Book Review: Winter

Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.

Winter by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This would have been a lot better at about half the length. The same things kept happening over and over, except with different characters. And constant descriptions about what everyone was wearing and how they looked. And having four different romantic couples was a bit much. And the bad guys were hilariously incompetent.

If you loved the series to begin with, you'll probably love the ending. But if, like me, you're just reading to see how it all ends, you'll probably be annoyed and a bit bored.

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Book Review: Cress

Cress by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Publication Date: February 2014
Source: Library

In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.

Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.

When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.

I quite liked this one. For some reason I was thinking this was a trilogy and this was the last book, but it's not. I didn't love Cress as the main character, but she grew on me, and the other characters from previous books are growing on me more and more.

The plot moves at a pretty fast pace. There are a lot of interesting things happening, and I'm actually pretty excited to see what happens. I'm particularly interested in Princess Winter, and want to read more about her, so I hope we see more of her in the next book.

This is definitely a fun series, very loosely based on different fairy tales. I'd recommend it.

Edit: Just saw that book four is called Winter.  So yeah, should have checked that out before making a silly comment about hoping we'll see more of Princess Winter in the next book.


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