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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I love rereading this series. I love the multi-POVs, the expansion of the world and characters, as well as the continued development of the characters we already know and love. This series truly has some of my favorite tropes of a sci-fi/fantasy series, but it doesn't feel like a copy paste of other sci-fi fantasies. This, along with the interwoven fairy tale re-tellings, just itch me as a reader in the best way. I think this book within the series is truly where the stakes become so much clearer, and the characters finally find their roles within the narrative they are given. Such a great series. ( ) This was the perfect book for me to read on the airplane and while I was vacationing at Disneyland. Fast paced, exciting but not too taxing on the brain. I'm rating this three stars, which implies indifference, or that it's not such a great book, but it's a strong three. I think it's very good for what it does and for what it's trying to be but it's not one of the greatest books I've ever read. The Lunar series feels to me like a TV show that would be on the CW. Pretty teenagers with dramatic/magical powers falling in love while fighting bad guys. It's fluff but entertaining well done fluff so far. I enjoy all of the characters and I am still interested in what happens next and that is seldom the case for me with YA series. I am amazed at how Meyer is taking the tropes from Cinderella and now Little Red Riding Hood and reworking them as good science fiction and YA novels. The dimensionality she is giving the characters, the complexity she is weaving into the story, the humor and pathos she is imparting are all so much more than I had expected from the original premise. Anyone who dismisses this series because it is being marketed as a YA novel is cheating themselves of a wonderful experience. no reviews | add a review
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Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. No library descriptions found. |
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