gruezelda_reads 's review for:

Winter by Marissa Meyer

4.0

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I would give this one 3.5 stars. Again, great characters and great links to the original fairy tales. This book, however, seems to wander a good deal, dragging our heroes back and forth all over Luna chasing mcguffins to move the plot along. I noticed this tendency too in [b:Cress|13206828|Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)|Marissa Meyer|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1470057005l/13206828._SY75_.jpg|18390772], but it did not seem to be quite as forced as it was in Winter. That said, I was very pleased that the ending wasn't too easy and that the fates of the couples and characters were handled realistically (given that this is of course futuristic fantasy after all). Cress and Thorne were probably my favorite couple of the whole series, though individually I thought Winter's character was the most intriguing. I appreciate story-telling that gives its characters flaws enough to find them annoying even as you are rooting for them to succeed.