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

Jun 07, 2012 Yodamom rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: cliffhanger-craptastic-ending, romance, audio, fairy-tale, pure-awesomeness, favorite, ya-books, new-authors, mystery, want-to-do-it-again

Loved, loved, loved Cinder ! Not only a fantastic twist on the Cinderella tale but a wonderful audio book. - Instead of losing her slipper she lost her......; 0 You have to read this if you love fairy tales.
Cinder has the abusive stepmother, the rotten step sisters, well one, he other is actually nice. Cinder is adopted, an adopted cyborg with no memory of her past before a terrible accident that left her- a cyborg. Cyborgs are treated as slaves, to be bought and sold at will. Which her widowed ...more

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Jul 05, 2012 Carrie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: m-g, library, science-fiction, young-adult, 1st-in-a-series, teen, fairytale-like, aliens, hardcover, red-shoe

Rating 3.5/4

I love the cover of this book, I am after all a sucker for red shoes. It is a very look at me, pick me up and read me cover. Well atleast that's what it says to me.

So I picked it up and read it, well first I had to request it to be sent from another library as mine had "lost" it's copy. Meaning someone enjoyed the book and didn't want to share it.

On to the book itself.

I don't know if others agree with me or if I'm in the minority as I have yet to pay much attention to the other rev ...more

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Mar 14, 2015 Rachel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, to-be-reread

What total, absolute fun!

I think I'm not going to say that I don't go for a particular genre or sub-genre anymore because I keep finding out that I do. Cinder is so many things: it is quite obviously a fairy tale retelling, it is clearly science fiction (not fantasy), and whether it is dystopian is really up for debate, in my most humble opinion. I was curious, so I looked it up officially and the definition is, "an imaginary society that is as dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible." Not so ...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Colleen Scidmore rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, currently-on-google-drive, fantasy, part-of-a-series, dystopia, notebook, books-to-sell-1

I give Cinder a 4.5. It was really a very good book, easy to read and a different take on a futuristic Cinderella story. I would have given it a 5 except that I have to admit it was easy to figure out the twists.
I was pleasantly surprised to read Cinder. I had no idea I would like this book as much as I did, as I am not a big Sci-Fi reader. I loved how the author added certain familiar parts to Cinderella and then very much made it it's own story. ...more

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Mar 16, 2012 Melindeeloo rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: steampunk, fairy-tale-romance, pif-saar-2019

I am not much of a YA reader - how many different ways can you combine highschool, the supernatural, and a mean girl who is in competition with the heroine for the hot guy? But Cinder is something really different. Inspired by the fairytale Cinderella, Cinder is a cyborg mechanic in a plague ridden future and in the role of the glass slipper is Cinders high tech foot prothesis.

I really enjoyed Cinder, I don't know how much of the story I'd have figured out without spoiler from my daughter who r ...more

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