And the stepmother is evil as she should be. Prince Kai is suave and charming and also little boy like which makes him endearing. And her android friend is so quirky and fun you can’t help but love Ilko too. Cinder is likable so that helps greatly in forgetting that is in fact only half human. But truthfully when you read it and everything is put together it just makes sense. I know, I know, it sounds insane and a crazy book for a girl that is obsessed with Anna and the French Kiss to love. And as Cinder gets closer to the Prince and the Lunar Queen starts using her power in questionable ways, Cinder starts to uncover something that just might help save New Beijing and Prince Kai, but collapse her world personally. The main part of the story is the state of New Beijing due to a deadly plague brought to earth by the Lunar’s and the Lunar queen herself who is a mix of the Wicked Queen from Snow White and Ursula from The Little Mermaid if you ask me. They are there on the surface and especially at parts of the ball, but the story isn’t really focused on all of that. But really that is where the similarities kind of stop. Instead of Cinderella hiding that she is a servant girl, Cinder hides that she is only half human from the prince. But Cinder is also a cyborg in this story which brings a whole new level to the story. You have the awful step-mother that expects Cinder to do what she wants when she wants it, the step-sisters, one evil and one loving, you have the charming prince, and you have the ball. Honestly, I don’t really even know how to describe this book because it is very similar to the story of Cinderella. But even in its predictability, it was a fun journey to take. But as I started to read more and more and I started to see the similarities of Meyer’s Cinderella and the original fairy tale version, I got swept away in the creativity of it all. Cyborgs and androids and moon people that’s just a tad too much for me to take. When I first started reading it I was convinced that I wouldn’t want to continue the series.

I will be the first to admit that I am shocked by how much I enjoyed this book. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future. 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. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness.

No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.Ĭinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move.

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing.

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