends were tied up as far as I could remember, but battle was gruesome. I'm not a huge fan of retellings, but Ms. Meyer does an excellent job, and this story was an action-packed delight.

Likes:
* Lots of romance
* Cinder/Selene and Kai
* Scarlet and Wolf
* Cress and Capt. Carson Thorne
* Winter and Jacin
* Friendship and loyalty
* Beautiful cover
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Jan 26, 2016 Cindy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019, 2017, 2016

I've read a lot of fairy tale retellings. There are some rewrites of Snow White that I've come across but not nearly as many as there are of Cinderella. Most of them are just meh. This one is fabulous. I've re-read it every year since I first read it in 2014. The entire Lunar Chronicles series is A-mazing. ...more

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Feb 06, 2012 Amanda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, 5-stars, young-adult, friend-s-recs, retelling

This was a glorious first close to this sweeping story. (1st close, because we still have the novella with it's 5 new piece coming in the spring.)

I teared up (for the people of Luna at a point, rather than at anything a main character went through) and laughed a lot (at everyone, when I should of course). I made faces and gasped. I loved it, unabashedly, with a lot of thoughts about a lot of people. I love how the pieces of the fairytales kept being woven in. I love the politics. I love the deci ...more

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Sep 28, 2014 Ama rated it really liked it

Shelves: teen, audiobooks, classic-retellings, sci-fi, 2016

Fantastic narration. Great story.

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Apr 28, 2015 Anjillica Navarro rated it it was amazing

So good. I love this series and I love when each book gets better and better. It takes skill to write about so many different characters while keeping the reader captivated and Marissa Meyer is as skilled as a ninja in the dead of night. She had my anxiety sky-rocket, my heart flutter, my palms sweat and still I couldn't get enough. Even when I put the book down to breathe and let my heart palpitations settle, I was right back to reading within minutes, wanting and needing to know what was happe ...more

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Jul 05, 2016 Karen rated it really liked it

This was a great series. Though I rated each book four stars, the entire series is five stars. So thankful to the librarian who recommended this series to me.

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