Publisher:
Puffin
Release
Date: 6th
February 2014
Edition:
UK paperback,
purchased
Incarcerated
in a satellite, an expert hacker and out to save the world – Cress isn’t your
usual damsel in distress.
Cress
grew up as a prisoner. With only netscreens for company, she’s forced to do the
bidding of Queen Levana. Now that means tracking down Cinder and her handsome
accomplice Emporor Kai. But little does Queen Levana know that those she seeks,
and the man she loves, are plotting her downfall...
As
paths cross and the price of freedom rises, happily ever after has never seemed
further away for Cress, Scarlet and Cinder.
This
is not the fairy tale you remember. But it’s one you won’t forget.
It’s rare to find a series
where each instalment blows me away, but Cress
has proved The Lunar Chronicles to
be one of those series.
The third heroine of this
motley crew is thrown into this mix with a bang. I love Cress. She’s a Lunar
hacker abandoned in space with a reliance of fantasy and imagination to get her
through the lonely hours. I felt weirdly in tune with her need for that. Her knowledge
of how great adventure and love stories play out and the way she reminds
herself how things should go because that’s what happens in the stories is
something I definitely understand, and I imagine you all do too. Her undying
crush on Thorne and her imaginings of him contrasting with the real deal were something
we’ve all had to face, but I’m still holding out for a fairytale ending to that
one. They just work.
Cinder, Scarlet and now Cress
are an unlikely group of friends, but they couldn’t achieve what they do alone.
Each girl is different is talent, skills, background, situation and history and
yet they are all essential to the plot to rid Earth of Queen Levana. Without even
one of their skills, the crazy stunts they pull in Cress just wouldn’t work and I wouldn’t have been left (mentally)
clap-ping and cheering at the end, reading for Winter already. Speaking of Princess Winter, we finally get wind of
her in this instalment of the series, and she is by far the...most different of
the girls and I honestly don’t know how she will fall into the plots and plans
of the final book, but I’m bloody excited to see how that crafty Marissa Meyer
does it.
With all of the dastardly plans
and ridiculous timescales to fit them to, along with their deadly repercussions,
had me a tense, wired mess for the last hundred pages or so. It was brilliant; I
really love it when books have such a physical effect on me. And really, if you
knew what was going on there, you’d totally understand...
Cress
was tense,
high octane and full of intrigue and danger and I’m both eager to read Winter and finish this wonderful series
and hating the fact that there’s only one more book.
Sophie
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