Author: Marissa Meyer
Genre: YA/Science Fiction/Dystopia
Overall: Cinder by Marissa Meyer is the first book in the Lunar Chronicles. A retelling of the classic story 'Cinderella,' the book follows the cyborg girl Cinder in her adventures through New Beijing. With a futuristic setting, in a world where a plague is put upon the population and people lie on the moon, Cinder is a fantastic book filled with exciting developments and characters.
For those who enjoy stories about futures filled with robots, cyborg's, and a kick-butt engineer heroine, Cinder is the book for you. If not, then this is still the story for you! I did not expect to like Cinder when I first picked the book up. However, once I got started reading, I could hardly put the book down. I would 100% recommend Cinder for anyone.
The Characters: Cinder is, as I said before, a totally kick-butt engineer cyborg heroine who is not exactly who she thinks she is. From the moment the book started with Cinder changing her foot to the very last scene, I was in love with Cinder, and cannot wait to read the next book, Scarlet.
Other than Cinder, I felt that Iko, Cinder's best robot friend, Prince Kai, and the other characters were well developed and likeable--or, in the case of the evil stepmother and sister, perfectly unlikeable. Marissa Meyer managed to make the characters pop straight off the page.
The Plot/Setting: New Beijing was described wonderfully and realistically. I could easily imagine the monarch-led country just as easily as I could picture the plague.The plot is well-developed, very intriguing. There weren't any times at which I felt that the story was dragging on, nor any time when the action was too fast to comprehend. There was a perfectly satisfying dollop of suspense dropped into the storyline, and the end was wrapped up neatly, though with enough of a cliff-hanger to leave me anxious for the sequel.
The Originality: As a retelling of 'Cinderella' about a cyborg, in a science-fiction future where robots are commonplace and an advanced breed of human beings live on the moon, Cinder is an extremely original novel
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