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    Cress

    Written by Marissa Meyer

    Narrated by Rebecca Soler

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateFeb 4, 2014
    ISBN9781427236289
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    Marissa Meyer

    Marissa Meyer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles, as well as Heartless and Renegades. She lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her husband, twin daughters and three demanding cats. She's a fan of most things geeky (Sailor Moon, Firefly, any occasion that requires a costume), and has been in love with fairy tales since she was a child.

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    • 4/5
      Where is the best place to lock someone away, away from everyone and everything? Why not inside a satellite, orbiting Earth in the middle off space?Cress has been locked away inside her satellite for seven years, just her and her computer. She is a shell with amazing computer and hacker skills. For years she has helped hide Lunar ships heading to Earth and programmed technology to help Levana spy on the rulers of Earth for years. However. she's not loyal to Luna.Now she has the opportunity to escape her satellite prison with the help of Linh Cinder and her friends. If they can avoid Mistress Sybil and the Lunar Guard. I enjoyed this book, perhaps even more than Scarlet, book two of the Lunar chronicles. The books change between five or so different characters during the story, which, in my experience can make a story confusing or annoying, but Cress was neither. The story remained interesting, the action continuous, and all of the characters I have grown invested in were included and remained intriguing. The only thing that I truly didn't like I can't discuss without spoiling the book. The only other thing that slightly aggravated me was that it ended in such a way that I am upset I have to wait a while to get my hands on the next book Winter. But, of course, that is actually a good thing. I am left craving more and hoping it wont be too long of a wait. I would recommend this book to anyone who loved the first two in the series.stephanietiner.weebly.com
    • 4/5
      Fantasy fairy tale and taking control of your life> Cress has lived for all of her life in solitary confinement on a satellite where the Lunar Queen Levana has placed her. Cress is expected to monitor earth, cloak lunar war ships from Earth’s discovery. She contacts Cinder in the hope that Cinder, Thorne and the others will rescue her. Unfortuantely the timing for the rescue is lousy and she is thrust into a new reality of survival. Fascinating and involving. Not a book that can be easily set aside. I am anxiously waiting for the next book in the series.196
    • 5/5
      How awesome was this book. It took me a while to finish it because honestly I didn't want to finish it, I didn't want the story to end. It was that awesome. And then, at the end, I find out that there's another book coming out?! I'm so excited. How awesome. Awesome. How about I say awesome a couple more times. ANYWAYS, onto the review part of this thing. Cinder and her gang are in a spaceship. They're floating around in space. We meet a new character, named Cress, who was in the first book, but I didn't remember that. She's basically Rapunzel, only she's a shell, a Lunar with no powers, and she's an insane hacker. She's locked up in her tower, a satalite orbiting the earth, and being forced to hack into earthen things by Sybil. Who knew she was up there? The queen definitely did. She'd been stuck there since she was seven, her only company little Cress, her own voice recorded to talk back to her on her computer. I'm thinking she was really lonely. Anyways. Scarlet is missing, Wolf is depressed, and Cinder is trying to fight the queen. Iko has a new body, there's tons of action in this book, and I couldn't put it down at all. The ending is surprising, but not too surprising, if you know what I mean. I'm really trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum, and it's insanely hard, haha. Anyways. If you haven't read this series, I highly recommend it, it's amazing. This book is awesome, as I've said many times in this small review. I'm obsessed with this series, and I'm going to be depressed for a while when it comes to an end, which I really hope it doesn't. Have fun!Thanks for reading! This review is also posted on my blog, where you can see all my other reviews since I started my new blog. (': radioactivebookreviews.wordpress.com
    • 4/5
      This was my favorite of the Lunar Chronicles so far. The characters are more established and the storyline intertwines them well.
    • 5/5
      MUCH BETTER THAN Scarlet. Though Cress is a lovelorn romantic in love with the idea of Croswell Thorne, this has more of Iko and Cinder in it, so it is automatically better. It continues Cinder's fight to dethrone Levana and save the world and her love Kai.
    • 4/5
      The 3rd in the fairy tales series continues with a vengeance! We meet Cress, a shell imprisoned on a satellite to watch Earth and report back to the Queen. Feisty while being a bit socially awkward, she joins up with our bands of heroes and soon becomes instrumental in saving Earth.If you thought Scarlett was a nice take on Little Red Riding Hood, then Cress will make you a believer for Rapunzel and her particular prince. Meyer does a nice job of creating a unique story for each character while interweaving each story into the greater plot. I look forward to Winter in 2015.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the book but everytime mental illness was presented negatively I felt really uncomfortable.
    • 4/5
      This is a good third book in the series, and read just in time for the next book coming out next month. Cinder and Kai will always be my favorite but I enjoyed the romance between Thorne and Cress, mostly because I like Thorne so much. We also get a hint at Winter, who is the main protagonist in the next book. I enjoy how, while each book focuses on a new heroine - a new fairy tale - they are all interwoven into a bigger story. I also enjoy how these fairy tale retelling are truer to the Grimm style fairy tales and less the disneyfied versions. I could pick out things about the fairy tale that I only could because I've read the Grimm versions. This series is gearing up for what should be a fantastic climax. I'm looking forward to it.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely LOVED it! I love how things are coming together and those items that were little and insignificant have become major players and examples in the bigger picture!
    • 5/5
      I love this series! I can't wait for Fairest and Winter to come out. I have not been hooked on a YA series like this since Harry Potter and Flavia de Luce. I hope she keeps writing similar tales.
      Cress is being held hostage by Thamaturge Sybil. With the help of a D-COMM chip that Cinder found in Nainsy, Cress helps Cinder and her group. Unfortunately, when they come to rescue her from her prison satellite, things go awfully wrong. With the gang separated, how are they going to stop Kaito & Levana's wedding?
    • 4/5
      Cyborg Cinderella? Check. Little Red Riding Hood's granny as a decorated ace fighter pilot? Check. Rapunzel as a computer hacker? Triple check! There is no end to the fun in this series!That said, the series isn't without a few problems. I realize that it's largely acceptable to call women girls, but why are male teens of the same age categorized as men? Why throw in a token female soldier if you're going to refer to soldiers, on the whole, as men? As in, "We don't have enough men on the ground." The is a kink we need to iron out of our collective lexicon if we want to applaud our modern focus on equal opportunity.As for our titular computer hacker, apparently Cress can sing while she works. I know many programmers and software engineers, and while some might periodically hum while they're mulling a point over, I don't know any who will actually while they work. Can you sing while hashing out your algebra homework? How about while writing a book? It would take a special kind of focus, and while there might exist a person who can do this, I find it difficult to believe.On the bright side, the relationships between the characters feel pretty genuine. These are young adults who get on each other's nerves, but they care about one another. Most adults reading these books will find it hard to believe that people of this age can rise to the challenges that are meeting our protagonists, but I think we, as a modern society, don't give the younger class enough credit. While I find it distressing that many authors have trouble writing women past the age of 25, I'm happy to see those who will give teens and young adults the benefit of the doubt.All in all, I can't wait for Winter to hit the shelves next year!
    • 2/5
      Okay, so I like the female characters who actually have skills and the ability to protect/save themselves (even though most of the time, it's the men who do the saving), but the effect is lessened by the fact that every single one of them seeks emotional comfort from their romantic relationships to men. There are really only three female friendships in this series so far, one between a human and an android and two in which one of the parties is being held captive or otherwise owned by the other, and even these revolve around conversations about male characters.I have nothing against romance in fiction (okay, maybe I'm a little bit against it because it sets up an unrealistic expectation for young women who are already poised to seek out excitement and fluttery hearts and being swept off their feet when lasting romantic relationships are more about balancing the checkbook and who's going to take out the garbage, with a little of the weak-knees stuff thrown in there when there's five minutes to spare between Netflix and bedtime), but can't there be something besides romantic relationships in a novel? Now that my daughter (and my son) is reading all of these YA novels, I would really love for her to see examples of positive, supportive female friendships. This series---at least in the first 3/4 of it---doesn't remotely offer this. I don't think it would even pass the Bechdel test.Aside from the relationship stuff, this novel was readable but pretty predictable. The foreshadowing is so obvious, I can almost hear the dramatic music as the camera pans in. That said, I'm already reading the fourth book, so who's the sucker in this scenario?
    • 4/5
      WOW, this series just gets better with every book! Marissa Meyer does an awesome job of giving each character a unique voice and their POVs are just awesome. The world she has built is so intriguing and I cannot wait to read more! The way Marissa Meyer is weaving this story is so enticing and I literally cannot put her books down.

      In this instalment, the tensions are rising and to be honest, we all know Cinder's first plan really sucked, and then she was an idiot and did not trust her instincts. The plot did improve from there though. I really liked Cress and enjoyed her storyline. This book was full of ups and downs, twists and turns and I am so excited for Winter to be out soon!

      Probably a better review to be out soon...my mind is muddled from all my reading today.
    • 4/5
      CRESS is the third book in the Lunar Chronicles. You must read CINDER and SCARLET to avoid massive confusion. The story begins with Cress. Cress is a Lunar shell who has been placed in a satellite orbiting Earth to spy on Earth for the Lunar Queen. She is alone in the satellite and has been for seven years. She is about sixteen years old. She is also an accomplished hacker and a fan of fairy tales and opera. Her only visitor is the Thaumaturge Sybil Mara who comes to bring her supplies, take blood samples, and give her orders. She has been gathering information about Cinder as she has been commanded but she hasn't been passing it on. In fact, she has been helping Cinder hide. Meanwhile, Cinder, Thorne, Scarlet and Wolf are orbiting in Thorne's stolen ship and trying to come up with a plan to keep Emperor Kai from marrying Queen Levana. Cinder doesn't want to be a hero but it looks like the job is hers anyway. She is frightened and very out of her depth. She has just learned that she is a Lunar and the missing Princess Selene who is the rightful heir to the Lunar throne. They attempt to free Cress from her satellite but in the effort Scarlet is captured and taken to Luna and Thorne and Cress are in the satellite when it crashes in the Sahara Desert. An injured Wolf, Cinder, Iko and a captured Lunar soldier are the only ones left on Wolf's ship. They decide to go to Africa to find Dr. Erland to get medical help for Wolf. Cress and a now-blind Thorne have to travel through the desert to try to find help. While Thorne tries to convince Cress that he isn't the hero she has imagined, Cress is still convinced that he is the handsome hero who freed her from her tower and that they are destined to be together.This story weaves Cress's adventures, Cinder's adventures, and even what is happening to Kai as he prepares for his wedding. We see very little of Scarlet once she gets to Luna but what we do see are examples of Lunar contempt to humans.This story was exciting and really moved the plot along. It was filled with danger and romance. It is the third book in a series of four so nothing was really resolved. I can't wait to read WINTER to see how all these plot threads come together.
    • 4/5
      Another great installation in a great series. The whole lunar chronicles is a great fusion of fairy tale, science fiction, YA literature and strong female characters. I love how Meyer is able to blend the damsel in distress with the girl who saves herself all in the same story. Looking forward to reading Winter with mixed feelings: sad that is is the last book, but excited to finally find out how it all ends!
    • 5/5
      This is by far, the best book of the series so far, although all of them have been good. I love finding stories with such original twists on the classic fairy tales and this series is doing just that.
    • 4/5
      In the continuing and intriguing adaptation of familiar fairy tales (into a future era) we are introduced to "Rapunzel" aka Crescent Moon. It took me quite a bit longer to read this installment than the first two did. With so many characters and their own plot lines, it was harder to keep focus. I am looking forward to how this will be wrapped up, especially now that things are getting serious. The emperor has been kidnapped and the Lunar queen is retaliating. Really looking forward to Winter.
    • 5/5
      Mit ihrem dritten Roman aus den Lunar Chronicles entführt uns die Autorin in eine sehr unterhaltsame Interpretation des Märchens von Rapunzel und während Scarlet ein paar Längen hatte, geht es in Cress wieder ordentlich rund! Inklusive einer guten Portion Humor.In Cress laufen viele Fäden aus den beiden Vorgängern zusammen ohne dabei jedes Rätsel vollständig aufzulösen. Es ist gerade genug um erfreuliche A-ha!-Effekte genießen zu dürfen, aber nicht so viel, dass man nun das Gefühl hätte die Reihe hätte nichts mehr für einen weiteren Band zu bieten. Denn da gibt es noch immer zahlreiche lose Fäden, auf die man sich in Winter freuen kann.Neben den neuen Erkenntnissen die man in Cress erlangt, gibt es noch etliche andere Dinge, die einfach Spaß machen und die Neugier oben halten. Unsere Gruppe ungeplanter Gefährten wird bei einem missglückten Rettungsversuch getrennt. Einen Teil verschlägt es in die Sahara, einen anderen nach Lunar und wieder einen in eine kleine Oasenstadt in Afrika. Dies ist, neben Szenen die sich im Weltall abspielen, auch der maßgebliche Handlungsort. Leser der Reihe werden sich erinnern, dass Afrika der Ort ist, wo die Seuche erstmals ausbrach und wo Dr. Erland seine neue Basis eingerichtet hat. Entsprechend gibt es also wieder neue Erkenntnisse zu der tödlichen Plage, die inzwischen eine Besorgnis erregende Mutation angenommen hat. Hinzu kommt ein herrlich spaßiger Einbruch in den Palast des Kaisers, der Verkleidungen, Ablenkungsmanöver und geheime Schleichwege beinhaltet.Für alle kurzhaarige gibt es außerdem lustige Einblicke in die Probleme die man als langhaariger Mensch so hat. Denn natürlich hat Cress als Verkörperung von Rapunzel eine ordentliche Mähne auf dem Kopf.Auch sehr schön: das bisher nur nebenbei erwähnte Cyborg-Gesetz wird näher unter die Lupe genommen.In Cress sind eine Menge unterschiedlicher Charaktere unterwegs. Umso interessanter ist es zu sehen, wie die Autorin es schafft jeder Figur einen sehr eigenen Charakter zu geben. Die Unterschiede werden deutlicher, je mehr Figuren es werden. Eine witzige Eigenart ist dabei, dass die klassische »Damsel in Distress« aka. »Jungfrau in Nöten« fast ausschließlich die »Prinzen« sind. Kai ist gezwungen Levana zu heiraten und muss vor ihr gerettet werden, Thorne ist durch einen Unfall auf die Hilfe von Cress angewiesen, die eigentlich davon geträumt hat, dass er sie retten würde und der neue noch etwas nebulös gehaltene Charakter, Jason, ist eine Marionette der obersten Thaumaturgin Sybil Mira. Einzige Ausnahme bildet das Gespann Scarlet & Wolf, denn hier ist Scarlet wie immer diejenige in Nöten – what a surprise …Interessant daran ist auch, dass Cress sich selbst als eine perfekte Besetzung für die Damsel in Distress sieht. Sie ist seit ihrer Kindheit auf dem Satelliten eingesperrt und hat keine Chance aus eigener Kraft von dort zu entkommen. Sie ist sich ihrer Lage vollkommen bewusst, noch dazu hatte sie bisher keinerlei Kontakt zu anderen Menschen und sie ist eine Shell ohne die Fähigkeiten die den normalen Lunars inne wohnt. Der einzige Grund weshalb Königin Levana sie bisher am Leben ließ ist die Tatsache, dass sie eine hervorragende Hackerin ist und von ihrem Satelliten aus die Schiffe Lunars vor dem Radar der Erde verbergen kann – neben anderen nützlichen Tricks.Trotz all dieser Einschränkungen und Nachteile, ist Cress aber mehr als fähig sich durchzuschlagen und sich zusammen mit Thorne durch die Sahara zu kämpfen, sich gegen Menschenhändler zu wehren und die ungewohnte Situation zu meistern. Obwohl man es bei ihr verstehen könnte, wenn sie angesichts ihrer fehlenden Übung im Umgang mit Menschen mehr Hilfe bräuchte, ist sie weitaus Fähiger, als sie sich selbst zutraut und das lässt Scarlet einmal mehr zum schwächsten Charakter dieser Serie werden. Zum Glück taucht Scarlet nur in wenigen Szenen auf, so dass man ihretwegen nicht ständig die Augen verdrehen muss.Die restlichen bereits bekannten Charaktere halte ihre Linie aus den Vorgängern. Thorne bekommt noch etwas mehr Substanz und bleibt ein sehr sympathischer Schwerenöter, dessen Herz edler ist, als er zugeben würde. Wolf ist weiterhin im Kampf mit sich selbst und natürlich in Sorge um Scarlet. Es gibt sogar ein paar Szenen zwischen Scarlet und Wolf, da möchte man Scarlets Figur nett finden.Iko erreicht eine neue Höchstform und sorgt wieder für einen Großteil der humoristischen Einlagen und Cinder ist weiterhin die coolste Cyborg-Prinzessin unter der Sonne.Unterm Strich hat Cress wieder allerhand zu bieten, vor allem eine Menge Spaß und Action. Wem die ersten beiden Bände gefallen haben, der wird von Cress nicht enttäuscht werden und ein herrliches Crossover der verschiedenen Märchenfiguren finden. Eine klare Leseempfehlung!
    • 5/5
       I love Marissa Meyer. She spins the most fantastical tales with aliens, fairy tales, androids, werewolves, etc. They are very fast paced and I couldn't put it down. Counting down to the next book!
    • 4/5
      A lot of action, not a quiet moment to spare. Entertaining read. Didn't find Cress as engaging as the other girls though.
    • 5/5
      This is another fantastic sequel to Cinder.

      I still love Cinder. She's my favorite character. She wants so badly to do the right thing, but is terrified that using her Lunar gift, even for good, will turn her into Levana. While I trust Cinder not to let the power corrupt her, I think that she would be less of a person if she didn't have these doubts, cliché though they may be (seriously, I have never read about a character who suddenly acquires great and dangerous powers who doesn't worry they're going to turn into a monster.) Cinder had more character growth then she'd had in Scarlet, coming to the point where she accepts her role as the only person who can save Earth and Luna. Like many other heroic characters before her she continues to suffer severe guilt when the villain kills innocent people to get at her. Again, cliché though it may be I would have issues if she didn't feel guilty about it. It's not her fault that Levana is evil, but she unintentionally put into motion the events that led to Levana murdering the villagers in Africa. It really isn't her fault because the only other choice she had was to go willingly and be murdered, loosing both Earth and Luna their best chances to free themselves from an evil ruler. Yet, her guilt about these people's murder only makes it more apparent that she could never be Levana, who would never hesitate to use others as a shield intentionally, never mind by accident. I can't wait to see Cinder's character continue to develop in the series.

      We didn't see a terrible amount of Kai. We saw that he still has feelings for Cinder and that he hated going through with the wedding, but felt he had no choice. I felt like Torin was, if not necessarily a fatherly character, at least an uncle-ish one. He certainly does seem to care for Kai, and I liked seeing their roles together with the almost-family dynamic.As someone who actually finds Torin an interesting and likeable character, I am really hoping that his 'temporary' control of the Eastern Commonwealth doesn't turn into something more sinister, like a takeover or him working with Levana. It took long enough, but it was nice to see Kai and Cinder meet again. I'm looking foreword to seeing how their relationship develops in the next book.

      We didn't see much of Scarlet in this book, but what we did see of her was enough to make me think I may have been wrong in my opinion of her in my review of the last book when I said that she; "didn't quite live up to my first impression of her; a gun-toting, smart-aleck badass who was quickly disarmed by Wolf's charms." She actually did seem more like my first impression of her in Cress then she did in most of Scarlet. She still cared very deeply about Wolf, but I don't have a problem with her having romance, just with her being completely blinded by it. It seems as though she'll be a key player in Winter, and I hope that she continues to keep the toughness that she found in this book.

      I feel so bad for Wolf. He cares about Scarlet more than anything else in the world, and is unable to focus when he is worried about her. Sadly, do to his apathy because of Scarlet's absence, he didn't really have much character development in this book.

      Thorne is something else. I really like him as a character, but I feel like we wouldn't get along very well at all if we met in real life. I think that his having to rely on other people (and Cress in particular) helped to give him a great deal of character development. Oh don't get me wrong, he's still an arrogant jerk who thinks too much of his own charm, but at least he was forced to see his vulnerability and realize that sometimes he will have to rely on others. Hopefully he doesn't loose that when he regains his sight. (I assume that he will regain his sight since the Prince did in the original story of Rapunzel.) I liked that he tried to be honest with Cress, though I'm not sure how I feel about their relationship just yet.

      Cress was an interesting addition to our main characters. She's sweet, naïve, and hopelessly infatuated with Thorne. I tend to be cautious of any relationship that starts with infatuation, especially as deep an infatuation as Cress has for Thorne. I think that before Cress can develop real love for Thorne she will have to be have her infatuation disillusioned (if that sentence makes any sense.) She almost did when she saw Thorne and the escort droid who's body became Iko, but even after that she was willing to follow him blindly again. For all that I loathe infatuation relationships I do think that Cress and Thorne could be good for each other. I think That Thorne, despite his denials Thorne may have been falling in love with Cress already, which just leaves Cress to have her infatuation stripped so that she can be open to real love.

      I was quite disappointed with Doctor Erland's story arc. I was not surprised at all with Cress being his daughter. I'd already guessed that. But I love family reunions, and I don't appreciate when they are cut short by a member of the family dying. Since Cress didn't immediately experience joy at having found her father, and the fact that they would probably would have had to work through some issues before they were able to have a strong father-daughter relationship is what, more than anything, is what I didn't like about his abrupt death, though I expect that if Cress had accepted and returned Erland's love I still wouldn't have been happy with his almost immediate dying. And after all the time Cress spent imagining her family, she couldn't say anything except goodbye to Erland. Not 'I love you.' Not 'I've missed you.' Not 'I'm surprised and somewhat glad that I was taken from you by force and you didn't just hand me over to be killed like I had thought you had.' Just 'goodbye.' And then he died. It's sad, because he was an interesting character, and the only loving father that any of the characters had (at least that we've met. Kai seemed to be close to his dad but he was already dying the only time we met him, the short story about Wolf's short story implies that his father was loving, but we only saw him for two seconds in a short story and Wolf was being forcibly taken away from his family, and while it's possible that Thorne had loving parents, his early law-breaking would suggest not,) and it would have been nice to see just one loving parent in the story. Dr. Erland is a very complex character with weird motivations and justifications, and I guess I just wish that he would have lived a little longer. Maybe been able to make up for some of the human-rights violations he participated in? He certainly seems to have good intentions, but that does not mean that the evils he sanctioned.

      We meet two new characters, Winter and Jacin, both of whom seem very interesting, and I think we're pretty much guaranteed to see more of them in Winter, which I am looking foreword to reading.
    • 5/5
      I'm giving this a five, but I think it's really closer to a 4.5, or a even a 4.75. I think what I love most about this book, is what I didn't love about for about the first third or half of the book, which was? Cress. Cress is not my kind of heroine, or girl. But, honestly, I can roll with that. Because she was incredibly well fleshed out, and she was the most realistic case of what a very isolated, shut in of dreamer girl *should be* after having no human contact for almost all of her life.

      Once I started rolling with liking that all the girls in this story are very much not papercut out copies of each other, very drastically in some places, it even made Cress fit five stars better in my head. Because she another kind of girl, and another kind of story and they are all weaving into each other. I love Scarlet, and I was deeply pained for Wolf, and what Wolf, goes through in this book, and i like that that part of the story is not neatened up or played down. I love Cinder continuing to grow and make hard choices, even against friends and the boy she's in love with.

      I'm EXCEEDINGLY interested in Winter, and a book from Winter's perspective given that we've now seen she's an entirely unreliable narrator. I'm so ready. So, so, so, so ready for another girl, another type of girl, another type of fairytale twist, and all of these girls to save the universe together.
    • 5/5
      This. Was. Absolutely. FABULOUS!!!! I love the romance and that Cinder is starting to know what she's doing. Thorne is becoming a lot more selfless and I can not wait for the next book!!!
    • 5/5
      It was horrible, HOOOOOOREEEEIBBBLLLE.


      Or possibly that's just because now I need to wait another year to read Winter. WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN, MARISSA MEYER???
    • 4/5
      The Lunar Chronicles continue with a strong new heroine and a new fresh perspective on the story. I get a kick out of the clever retellings and the unexpected twists.
    • 3/5
      This was probably a 3.5 but I'm so tired of the kick-ass princess story. I do enjoy each iteration of the twisted fairy tales and how they fit into larger story arc of the series. So sad that Cress had her hair cut.
    • 4/5
      Appreciative of this story for temporarily distracting me from grief over a kitty. I've always had an affinity for Rapunzel given my proclivity for long hair - going to be her this Halloween, actually! It appears I'm a sucker for fairy tale gestures.#drunkreview
    • 5/5
      So this is the 3rd book in the Lunar Chronicles, and I am loving this series so much! Cress is a retelling of Rapunzel, but the characters from Cinder and Scarlet continue into this story. Instead of being trapped in a tower, Cress has been trapped on a satellite orbiting the moon and has been forced to be a spy/hacker for Queen Levana for the past 7 years. Cinder and friends plan to rescue Cress and continue with their plans to stop the wedding between Emperor Kai and Queen Levana, but things don't go as planned. The group gets all split up and now someone else has been taken! I cannot wait to read the next book!
    • 5/5
      Cress is stuck in a tiny satellite by herself, but that doesn’t stop her from risking everything to warn Cinder about Queen Levana’s evil plan or becoming a skilled hacker. She has been ordered to track down Cinder and Thorne, but instead she tries to contact them to come rescue her. When they try and things go badly, the group is separated. Cress and Thorne are left to survive in the desert after Thorne goes blind in the crash, Scarlet is captured by the enemy, and everyone else tries to come up with a plan to rescue their missing companions and save Kai from his upcoming wedding to Queen Levana. They manage to infiltrate the palace and have a plan to kidnap Kai and launch their rebellion while also discovering secrets about why the plague exists, but not without some losses along the way.

      The third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cress continues the story, this time adding the fairy tale Rapunzel to the mix. Cress is completely different than Scaret and Cinder in the books before her, making her more of a damsel in distress figure, but still a strong character who is determined to do the right thing no matter how scary it is. When Meyer talks about the characters who used to be viewpoint characters, they still feel like themselves even seen from the eyes of someone else. The earlier problems of pacing and predictability improved from the first two books. The platonic relationships instead of love triangles are also refreshing, although it is hard to believe that everyone in the group manages to find the one person that is perfect from them out of everyone. There are many things that are a little too convenient, like how out of everywhere on the earth Cress and Thorne manage to crash in the same desert that Cinder and the rest of the group happens to be in. However, fans of the series will enjoy the new characters and the old ones and want to get their hands on a copy of the next book, Winter, as soon as they can.
    • 4/5
      I continue to love this series...of course I was blissfully ignorant that this was not the last book, although I began to suspect as much about halfway through. Now I have to wait again! But wait I will, because they're just so good. Great characters, nicely complex plotting, and lots of fun.