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adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
May 2024
3.5 stars
The audiobook was great. Cinder has a fantastic plot with interesting characters. Cinder and Iko are loveable, and their chemistry with each other and the plot translates over audio. The insta-love trope is played out. (Cinder is older, but when will we move past it). Kai spilling his guts to Cinder, does not make sense to me. A PRINCE?!? talking to (essentially) a peasant. The step-mother was the prime example of a well-written villian. The perfect balance of evil and "I feel that." Queen L is too sterotypical villian for me. I enjoyed the fairytale and scifi blend.
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Dec 2014
I'm giving this book 3 and a half stars.
"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" - Goodreads
I was 44 pages into the book when I had already figured out a major point in the plot which was disappointing. I wish we could have learned more about Garan but I guess that's just how the plot goes..
I did have a bit of a problem about Prince Kai. Why would he, a prince who has lived in the palace with probably fake people all his life, tell deep things to a girl he just meet a couple of days ago. Like no it didn't make real sense to me.
I wanted a bit more from depth from this book. I found it to be a light, yet still enjoyable read.
3.5 stars
The audiobook was great. Cinder has a fantastic plot with interesting characters. Cinder and Iko are loveable, and their chemistry with each other and the plot translates over audio. The insta-love trope is played out. (Cinder is older, but when will we move past it). Kai spilling his guts to Cinder, does not make sense to me. A PRINCE?!? talking to (essentially) a peasant. The step-mother was the prime example of a well-written villian. The perfect balance of evil and "I feel that." Queen L is too sterotypical villian for me. I enjoyed the fairytale and scifi blend.
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Dec 2014
I'm giving this book 3 and a half stars.
"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" - Goodreads
I was 44 pages into the book when I had already figured out a major point in the plot which was disappointing. I wish we could have learned more about Garan but I guess that's just how the plot goes..
I did have a bit of a problem about Prince Kai. Why would he, a prince who has lived in the palace with probably fake people all his life, tell deep things to a girl he just meet a couple of days ago. Like no it didn't make real sense to me.
I wanted a bit more from depth from this book. I found it to be a light, yet still enjoyable read.