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Cinder
- 416 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2012
- 33 editions
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1 About this book
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, but mostly a forbidden love, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- Fantasy
- Dystopian fiction
- Young Adult Fantasy
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Social classes
- Overpopulation
2 What to expect
A young adult science fiction retelling of Cinderella, set in a future Beijing troubled by plague and threatened by a ruthless people from the Moon. The heroine is a teenage cyborg and gifted mechanic, looked down on by her stepmother, who meets a prince and finds that her own past matters more than she knew. It is quick, light and romantic, its fairy-tale shape is easy to recognize, and it is the first book of the Lunar Chronicles.
Good for readers who want: a fairy-tale retelling, young adult science fiction, and the start of a gripping series.
3 About Marissa Meyer
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Marissa Meyer
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