AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.MarissaMeyer.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantacy, Sci-Fi, Romance
PUBLISHED: November 10, 2015 - Feiwel & Friends
MY RATING: 4
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AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.MarissaMeyer.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantacy, Sci-Fi, Romance
PUBLISHED: November 10, 2015 - Feiwel & Friends
MY RATING: 4
FIND ON: Amazon
SYNOPSIS:
(Courtesy of
Goodreads – No Spoilers!)
Princess
Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite
the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking
than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?
Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?
REVIEW:
I love when
a story comes together. This one wasn’t as fabulous as Book Three, but it gave
me what I was hoping for. This is the conclusion to the overall story of Cinder
adding in another main character named Winter. She is totally crazy. Her
craziness is so painful to read, but necessary to understand her character. I’m
so glad there are good people on Luna. In the previous books, I began to wonder
why Earth doesn’t just shoot the moon out of the sky. But Winter gave me hope
for the salvaging the people of Luna.
Jacin the
man in love with Winter confused me for a long time (which was probably
intentional.) I wasn’t sure if he could be trusted, until he proved that when
it comes to Winter, he is 100% reliable.
RATING:
RECOMMENDATIONS:
This book
leads us back into gore and violence, especially with all the mind control
happening on Luna. Again, I’d rate it as a PG-13 movie because of that. There
is also kissing, thankfully. I needed relief from the horror. Just like the
entire series, my teen handled reading it just fine. (She actually read it
before me, so I couldn’t warn her.)
*NOTE ABOUT ENTIRE SERIES:
This
series was an intense and fabulous adventure into a futuristic world. I was
worried the fairytale themes would cast a cliché shadow over it and I worried
it would be dumb. But it didn’t! To my surprise the fairytale theme acted more
like a “lens” in which to look through as opposed to a storyline in which it
was stuck to. It wildly deterred from all the storylines of each of the old
tiredfairytale characters. Good job Marissa Meyer!
I’m
so glad I didn’t find this series until 2016 and I was able to Binge-Read them
ALL! Yum!