Book: Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer
ISBN13: 9780312642976
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.49 stars
My Rating: 5 out of 5 Japanese rock songs! (long story. One thing led to another on YouTube again)
Oh. My. God. If books were alcohol I would have the world's biggest hangover right now. I need Winter! Now! "expected publication date: November 10th 2015" NOOOO!
*Runs down steps of the palace sobbing and drops an android foot*
This book made me cry. Then again, I cry for almost everything but still! I can't explain why exactly because of spoilers but the end of chapter 53 hit me like the mutant love child of an atomic bomb and a hurricane. So I think in total my emotional outbursts were two sets of crying, a few giggles, and a countless number of awws.
Okay. So cue Cress. A Lunar shell who has been banished to live on a satellite out in space to serve as personal hacker to the Queen of Darkness, aka Queen Levana. She's a sweet, innocent girl that I always imagined as being childlike even though I don't think she was described as being so. But Cress is the kind of girl with a wild imagination and still believes in things like fate and fairytales. Basically she's the anti Cinder. But I think that was a good idea, since between Scarlet and Cinder there is too much 'Grrr! I'm a stone cold badass with lady testosterone up the wazoo' Then again we have Iko too but she's more comic relief and there's not enough of her! Seriously, I wouldn't mind a spin off with just Iko. I want an android bestie!
But anyway, back to Cress. I think her and Thorne may be my favorite couple in the book. Well... Kai and Cinder are pretty sweet. But oh the part about Scarlet being the brightest star in Wolf's sky! I can't choose! I love them all. But at the same time it seems a little too perfect that all the characters happily pair off together. I have a friend who has a strong displeasure to white, heterosexual romance (in books) and in some cases I can see where she comes from but at this point if one of my beloved power couples got 'unpaired' I would be a pathetic combination of livid and distraught.
In book two, I said that I was starting to think the plot was getting too complex and in this one I actually didn't feel that way. I don't know if the issue was resolved or I just got used to it. But I think it's because Meyer works all the old fashioned storybook characters into the book in a way that feels natural. Like all of the characters would be in the story anyway but she decided to make their personalities based off Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel, and in the future Snow White.
So checking in on Cinder! She's going through a pretty standard trope in YA. Which is "Omg. I'm so powerful now. I can do horrible things and it feels kinda good! But i'm still a good girl I swear! Gah. Life is complicated" She's worried about turning into her aunt Levana. By the way, do we get to learn about her mom Queen Channary? She's almost never mentioned her, or her father actually. There are lots of unanswered questions still going on in this series. So i'm dying to know what happens in part 4/ Winter! Erghh. Is there a support group for people waiting for a books to come out? There should be.
Thanks For Reading!
-R
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