Reviewed by Maxine P.
The book Cinder by Marissa Meyer is extremely good. It is sort of like Cinderella only it takes place in the future and it’s different in many ways. Like Cinder is a mechanic that is also a cyborg and it is set in New Beijing (Beijing in the future). There are androids and lunar people with special powers and a deadly disease, letumosis, the blue fever. When letumosis strikes nearby, and a ruthless lunar queen threatens to take over New Beijing and later the world, Cinder must uncover important (and shocking) secrets about her past in order to save her future. It is like Cinderella because there is a prince and a ball and a stepmother and stepsisters and all that, plus she loses her foot (instead of her shoe) leaving the ball.
I would say the book is for 4th or 5th grade and up, smaller kids might not understand it. It is the first in a series of four but I’m pretty sure the fourth one, Winter, is not out yet. I am currently reading the second one, Scarlet, which is supposed to be kind of like Little Red Riding Hood (but different). I highly recommend Cinder for anyone who likes good stories that combine fairy tales with sci-fi, or just plain old awesomeness.
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