Cinder Collector's Edition: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles (The Lunar Chronicles, 1)

5+ fairytale meets sci-fi

Ich weiß ich bin echt spät dran mit dieser Serie und wow ich liebe einfach alles daran! Das Märchengrundgerüst gepaart mit Fantasy und Sci-Fi, die Charactere, die Star warsigen Elemente! Cinder ist eine tolle Prota mit schwieriger Vergangeheit die sich toll durchschlägt und diese Version der Cinderella die selbst ihr Glück schmiedet (Autoreperatur, das Kleid..) Es gibt keine gute Fee. Natürlich war der "Twist" zu erahnen aber das hat mich gar nicht gestört. Außerdem gefällt mir die Kombonation der asiatischen und westlichen Kultur und Kai! OMG was für ein toller Typ! Den Schreibstil fand ich auch sehr gut, die Details, nachvollziehbare dialoge. Ich bin einfach begeistert. Ich freue mich darauf mehr von der Welt zu erfahren und hab mit gleich den ganzen schuber auf englisch bestellt.

happy to say this still holds up 10 years after its release

I finished this a few days ago, but never had the time to actually review it on Goodreads. I never thought I'd enjoy this as much as I did. Yes, it was very predictable, and yes, there are common YA tropes in there, but they were so nicely packaged that I didn't even care about it. I read it, and just wanted to keep reading and keep reading because it was addicting. Even after reading the first chapter I knew: This is going to be one of my new favorites. Even after reading only the first half I went on Amazon and immediately ordered the rest of the series. And Prince Kai ... oh how long has it been since I really loved a male main character? I loved this! Now onto everything else Marissa Meyer has ever written!

3.5

I reeeeally enjoyed this book! It is exciting, sad, surprising and something different!

Really nice!

As all of my Goodreads-Friends are deeply in love with this book, I decided to give it a try. Reading the descrpition, I was sure that I'd love the book cause I really liked the whole idea. Now that I finished the book, it turns out that apparently I don't like the genre. For me, the book was just super-predictable [Cinder is from Lunar? You don't say!! Cinder is princess Selene? I'm so surprised!!]. There was no real plottwist and for me, there is nothing worse than a predictable book (*Cough* The fault in our stars *cough*). I also figured that I don't like the whole setting with androids, hovers and all this futuristic stuff. I literally had to take a few days without reading because I was so annoyed by this book. On a positive note, I really liked the writing-style and prince Kai as well as Iko. But ... that's about it. I really don't know if I'm going to read the second book anytime soon, even though I heard that it's better than Cinder.

THIS BOOK WAS SO GOOD. I EXPECTED THE PLOT TWIST BUT THAT DOES NOT MATTER. HOLY SHIT I DON'T HAVE ANY WORDS TO DESCRIBE MY LOVE FOR THIS BOOK. I LOVE THE FAIRYTAIL "CINDERELLA" IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE. AND CINDERELLA + CYBORG DYSTOPIA = PERFECT.

I LOVED IT I FREAKING LOVED IT. I FLEW THREW THE WHOLE BOOK AND I WAS SO ENGROSSED THAT I ATE ALMOST ALL MY FINGERS, not that I didn't know what will happen, I was kind of like oh yeah I am sure that will happen but the way the story was told was amazing that it kept me inside of it and not just that as soon as i kept down the book to eat or sleep I was just talking about what the story is about, how fantastic the cover is, how amazing the world is. My judgment might be clouded because I have heard everything good about it from the beginning and i was so freaking excited to read it, to hold it in my hands that I almost cried when the mailman delivered the book to me and trust me I keep admiring the book cover (It doesn't come that easily to a graphic designer, trust me). I wanted to savor it so much that i stretched reading it for 2 days i could have finished it in one sitting for sure. Amazing retelling of Cinderella, Disney should have made a live action of this book instead. One more thing- lko I am sure you looked great in that pearl necklace :*

Nice book🤍

I would say it was a slow start, strong finish book✨️📚 I never read sci-fi until now and I must say that I kinda like it😊 it ends in a big cliffhanger and I'm glad I already bought the whole series📚📚📚... I really recommend this book although I have to say that in my opinion, it's not much based on cinderella but that's totally fine🫶🏻 great for sci-fi beginners!