Sunday, April 12, 2015

Cress; the Lunar Chronicles Book 3 / Marissa Meyer / 552 pages

Emperor Kaito, Prince Kai, is only days away from his dreaded marriage to the Lunar Queen Levana.  The marriage "would serve to unite the people of earth and Luna in a way that hadn't been seen for centuries and would no doubt lead to greater appreciation and understanding of each other's cultures.  It was the first step toward doing away with years of hatred and ignorance..."  Who on earth did he think he was fooling, anyway?  He hated Levana.  He hated himself for giving in to her.  But 16,000 earthens had died in a Lunar attack and Luna has a letumosis antidote.  He was saving millions of lives.  He was protecting his people.  Kai fears Levana will try to kill him after she gets the crown and perhaps an heir.  He needs a way to protect himself and his country from a woman who could control his thoughts with a bat of her lashes. ... Meanwhile...aboard the Rampion, Linh Cinder, Captain Carswell Thorne, Scarlet, and Wolf, characters met in books one and two of the Lunar Chronicles, are plotting to overthrow Queen Levana, but first they are going to rescue Cress, a girl imprisoned in a satellite since childhood.  She had been ordered to find Cinder, as she is deemed a threat to the queen.  Instead she has been using her hacking abilities to thwart queenly desires.  Filled with nonstop adventure, budding romances, and fairy tale allusions, this is an engaging read, compelling the reader to read on to book four, Winter.

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