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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)

Marissa Meyer

Start date: April 1, 2013

Finish date: April 30, 2013

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Jul 05, 2012 Carrie rated it really liked it

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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Oct 09, 2012 Terri rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, apocalyptic-dystopian-fiction, mythology-fairy-tales-legends

Cinder lives in New Beiijing and works as a mechanic. SHe is a cyborg and therefore property of her stepmother. Her life changes one day when Prince Kai walks into her shop for her to repair his android. A modern re-telling of the Cinderella story, its twists and imaginings in a post war society is fascinating.

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Jan 12, 2014 Cindy rated it it was amazing

Five stars! That is how much I loved going on this adventure ride. There are many fairy tale reinventions out there and I enjoy them all, from The Looking Glass Wars to The Tenth Kingdom, but this one ranks up there as a favorite. This reimagining of Cinderella is inspired! Set in a post WWIV world, in China, we meet Cinder, a cyborg, toiling away as a mechanic for her discriminating aunt and stepsisters, one of whom she adores. A plague rages across the globe as the remaining six major nations ...more

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Aug 26, 2016 Christi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, 2016-reads, popsugar-2016

This is not a book I would ordinarily read. I am not a fan of science fiction or YA books.
But I needed a book based on a fairy tale and this was highly recommended.

I was pleasantly surprised that it was a very good book. It did take a few chapters to get past the whole future world robot Cinderella and into the meat of the story. That was the part that really intrigued me - the political maneuvering between Earth and the Moon. I also liked the twists on the ball, the slipper, the pumpkin coach ...more

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