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."
- Goodreads
THE STORY:
First of all, I would like to start by saying that Rapunzel is potentially my favorite fairy tale ever, so I was ridiculously excited for this book, and it definitely didn't disappoint. Obviously I won't dive into too many details so that I won't spoil anybody, but I think this is my favorite book out of the series so far. I loved getting to see more of the characters, and I loved having Cress introduced, and seeing how she saw the world. My love affair with this series is only growing stronger.
THE CHARACTERS:
We had two new characters who were REALLY introduced in this book, and those were Cress and Jacin, and of course we had the whole cast of previous characters, who are all fabulous. I think it is only fitting to start with the title character. Cress is incredible. She is relatively sane considering her time spent alone in her satellite, but still just ever so slightly aligned with crazy. I loved that she was such a fangirl, even if it did get a little bit annoying in the beginning of the book, because it just showed even more of her character. I also loved seeing her grow throughout the book. She goes from being completely obsessive and scared of everything to being rather calm, and willing to put up a fight to save herself, as well as her new found friends.
With Jacin, I still don't really know how I feel. He is a servant of Winter, and he joins the crew for a while as their pilot. We don't really get into his mind much, or see what he is thinking, or even whose side he is really on, but he was an intriguing character that kept me on my toes while reading.
I absolutely loved how big of a part that Thorne played in this book, and I am officially in love with him. Favorite character by far, and he is worthy of many pterodactyl screeches. I can't wait to read even more about him in Winter, and hopefully I can trust Marissa Meyer with the life of my favorite character. I am leaving my heart in her hands. Of course I enjoyed the return of Cinder and Kai, especially seeing them around each other again, and seeing how they act around each other, which has always been one of my favorite things about this series. I adored Iko in this, and loved that she got to play a bigger part again in this book compared to Scarlet.
MY THOUGHTS:
Basically, if you couldn't already tell, I absolutely adored this book. The Lunar Chronicles are probably going to end up being included in my favorite series of all time, and I am just ridiculously excited for Winter to come out next year. The love affair shall continue, and I don't think that it will be stopping any time soon.
STAR RATING: ★★★★★
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