Cinder by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I absolutely loved this book. I have been seeing so much marketing for it, but I was very skeptical about how good it would be.This since it re-telling of Cinderella in a futuristic dystopian age was absolutely riveting. I was pleasantly surprised when I read it that apparently this book is to have three sequels.
When looking at the cover you may think Dorothy's Ruby red slippers and to be honest the story is kind of a mash-up between Cinderella - complete with a real prince- and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz trying to find her way back home. The book is set in a future China called New Beijing. Cinder is a cyborg adopted by a family five years prior, but is now the sole provider for her lazy and mean stepmother and spoiled stepsisters. Cinder is an incredibly gifted mechanic, but all of her earnings go to her family. When Cinder finds and old car in the junk yard she begins to think of desire for escape could come true, but during that same visit her stepsister and only friend, Peony, discovers that she has contracted the plague. This disease, brought to earth by the Lunars, citizens of the moon, has been ravaging the human civilization and the survival rate is virtually zero. Cinder's stepmother blames her for Peony's illness and decides to sign Cinder up for cyborg experimentation - a search for a cure as well as a gift to society. She is carted off to the Palace where she encounters the Prince Kai, heir to the empire and deeply vested in the search for a cure to the plague.
This is a pivotal moment in the book where Cinder has freedom within her grasp, only to find out that she isn't who she thinks she is and there is no place on Earth where she belongs. Read this book to find out what happens to Cinder and Prince Kai.
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