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At a glance: young adult, romance, sci-fi, futuristic
From the author's website
In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, 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, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only 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 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.
Luna comments
This is the third book of the Lunar Chronicles. I've already talked about the second book here.
Each book in this series is more or less based on a fairy tale. In Cress, a girl is locked up in a satellite for years, & used for her technological skills (which in many sci-fi or futuristic stories translates to hacking). Obviously she is a very futuristic Rapunzel.
Once again, the thing that draws me to this series is mainly the plot & the world. How this series is structured is that, with each book, the author properly introduces a new heroine (& a corresponding male protagonist). So by the time of book three, that's three of them, each with their own stories & their roles in the plot. It means a lot of travelling around the world, separating, finding each other again, carrying out activities in big groups with various roles allocated to them, so on. It makes the plot rather complicated & all over the place (in a good way) & quite interesting.
Although I think that the characters are starting to get more interesting - in this book, a new heroine is properly introduced (she's made cameo appearances before). Her name is Cress, & having lived in a spaceship by herself for most of her life, with only occasional visits from her overseer, she's a bit innocent & naive. Her knowledge of the outside world, especially Earth, mostly comes in the form of fiction, & hence her view of the world is very romanticised. So she & her occasionally inappropriate reactions were fun to read about :)
There are some other interesting characters too. Her corresponding male protagonist, Thorne, is a slippery character with a smooth tongue & comic relief value. So I like him too. He actually appeared in Scarlet, but there's more of him to see in this book. There's also Princess Winter, who makes her first appearance in the series. She's a bit loony, which is rather symbolically suitable since she's the princess of Luna (the moon). And then Winter's corresponding male protagonist, who acts as if it'd kill him to be nice.
As you can see, entertainment value (in the currency of potential for humour) is a major factor influencing whether I like a character or not.
The excitement is also building up now, as Lunar Queen becomes increasingly dissatisfied with the state of affairs on Earth (because she still isn't in power yet), & I'm really anticipating an all-over-the-place, lots-of-things-happening fourth book.
On another note, I don't particularly like the typeface used for the text of this series. It's pretty, & suits the futuristic setting well, but it feels less comfortable & flowing compared to the more typical-looking ones.
Closing
I would recommend this series for the plot. =]
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