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.
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.
So I've recently gotten into the whole fairytale-spinoff thing. It's pretty cool.
Now you, like many (including myself), probably looked at that description and said "That book looks like it's meant as a bedtime story for 6 year old girls (or 45 year old men. Hey, I don't judge). You my friend, are very wrong.
OH MY SWEET JESUS THIS WAS GREAT. I heard about it from this youtube book vlogger (katytastic) and read it. I really thought it was gonna suck. I really did. It had a bunch of plot twists and cliffhangers. And the romance wasn't that classic cheesy YA novel romance where girl and boy fall in love and they fight off the bad guys before riding into the sunset. It was a tad bit more reasonable.
One of the things I didn't like about this was something I don't like about a lot of YA novels. I hate, and I mean HATE, when authors substitute curse words for something ridiculous ("oh stars" instead of "oh sh**") but have no problem with violence. It's utterly irritating.
But I will be reading the second book.... eventually and doing a review on it. Unfortunately the third one isn't coming out until 2014 and the fifth is expected in 2015. This will be a long and treacherous wait.
Well, ta ta biblioholics!!!!
Quick side note:
Taylor is on punishment (sad face) and won't be blogging for a while. I guess I'm flying solo for a while......
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