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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles

by Marissa Meyer

Cinderella in a science-fiction future

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Cinderella in a science-fiction future

In a crowded New Beijing of humans and androids, Cinder works as a mechanic while a plague spreads across Earth and people from the moon watch from space. The Cinderella framework is recast through her cyborg identity and uncertain past, with the royal court and an interplanetary threat bringing the fairy-tale elements into a broader struggle over Earth’s future. Her connection with Prince Kai places personal loyalty and freedom alongside the story’s larger questions of survival and belonging. The book opens Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, a series that reimagines familiar fairy tales in a futuristic setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fairy-tale adaptations
  • Readers who enjoy science-fiction settings with androids, cyborgs, and lunar societies
  • Those looking for a Cinderella retelling that begins a series

Themes

Fairy-tale adaptationIdentity and belongingTechnology and societySurvival and duty

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Book overview

Soon to be adapted into major motion picture!

The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by the "Queen of fairytale retellings," Marissa Meyer! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space.

"An interesting mash up of fairy tales and science fiction . . . a cross between Cinderella, Terminator, and Star Wars." --Entertainment Weekly


The prince straightened, forcing her gaze to follow him. "You're not quite what I was expecting."

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.

With high-stakes action and a smart, resourceful heroine, Cinder is a Cinderella retelling that is at once classic and strikingly original.

Don't miss the other books in The Lunar Chronicles series:
Cinder
Scarlet
Cress
Winter
Stars Above
Fairest
Wires and Nerve Vol. 1
Wires and Nerve Vol. 2: Gone Rogue

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