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Winter
by Marissa Meyer
I apologize in advance for the messy review I am going to make, but I am a mess of feelings right now and I doubt I will be coherent any time soon. Let's hope this works!
You guys have realized by now that I was absolutely blown away by the Lunar Chronicles series, and it was no different with Winter. This book was huge, but it was the finale this series needed and I wouldn't have edited out a page even if I could have.
After seeing plenty of Earth in [b: Cinder|36381037|Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)|Marissa Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1507557775s/36381037.jpg|15545385], [b:Scarlet|13206760|Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)|Marissa Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470056982s/13206760.jpg|18390691] and [b: Cress|13206828|Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)|Marissa Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470057005s/13206828.jpg|18390772], in Winter our setting finally changes substantially into space, and not just floating in the galaxy with the Rampion. We finally get to see Luna and its inhabitants.
The society we find can be easily split down the middle: there is a working class who is highly limited in its freedoms (basically they are slaves in all but title), and the Lunar aristocracy, frivolous, superficial and cruel.
It is here, within the walls of Luna's castle, that we meet Princess Winter, Levana's stepdaughter and our Snow White in this story. Once again, I loved how Marissa Meyer incorporated elements of the classic tale that were easily recognizable, but spun in a way that was surprising and new. For starters, Princess Winter is a woman of color, and to have a woman of color be the most beautiful one in the kingdom is a strong, beautiful message for all the girls out there. Princess Winter loves apple sweets and she loves animals (she has a managerie filled with them!) She is also incredibly kind and empathic, to the point where she refuses to use her Lunar gift, and would rather go crazy with Lunar sickness than manipulate someone. Sounds like our Snow White, but better, right? And our Winter also has a beautiful, dashing prince! Except he's not a prince, he's a guard--our very own Jacin Clay!--and they haven't just met in an eye-rolling-insta-love way, but they've been friends since they were children. And it's that long time friendship and affection that makes it so that Jacin would do anything for Winter, and Winter for Jacin. Ship? Absolutely, gentlefriends!
But Jacin and Winter were not the only ones to make my heart flutter in this book. With the war against Levana as a backdrop of suffering, we get to follow Cinder and Kai as they try to save the world together, and with it their love, we follow Scarlet and Wolf as they struggle to find their way back to one another (and curse Marissa for giving them so much pain!), we follow Captain Carswell Thorne, known womanizer and heartbreaker, struggle with his insecurities and his flaws as his feelings for Cress grow higher than Rapunzel's tower.
Will they succeed?
I can't tell you. You'll have to read the book!
You guys have realized by now that I was absolutely blown away by the Lunar Chronicles series, and it was no different with Winter. This book was huge, but it was the finale this series needed and I wouldn't have edited out a page even if I could have.
After seeing plenty of Earth in [b: Cinder|36381037|Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)|Marissa Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1507557775s/36381037.jpg|15545385], [b:Scarlet|13206760|Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)|Marissa Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470056982s/13206760.jpg|18390691] and [b: Cress|13206828|Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)|Marissa Meyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470057005s/13206828.jpg|18390772], in Winter our setting finally changes substantially into space, and not just floating in the galaxy with the Rampion. We finally get to see Luna and its inhabitants.
The society we find can be easily split down the middle: there is a working class who is highly limited in its freedoms (basically they are slaves in all but title), and the Lunar aristocracy, frivolous, superficial and cruel.
It is here, within the walls of Luna's castle, that we meet Princess Winter, Levana's stepdaughter and our Snow White in this story. Once again, I loved how Marissa Meyer incorporated elements of the classic tale that were easily recognizable, but spun in a way that was surprising and new. For starters, Princess Winter is a woman of color, and to have a woman of color be the most beautiful one in the kingdom is a strong, beautiful message for all the girls out there. Princess Winter loves apple sweets and she loves animals (she has a managerie filled with them!) She is also incredibly kind and empathic, to the point where she refuses to use her Lunar gift, and would rather go crazy with Lunar sickness than manipulate someone. Sounds like our Snow White, but better, right? And our Winter also has a beautiful, dashing prince! Except he's not a prince, he's a guard--our very own Jacin Clay!--and they haven't just met in an eye-rolling-insta-love way, but they've been friends since they were children. And it's that long time friendship and affection that makes it so that Jacin would do anything for Winter, and Winter for Jacin. Ship? Absolutely, gentlefriends!
But Jacin and Winter were not the only ones to make my heart flutter in this book. With the war against Levana as a backdrop of suffering, we get to follow Cinder and Kai as they try to save the world together, and with it their love, we follow Scarlet and Wolf as they struggle to find their way back to one another (and curse Marissa for giving them so much pain!), we follow Captain Carswell Thorne, known womanizer and heartbreaker, struggle with his insecurities and his flaws as his feelings for Cress grow higher than Rapunzel's tower.
Will they succeed?
I can't tell you. You'll have to read the book!