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Cinder Review

John Brownridge
    In this blog post, I will be reviewing Cinder, by Marissa Meyer.
   
 
     The Lunars are a race of humans who live on the moon. When humans colonized the moon, the people who lived their were changed, do to the different conditions. When they had children, the children became almost another species.
    Cinder follows the story of 16 year old Linh Cinder, who is treated badly because of her being a cyborg. When she was a young girl, she was taken in by a family, who horribly mistreats her because of her disability. Her only friend in the family is Linh Peony, one of her stepsisters. The book starts with Cinder, who is a talented mechanic, meeting Prince Kai, the heir to the throne of the Commonwealth. He asks her to repair his android. He takes the android, and tells the prince that he should return later to pick it up. It is obvious that she has a crush on him. When she gets home, she watches the news and finds out that Kai's father, the emperor of Commonwealth is infected with a deadly disease called letumosis.
     Levana, who wan'ts to merry Kai, is the queen of Luna. (A colony on the moon that has evolved into a different species.) She will do anything to marry him, just to be able to be a leader on Earth as well. She starts communicating with Kai and trying to get on his good side.
    When Linh Adri, Cinder's adopted mother, finds out that Peony has letumosis, she automatically assumes that it must have been cinder who passed the disease on to her. She hands Cinder over to the palace so she can be tested for letumosis research. When Dr. Erland injected her with the letumosis pathogens, they disappear. Cinder is found to be immune.
    Throughout the rest of the book, Cinder becomes close with Kai, but tries her best not to reveal the fact that she is a cyborg to him. She ends up going to the ball, against her stepmothers wishes, and it becomes difficult to keep the secret. When Kai shows an interest in Cinder, Levana intervenes, and tries to kill Cinder in an epic climax. in an epic climax.
    I recommend this book very much. The end of the book is very good, and leaves me wanting to rab the sequel. I like how it is based on Cinderella, but with a sci-fi twist. I like twisted fairy tails. The pacing is great. I am never bored when reading it. The relationship between Cinder and her family is very interesting. It is fun to see how Peony, who is still loved and well respected by her mother is friends with Cinder and doesn't blame her. It also adds an emotional value to the book. The fact that her best and only friend is dying and she's being blamed for it, is very interesting. Her relationship with Prince Kai is also interesting. It can seem a little forced at times, but at other times, it seems perfectly natural. I like the whole idea of Lunars, who have powers, and live on the moon. The story is very creative and fun, and I have basically no criticisms of it. 5/5.




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  1. This sounds like a very interesting variation on the classic story of Cinderella. This is one of the more unique ones. The idea of a species of humans on the moon sounds like an interesting premise for any story, let alone Cinderella. Even though I'm not very big into fairy tales, this retelling seems worth the time to check out.

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