Actual rating, 3.5 out of 4 stars.

Cinder, Scarlet, Wolf, and Captain Thorne are orbiting Earth in Thorne's spaceship, trying to stay hidden from Queen Levana and the Eastern Commonwealth. They desperately need to get back to Earth and train Cinder to use her Lunar gift in hopes of thrawting Levana's wedding to Emperor Kai. Thankfully, they kept a communication chip that connects them to Cress, the titular character who has been stuck in a satellite all alone for seven years. Cress is a dreamy, chirpy girl with amazing hacking skills who is sick and tired of being used as a pawn of the Lunar Queen. She wants out, wants friends, and is in love love love with Captain Thorne. Too bad the gang's attempted rescue of Cress goes so wrong...

Again, Meyer does a great job of balancing out her characters. Cress is super endearing, especially in her crush on the undeserving (or so it seems) Captain Thorne. I knocked it a half a star more out of spite then anything else. One of my favs was MIA for the majority of this tale.

Now we must wait for Winter, in 2015.