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click here.I was lucky to gain an advanced copy at ALA this year. My review will contain spoilers. So if you don't want to be spoiled, STOP READING. NOW. I AM NOT KIDDING.
First and foremost, you will not only have to have read the first two novels, but you should read them right before you read Cress. I did not and had to keep fact checking to refresh my memory. Just do a quick reread of them both and bingo-bango, no problems there.
I haven't seen the cover art yet, of course, but I have heard it is breatI was lucky to gain an advanced copy at ALA this year. My review will contain spoilers. So if you don't want to be spoiled, STOP READING. NOW. I AM NOT KIDDING.
First and foremost, you will not only have to have read the first two novels, but you should read them right before you read Cress. I did not and had to keep fact checking to refresh my memory. Just do a quick reread of them both and bingo-bango, no problems there.
I haven't seen the cover art yet, of course, but I have heard it is breath-taking. I will probably buy an offical copy for the cover-art. *ETA: GAH! Just as pretty as the other two. Is there somewhere I can get the official arts on posters? They would make great additions to my other book posters.*
The book itself is a real page-turner, just like the rest. I felt sad that I had to put it down. It is really well paced and cuts POV's at great spots, jumping over boring behind-the-scene bits (that only was slightly confusing one time in the beginning).
Iko gets a body. OMFG I love Iko. I thought I loved her as a ship, but she is perfect in a body. Gah! Best secondary character ever. Meyer should release a collection of stories from Iko's POV. I would love them 110% more.
Wolf and Scarlet get separated! Just when they got to be all adorable and together and happy, they get separated. Wolf goes into catatonic-crazo Scarlet goes to Lunar for "fun" times.
Kai and Cinder get their conversation/argument! It is as adorably angsty as you could want.
Now we have to new comer. Cress. She makes a very hardcore yet believably fluffy Rapunzel. She is very well written and the book spends the appropriate amount of time on her. She's a programmer/hacker chick. Of course good ole Cap'n Thorne is her love interest. But, as it turns out, he is both as caddish and heroic as you would expect. He *was* a huge selfish jerk, but by the end, he has had some massive character development. Now all together: Awwwww.
We do meet Winter at the very end (the Snow White of the series). She is adorably creepy, insane, and fantastic. She has a menagerie of animals in her rooms she cares for.
The book definitely leaves you aching for more. I do NOT know how I will last until 2015 for the next one. The wait, more than likely, will cause me to parish in pining fangirly anguish....more
