Cinder / Marissa Meyer / 390 pgs.

For the PopSugar book challenge, I fulfilled the "read a book based on a fairy tale" challenge by listening to the audiobook version of Cinder by Marissa Meyer, the first book in the popular YA series, The Lunar Chronicles. The narrator, Rebecca Soler, does a wonderful job of making all the voices of the characters come alive and sound interesting. The book is a perfect mix of fairy tale and futuristic sci-fi dystopia and I enjoyed it immensely. I'm already listening to the second book of the series, Scarlet.


As you can imagine, Cinder is based loosely on the tale of Cinderella. A cyborg 16-year old girl, Cinder, is a virtual slave to her step-mother and two step-sisters in New Beijing. She works as a mechanic, fixing droids and portscreens when she meets the handsome Prince Kai. Although Earth has enjoyed over 125 years with no wars, it has succumbed in the last decade to a deadly plague. Prince Kai must deal with his ailing father, the Emperor, and an evil queen from the Moon with the ability to "glamour" people into doing exactly what she wants.