Cinder
Cinder by Marissa Meyer is $2.99! This is the first book in the Lunar Chronicles series. Set in New Beijing, a fictional world of the future, Cinder is influenced by several fairy tales, so if you’re a sucker for retellings, you may want to give this is a try. The first book does end on a cliffhanger, but the next one is on sale! The original, scifi setting really shines according to readers, though the “plot twists” are a little predictable. It has a 4.1-star rating on GoodReads.
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer is $2.99! This is book two in the Lunar Chronicles series. This is the continuation of Cinder‘s story and carries on with the fairy tale theme, introducing Scarlet (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood). It has a 4.3-star rating on GoodReads, which is a higher rating than the first. For those who have read the books, would you say the series gets better?
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of Marissa Meyer’s bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison–even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.
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Cress by Marissa Meyer is $2.99! This is the third book in the Lunar Chronicles series and is the latest book out. The fourth one won’t be published until Fall 2015, which means you have plenty of time to catch up! Some found Cress, the series’ latest character, a little on the annoying side, but many thought this was another great continuation. It has a 4.4-star rating on GoodReads.
In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.
Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who’s only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.
When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.
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Enchanted by Alethea Kontis is $1.99! This is another YA, fairy tale-inspired book and it’s the first in the Woodcutter Sisters series. Carrie reviewed the book previously and gave it a B+:
There’s a lot of mutual saving in this book and interestingly they mostly work together to save other people, not each other. I like this couple, I like the story, and I’m even more excited to read the next book, Hero. Each story is supposed to work as a stand alone with a shared work and some shared characters, so I’m excited. I don’t think this book is perfect (it’s really busy and rushed) and I don’t think it’s for everyone (melodrama) but I do think that Alethea has earned her tiara.
It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.
When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.
The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers?
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I bought “Cinder” at a previous sale. Haven’t read it yet, but glad to have the next two now so I can do a book binge if the urge occurs. 🙂
Do read Enchanted! It’s very smart and unique. I am eagerly about to dive into the third book in the trilogy.
I did a review of Cinder not too long ago. It was so good, and I loved the twist that was added to the story. It was sort of like Sailor Moon meets Cinderella. It was so much fun to read, and I loved Prince Kai. ^_^
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While Cinder is good, the next two books are even better. The plotting and fairytale tie-ins of Scarlet and Cress are just brilliantly done. I just finished Fairest, a prequel to the last book in the series Winter. I’m too old to fan girl…. well, maybe not…. can’t wait…. I checked them out from the library, so I’m popping off now to buy all of these.
I see Meagan McKinney’s Till Dawn Tames The Night is a KDD. Is this old school worth looking into?
I’m a bit burned out on YA as a rule, but seriously, The Lunar Chronicles are soooooo great. Each book gets stronger. Highly recommend them.
And I am interested in reading Enchanted, I’ve heard good things.
Levana (the Lunar Queen’s) story is out. Fairest came out this month, to hold us over until the final book. Excellent series! Love the world building and how strong the Heroines are.
YES! I read The Lunar Chronicles last summer and LOVED it. I enjoyed Cinder. Scarlet was ‘okay’. (It didn’t draw me in until near the end, and it felt more geared towards the Twilight crowd). Cress was amazing, a really fun, non-stop adventure!
Meyer does a great job of giving the title characters and their storylines equal time and development, even though they each have their own book named after them. I’m in agony that we have to wait so long for ‘Winter’. That girl seems nuts.