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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

Marissa Meyer

Start date: March 23, 2012

Finish date: March 31, 2012

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Jan 25, 2015 Krissy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, pgs-400-499, tagged-steampunk

**2015 Reading Challenge W/Josh: #11 A Book With A One Word Title**

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Feb 04, 2013 Cindy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017, 2019, 2016, br-buddy-reads, 2023

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Nov 18, 2017 Avigail rated it really liked it

Shelves: own, physical-book, 2017

Well, I had this book since 2014 on my bookshelf since I found this community called BookTube. But for some reason, I didn't read as soon as I had on my hands. During October I haven't finished the two books I started (one of them is a book I forgot about but remembered where I was left and I am almost done so more about that book on its own book-review). So I felt that I had to read something else, as I was browsing through my large TBR books I spotted Cinder and it was calling me.
I loved the r ...more

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Sep 22, 2016 Vickie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: listened-to

This is a very good adaptation of the Cinderella story. There's a Cinderella, an evil stepmother, two stepsisters (one's not so bad), and a prince. It's set in a dystopian future with a pandemic that the world is trying to cure.
Everything hinges on the disease one way or another. People are dying and the cure seems to be just out of the medical personnel's reach. They have been experimenting on cyborgs. Cinder is cyborg. She's been hiding her non-human parts from the world. She meets the prince ...more

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Jul 31, 2014 Destiny rated it it was amazing

The first thing that I really noticed was that I read the first few chapters. The time just seemed to fly by.

I really liked Cinder and I thought Iko was so cute. I liked Prince Kai and I found myself mildly annoyed with Adri and Pearl.

Story wise I thought it was good. The plot moved a really good pace. I liked the way things unfurled.

But what really had me fascinated was the worldbuilding. I'm a sucker for it. The whole world is so fascinating. I mean cyborgs, androids, and aliens? The moon as a ...more

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Feb 16, 2017 Cindy rated it it was amazing

I've read a lot of fairy tale retellings. I've read Cinderella as everything from a regular high school girl in current times to a zombie killing badass. This is quite honestly the best retelling of Cinderella I have ever read. I've re-read it every year since I first read it in 2013. I own the book in paperback and hardcover, on my kindle and as an audio book. The entire Lunar Chronicles series is A-mazing. ...more

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Feb 07, 2014 Angie Taylor rated it really liked it

This book took me a while to get into, but once I did, I was hooked. It's by far my favorite, most original retelling of Cinderella I've ever read. I really enjoyed it. It was fairly predictable, and I knew who Cinder was from the very beginning, but who cares? When it's a good story, sometimes the predictability doesn't matter! ...more

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Jul 26, 2014 Melanie rated it it was amazing

Anyone who know me knows I am a sucker for a Cinderella story almost to the point of obsession, and this one was no different. I love the world she created and I love the tie in to the fairy tail. I think one of my favorite things about this series is how each of the books simultaneously follows a classic fairy tale while tying into the previous book, while also coming up with an entirely new story altogether. Pretty clever.

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