I held off reading this for a long time, because the idea of cyborgs didn't really strike me...but eventually the hype about this series in the YA world, plus the fact that it's a bit of a fairy tale retelling (I have a pretty big soft spot for those) got to me. And I'm glad I read it. It was a fun start to a story and I'm excited to see where it goes, now that the Cinderella part is mostly already told. Now there's lots of options for next plot steps. I think I saw the "reveal" like 3 chapters into the book, but I know that's due mainly to the parallells to Cinderella - there's only so may ways it can have gone. However, even knowing what was coming, I enjoyed the read. I think the use of cyborg/technology actually ended up being a pretty cool original spin, and it didn't make things as awkward as I had expected. Also, the tech piece opens up room for a lot of extra tidbits in the story - the Lunar/moon colony, Cinder's mostly death and return from the brink, the ability to hide her origins and Lunar "powers" - pretty creative. I like that inter-weaved with the story we all already know and love. All in all, I think this was a well crafted retelling and start to a new series.