2014/08/04

Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Title: Cinder
Author: Marissa Meyer
Published: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 390
Rating: 3/5

This is the first book in The Lunar Chronicles.


Summary:
Set in New Bejing, humans, androids and cyborgs live among each other. Cinder, a cyborg and a mechanic, is regarded a second-class citizen. Times are not peaceful and the world has changed a lot since World War IV. A plague is ravaging Earth, and the Lunar people are waiting to make their move from space.

Cinder is suddenly thrown into the middle of this by having to fix Prince Kai's android, who retains some very important information that will change the future of everything.


Review:
I really enjoyed this book. It was a light read but set in a very interesting universe. I liked that it was set in Bejing and I loved the part with cyborgs and androids, and that cyborgs aren't deemed actual humans, even though they may only have a foot that's mechanic.

I liked how it reminds me of Cinderella and you can see the similarities (she has a horrible step mother, two sisters and so on), but it's not the same. I liked the main character, and I loved Iko the android who provides great comic relief.

What lowers my rating of this book was that it was very predictable. In the first hundred pages I could figure out what was going to happen for the rest of the book. And it wasn't because of the Cinderella story in the background, it was just very, very obvious.

I was really in the mood for this kind of book which definitely helped my impression of it. This is a simple read that is quite entertaining. I am actually really excited to read the next ones in this series, because I've heard they're really good and I love the universe.

I would recommend this to those who like young adult science fiction books.

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