Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Dear Books Lovers,

for those who follow me on instagram knows that in the past few days I have launched various polls in my stories to make you decide what my future readings would be. Out of 8 initial books, four remained. I very much appreciate the great response from you in the votes. Of these 4 books I should have read only two, always chosen by the polls, but in the end I decided that I would have read all four in order of votes. The books chosen were, in order, Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson, Ash princess by Laura Sebastien and The Vanishing Throne by Elizabeth May.

I have already completed my first reading, Cinder, and if you are not already following me on instagram but would like to participate in all these initiatives and stay updated, I am waiting for you because soon I will need to decide on new readings and I will need your help. I am sure that thanks to you I will be able to read some bought and unread books that have been lying in my library for too long.

Moving on to the review instead, I have always heard very well about Marissa Meyer, she has written many books, most of them retellings, which have been very successful. In Italy they have been translated by mondadori, and not long ago, thanks to a super discount on amazon, and thanks to the culture bonus, I bought the lunar chronicles box with all six books, Cinder, Scarlett, Cress and Winter with the companion Stars Above and Fairest, in the most beautiful covers I’ve ever seen, with bonus content and fanarts within each volume.

The retellings are correspondingly of Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Snow White. It all starts with Cinder, a mechanic, half Cyborg, adopted when she was just a little girl and her parents had died in an accident. As you can imagine from the Cinderella story, the stepsisters and mother are not the best, although Peony, the youngest, is not as bad as she looks.

The story is a young adult, sci-fi, set in a futuristic land, in which, however, a virus, carried by the inhabitants of the moon who are immune to it, is killing all earthlings. Scientists have not yet been able to find a cure, and now the emperor of New Beijing is also infected, and with his death, Kaito, his son, a 19-year-old, will be crowned emperor.

Kai and Cinder meet when one day the prince goes to her to request her services as a mechanic to fix one of his robots that apparently no longer works. This meeting can be seen from two points. The first positive because it will start, for me and I believe many other readers, the ship between Kai and Cinder, but negative because a lot of negative situations will start from here that will eventually put Cinder and the whole world in danger when Queen Levana arrives on Earth.

Because Cinder is not just a Cyborg, or just a human, she is so much more, her life is precious even if no one knows yet, and she is in danger. And when all of her plans are shattered by her duty to do the right thing, things will take the most negative turn they could take.

This first volume is rather short compared to the others, but what fascinated me was the fluency and the writing skills of the author despite this being her debut novel. I recommend it. Marissa Meyer has a really pleasant writing that in some places will make you smile, in others she will make you suffer, and is able to best express what the characters are really thinking.

The narration is in the third person and the chapters are divided between Kai and Cinder until the end, in order not to miss even a fundamental situation for the plot.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

 

 

 

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Pubblicato da Me and Books

Mi chiamo Miriam e sono l'amministratore di Me and Books. Ho tante passioni, ma le più grandi sono la lettura e la scrittura, ed ho creato questo blog proprio per poter condividere le mie passioni. Penso che recensire un libro sia una cosa molto importante che richiede tempo e dedizione. A volte un lettore prima di scegliere un libro vuole sapere che quello che sta scegliendo è quello giusto, e le recensioni servono proprio per questo, per aiutare il lettore a scegliere. Ma questo è anche un modo per aiutare autore e case editrici a farsi conoscere. È anche per questo che pubblico gli articoli sia in italiano che in inglese, per non lasciare nessuno fuori. Vi chiedo di non esitare a pormi qualsiasi domanda sul mondo dell'editoria, spero solo di riuscire a fornire la risposta perfetta.