She’s looking for answers about her mysterious past, and it seems like Scarlet’s grandmother may hold some answers about where Cinder came from, how she came to be a cyborg, and why she doesn’t have any memories prior to her cyborg surgeries.Īgain, this was a perfect book to listen to while working. Meanwhile, Cinder has broken out of jail after getting arrested at Prince Kai’s ball. After Scarlet’s grandmother is kidnapped, she and Wolf make their way to Paris trying to find her. If you guessed that the fairy tale here is Little Red Riding Hood, you would be correct.

I thought that this book was fast-paced and fun, and the references to different plot points of the fairy tale were clever without getting overly cute.īook number two introduces Scarlet, who meets a mysterious prize fighter named Wolf while making deliveries from her grandmother’s farm. One day the handsome Prince Kai steps up to her mechanic shop to get an android repaired, and hijinks ensue. Additional embellishments to flesh out the sci-fi setting: there is an extremely deadly and communicable pandemic sweeping the Earth, and Earth has been on the brink of war with Luna have been on the brink of war for several generations. If it’s not obvious, the fairy tale being referenced here is Cinderella. Because of laws restricting cyborg rights, Cinder is forced to turn over all the money she makes to her stepmother while also following all of her orders.

The first book in the Lunar Chronicles follows Cinder, who is a cyborg working as a mechanic in New Beijing.

Each book builds on the last while introducing a character based on a classic fairy tale heroine, but the story is set in a futuristic science fiction version of Earth and its former Lunar colony, now an independent (and antagonistic) country. The Lunar Chronicle books absolutely fulfilled my requirements, and after enjoying Cinder I went on to spend many enjoyable hours listening to these books while going on walks, doing dishes, cooking dinner, etc. Also I figured – if it’s good enough for the 12-year-old, it’s good enough for me! I was craving a fast-paced book that would be the right amount of complex to be interesting but still simple enough to follow in audiobook form. I picked up the first book of Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, Cinder, after one of my coworkers recommended it by telling me how much her 12-year-old loved the book.

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