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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
um well it’s too long. there was no need and introducing winter so late was a bad call. i don’t like her or jacin or kai. i did enjoy this book for the most part but yeah.
A solid enjoyable end to the series! Contains flirting, an uprising, mutual pining, girls being cool and awesome interpretations of fairy tales.
"And they all lived happily to the end of their days."
I can't believe this is overrrr! I'll be living in denial about finishing this book. I am still not ready to say goodbye to everyone. There were some really amazing characters in this story, and they'll always have a piece of my heart. I will admit that this book was a bit slow compared to Scarlet and Cress. Initially, I felt like it was taking a while for anything to happen, but once it started going, it would not STOP. So many bad things kept happening to this group. I really just wanted them to catch a break (but this is essentially the story of their life lol)
Out of all the relationships introduced throughout the four books, Winter and Jacin were my least favorite. I think it has a lot to do with Jacin (bleh), his personality was just a miss for me. I didn't like the way he spoke, or how he did things, even though everything he did was for her. Winter was a wonderful character, and she definitely gave the perfect snow white vibes. She was loved by everyone, she was a bit sheltered, but she had a big heart.
↳"I believe they were boys once and they can be boys again. I believe I can help them, and they will help me in return."
In terms of character development, Cinder (our main fmc) has definitely come such a long way. She's been through so much, and she's grown with those experiences. She continued to struggle with the morality of certain situations, and she had to make some really hard choices. I loved seeing her internal struggle as a reader, it felt more relatable than a character who is confident that their choice was the right one.
↳ "Did it matter they were willing to die for her cause? Did it matter that they would sacrifice their own lives so she might succeed? She didn't know. She didn't know.
As a closing note, I just want to say that Cress and Thorne will forever be my favorite. They deserve EVERYTHING. I really wanted like five million epilogues because I just wanted to see so much more. I felt like none of the characters had a moment of peace throughout these four books, and if they did it was so very short lived. I just wish I could have seen what happened after everything (I am trying so hard to be spoiler free), but it's fine my imagination will have to do, I guess.
I miss everyone so much already. Nobody talk to me about this for at least a week. I'll be in my corner crying
I can't believe this is overrrr! I'll be living in denial about finishing this book. I am still not ready to say goodbye to everyone. There were some really amazing characters in this story, and they'll always have a piece of my heart. I will admit that this book was a bit slow compared to Scarlet and Cress. Initially, I felt like it was taking a while for anything to happen, but once it started going, it would not STOP. So many bad things kept happening to this group. I really just wanted them to catch a break (but this is essentially the story of their life lol)
Out of all the relationships introduced throughout the four books, Winter and Jacin were my least favorite. I think it has a lot to do with Jacin (bleh), his personality was just a miss for me. I didn't like the way he spoke, or how he did things, even though everything he did was for her. Winter was a wonderful character, and she definitely gave the perfect snow white vibes. She was loved by everyone, she was a bit sheltered, but she had a big heart.
↳"I believe they were boys once and they can be boys again. I believe I can help them, and they will help me in return."
In terms of character development, Cinder (our main fmc) has definitely come such a long way. She's been through so much, and she's grown with those experiences. She continued to struggle with the morality of certain situations, and she had to make some really hard choices. I loved seeing her internal struggle as a reader, it felt more relatable than a character who is confident that their choice was the right one.
↳ "Did it matter they were willing to die for her cause? Did it matter that they would sacrifice their own lives so she might succeed? She didn't know. She didn't know.
As a closing note, I just want to say that Cress and Thorne will forever be my favorite. They deserve EVERYTHING. I really wanted like five million epilogues because I just wanted to see so much more. I felt like none of the characters had a moment of peace throughout these four books, and if they did it was so very short lived. I just wish I could have seen what happened after everything (I am trying so hard to be spoiler free), but it's fine my imagination will have to do, I guess.
I miss everyone so much already. Nobody talk to me about this for at least a week. I'll be in my corner crying
This book was amazing!!! I'm always afraid of series ending because: 1) No more new books about the characters we know and love 2) I always seem a bit unsatisfied by how the author chose to end the series.
BUT NOT THIS ONE!!
Marissa Meyer did an amazing job ending the series with satisfactory endings. I loved it some much it took less than two days for me to finish. I absolutely love the characters she created and that while they have grown since Cinder they are still there lovable selves. I think out of all the series I've read her ending has been the best.....
But maybe that because we all still know Stars Above is coming out!!!!
BUT NOT THIS ONE!!
Marissa Meyer did an amazing job ending the series with satisfactory endings. I loved it some much it took less than two days for me to finish. I absolutely love the characters she created and that while they have grown since Cinder they are still there lovable selves. I think out of all the series I've read her ending has been the best.....
But maybe that because we all still know Stars Above is coming out!!!!
Something I really loved about this entire series is that although I technically should be able to guess exactly what’s going to happen based on the associated fairytale, I’m always pleasantly surprised. This book was no different! Obviously this is a Snow White retelling, but the plot still had me
800 pages and 3 weeks later but this book was awesome, so no regrets!!
This world is so robust so full of character that i am saddened that this was the completion besides an epilogue that will come out as part of a compilation of her short stories. This series is so amazing that i know i will come back to it time and time again to revisit characters that are so real they've become family.
So I dunno. It was fine, I guess...
I just got caught up in the whole thing where their plan to bring down the evil queen was to show everybody what she looked like without her glamour. Like, it doesn't matter that she murders people, or rapes people, or takes away babies to use as enforced Matrix-style blood donors, or that she enslaves her people or is just generally a terrible person. What changes the war is that SHE'S REALLY UGLY.
And I don't like that, especially when set against a backdrop of all of the glamourous beautiful "princesses" who are the heroines. Even the ones with physical flaws (Cinder's cyborgness, Winter's scars) are nevertheless somehow MORE beautiful because of these, while the queen is ugly. She's the only character who is described as hideous.
And I think there was a point later where someone (Cinder?) points out that it's because she's ugly on the INSIDE that it's important, but after all of the harping on about her outside, it rang a little hollow, like someone read the book and pointed out to the author that maybe this ugly = horrible message wasn't the BEST one to be sending to the intended audience of teenage girls, so she threw something in to soften the blow. I think there was literally one sentence, maybe two, about how it was the ugliness on the inside that mattered.
I still largely enjoyed it, as one enjoys eating popcorn (not particularly nutritious, but hard to put away when there's more available). I liked the whole approach to immigration (but what if the immigrants are BAD? Well, some might be, but lots aren't so stop being racist) and was pleased with where Scarlet and Wolf ended up. I also liked whatsisname's approach to Winter's mental illness (the whole "There's nothing wrong with you. I don't want to fix you. I just want you to be happy").
I guess that's all I have to say.
I just got caught up in the whole thing where their plan to bring down the evil queen was to show everybody what she looked like without her glamour. Like, it doesn't matter that she murders people, or rapes people, or takes away babies to use as enforced Matrix-style blood donors, or that she enslaves her people or is just generally a terrible person. What changes the war is that SHE'S REALLY UGLY.
And I don't like that, especially when set against a backdrop of all of the glamourous beautiful "princesses" who are the heroines. Even the ones with physical flaws (Cinder's cyborgness, Winter's scars) are nevertheless somehow MORE beautiful because of these, while the queen is ugly. She's the only character who is described as hideous.
And I think there was a point later where someone (Cinder?) points out that it's because she's ugly on the INSIDE that it's important, but after all of the harping on about her outside, it rang a little hollow, like someone read the book and pointed out to the author that maybe this ugly = horrible message wasn't the BEST one to be sending to the intended audience of teenage girls, so she threw something in to soften the blow. I think there was literally one sentence, maybe two, about how it was the ugliness on the inside that mattered.
I still largely enjoyed it, as one enjoys eating popcorn (not particularly nutritious, but hard to put away when there's more available). I liked the whole approach to immigration (but what if the immigrants are BAD? Well, some might be, but lots aren't so stop being racist) and was pleased with where Scarlet and Wolf ended up. I also liked whatsisname's approach to Winter's mental illness (the whole "There's nothing wrong with you. I don't want to fix you. I just want you to be happy").
I guess that's all I have to say.