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The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!
In this third book in Marissa Meyer's bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, 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 prevent her army from invading Earth.
Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped 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 being forced to work for Queen Levana, and she's just received orders to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.
When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is splintered. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price than she'd ever expected. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai, especially the cyborg mechanic. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.
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5+ Stars
I love fairy tales. I also love SciFi. Marissa Meyer does such an excellent job in putting these two together! It is amazing to me as well that in this third book of her Lunar Chronicles series that she also handles multiple points of view and story-lines so seamlessly without losing my interest or confusing me. This is storytelling at its best!
I don't know how she comes up with the back-stories for her characters that build these amazing plots, nor how she creatively takes a beloved fairy tale (Rapunzel) and creates this amazing story. I just know that she does it well. I was immediately drawn in to Cress's world, her joys, and her fears from the first page. None of the characters in this series are perfect, and Cress is no different. I would say, however, that all the characters are perfectly flawed and I wouldn't change a thing about them. They are all consistent and I felt they react as they should if they weren't just in a storybook world. I loved Cress! She is amazing! She isn't my favorite character. I think Cinder, Scarlet, and Thorne are all vying for that place, but I still love all of these characters. I can't say that I love the villains, which are Queen Lavana and Sybil, but they are very true to who they are and what they do.
I just have to note here that I am very happy with Thorne's place in the whole plot. I felt he was meant specifically for someone and now I know that he is and I am very happy about it. :) Prince Kai redeems himself to me in this book. I loved him in Cinder, not so much in Scarlet, and I am falling back in love with him in Cress. We also meet another leading man and a new leading lady that I'm sure will be much more present in the fourth book. I'm really looking forward to it!
The plot kept me turning the pages. Meyer doesn't let her characters off easy. She is actually pretty hard on all of them. They have a serious fight they have undertaken with serious decisions to be made that have major consequences. I'm glad that it hasn't been too easy, even though it was pretty difficult in spots. I was a little worried about what would happen and I'm glad that I'm happy with the way things are going. I'm really not sure what is going to unfold in the final book. I can figure out what needs to happen and probably what will happen, but I also know that it is going to be a tough journey for Cinder and her companions.
If you enjoy reading fairy tales (or very creative twists on them), or SciFi, then I would highly recommend reading Cress! The series just seems to get better and better. If there was a higher rating than 5, this book would get that for me.
Content: Clean (there is some innuendo and violence, but I would still consider this clean)
Source: Purchased
So, Cress. After the fast, action - packed Cinder and Scarlet, we get this book. Sure, things happen, but it's such a meandering plot. The group is fractured, so we jump from POV to POV with every new chapter. This isn't really Cress's book - she's just a new character. She isn't particularly strong - the constant whimpering did begin to grate pretty early on - but she is clever and overall acquits herself well. The only character I truly liked in this book was Scarlet, who isn't present much but when she is, she shows strength and courage. The others? Oh boy. The incredible stupidity of Emperor Kai is a marvel. At some point he tells his adviser that he'd thought Queen Levana would be happy to just be his Empress and wouldn't bring her army to Earth. Then he says that thinking this was probably stupid. Why, yes! It WAS stupid, seeing is as back as in book 1, Kai was warned repeatedly that Levana was a power hungry woman who was going to kill him for the throne. In book 2 we saw a major Lunar attack on earth. Why would you NOT suspect that she'd bring her military to Earth as soon as she became Empress? Cinder isn't much better. She is petulant, impulsive, just plain stupid at times. And the scene at the end when she FINALLY shares her secret with Kai? Who hears that Princess Selena is a cyborg and STILL can't cotton on that it's Cinder? Sweet baby Jesus. With that kind of brain trust in charge of the "revolution", it's no wonder Queen Levana seems to outplay and outsmart them at every turn.
And of course, the jewel in this particular crown: the criminal, obsessive over-use of the verb "gulp". Good god. People gulp in this book 47 times. Several times per chapter. The same character gulps twice in 3 paragraphs. Once you notice it, you can't un-notice, and it becomes excruciating, both because of the repetitiveness, and because gulp is such a grating word. For the love of everything that is holy, someone give the author a thesaurus. Her editing team is clearly not worth their money if they miss her obsession with gulping from book to book (note: people gulped 38 times in Scarlet and 47 times in Cress. Yes, I used my Kindle app to count. It's only fair).
I'm going to read book 4 though I'm not holding out much hope. This one was a boring, meandering, GULPING wreck.
For probably the hundredth time I'm kicking myself for waiting this long to start this series. Seriously, WHY DIDN'T I WANT TO READ THESE BOOKS?! I haven't felt this addicted to a series in so long and to be honest, I've been in a book slump since last year when I finished the Addicted series by the KB twins and haven't been in the mood to read since.
But these books have changed everything. The character development alone keeps me reading and up until late at night. This book was amazing and oh my god I still can't believe these books are real!
I want to say a bunch of great things about the plot and the characters and how much I love them (and sometimes hate them) but I'm too anxious to start the fourth book and I could probably write hundreds of pages worth of reasons why you should read this book. So yeah. Just read the series. Peace.
I was first introduced to the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer several months ago when I learned about Cinder, the first book in the series. I originally only purchased that one to see how I liked it and ended up devouring it so I immediately ordered the rest of the series! I tore through Scarlet, the second book in the series, and was trying to hold off starting Cress so that I could prolong my enjoyment of this series. Well, that didn't happen and I dove right into Cress. This series is addicting and every time more characters are added, there are more plots and twists. My heart pounds with excitement and I tell myself "One more chapter" but you can guess how much THAT works!
Cress is the third installment in Marissa Meyer's fairy tale/science fiction series. Each book focuses on one main character taken from popular fairy tales. Cinder is based on Cinderella, Scarlet on Little Red Riding Hood, and Cress on Rapunzel. Crescent Moon (Cress) is a Lunar shell who has been living on a satellite all by herself for many years. She is a master computer hacker so she knows a lot of what's going on in the Lunar world as well as on Earth. She's never had much contact with people other than Mistress Sybil, one of Queen Levana's thaumaturges. Sybil gives her the task of tracking down Cinder and Captain Carswell Thorne and she will have to decide if she wants to leave the only world she's ever known or stay safe aboard her satellite.
Some series of books don't have to be read in order but the Lunar Chronicles is one where you MUST read them in order otherwise the books won't make sense. Each book adds more characters and the action and suspense continue to build. Also, in some series, once a character has had his or her own book, sometimes they only play minor characters in subsequent books but that is not the case with the Lunar Chronicles. Take Cress, for example. We not only have Cress's story, we still have Cinder's and Scarlet's stories, along with the supporting characters' stories, so the books are getting longer and there is more than just one storyline to follow which I love!
The Lunar Chronicles are considered YA books but I feel seasoned readers will enjoy these as well. I am in my mid-30s and love them! I feel the content is very appropriate for the grade level and, if my kids want to read these books when they reach the recommended 12-18 year range, I absolutely would let them. I'm a cautious mom and feel the romance in these books is very subtle yet sweet. There is some violence because of the nature of the books but I don't feel it's anything horrifying. When I first started these books, I immediately thought of fairy tales and Star Wars so, if you enjoy those as well, you will most likely like these. Marissa Meyer also inserts some appropriate sarcasm for her characters which I find entertaining too.
I am loving the Lunar Chronicles and the series just keeps getting better and better! Once I start reading one of these books, I can't seem to stop because I get drawn into the stories and I just love them. Marissa Meyer is an amazing author and Cinder was her first book, which was phenomenally written, and I just feel that her writing keeps getting better with each book. Do I recommend this series? Absolutely, without a doubt! Should you read them in order? This is a MUST! I very highly recommend the Lunar Chronicles series and look forward to anything else Marissa Meyer writes!
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