Cinder

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Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Release Date:  January 3, 2012

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends

Age Group: Young Adult

Pages: 400

Format: ARC
Source: borrowed
Intrest: Young Adult
Challenge: 2012 Reading Challenge, 2012 Debut Author Challenge
Buy the Book: Amazon

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . 

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

I heard about this book over the summer and was dying to get my hands on a copy. I am a huge fan of fairy tale's and this one had an exciting twist that enchanted me. When a fellow blogger offered to loan me her copy, I jumped on it!

Cinder is the story of  a young woman named Cinder. Yep, you guessed it, she's Cinderella, but not your typical Cinderalla. Cinder, is a cyborg! She lives in New Beijing with her stepmother and her two stepsisters. Cinder is the best mechanic in all of New Beijing and one day Prince Kai stops by her shop to have her work on his android.

Marissa Meyer did an amazing job retelling this classic fairy tale in a new and incredibly unique way! She stayed true to the "fairy tale" side of it but added in plenty of new elements that the typical Cinderella fairy tale has never seen! Cinder was an incredible dystopian full of family drama, political intrigue, love, and an evil villan! 

My only regrets are that I would have liked to see a little bit more of the culture thrown in there. Other than the occasional kimono or two that were thrown in. And I could definately see exactly where the story line was going, and called it within the first 50 pages of the book. The plot twists were easy to predict before they happened, so it wasn't very "shocking",  but despite that, I still really enjoyed reading it.

I've heard that the author is planning three more books that will tie in the tales of Snow White, Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood. The way that Cinder ended I can totally see that happening. She definately exhausted everything in the classic Cinderella fairy tale, but yet, left it open to do much more with the story line of Cinder and its characters. Marissa Meyer did an incredible job expertly weaving the classic Cinderella fairy tale with a unique twist all its own! I look forward to seeing how she expertly weaves other classic fairy tales into  the story in the next book!