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A review by leafblade
Winter by Marissa Meyer
5.0
I honestly can't believe this is over.
I love Cinder so much and I'm so proud of her because we've seen her grown and she's the one that's been constantly there to tell this story to us. She's so brave in the end and she sure does how to make good decisions. People sure do love her, and I'm looking forward to reading the wedding novella. Her relationship with Kai is so pure and strong, she doesn't doubt him for a second, even when Levana manipulates him or when she doesn't know where he is but she knows he must be okay because she trusts him.
Kai is such a brave character, he keeps defying Levana over and over again and he's always there for cinder even when she doesn't need him, because hell if he won't get between trouble and her if he can. I also really appreciate Korrin, how loyal and just a really good friend he is.
If Scarlet Benoit punched me in the face and then shot a hole through my head, my ghost would say thank you. This girl didn't have it easy for one second and she's so strong and always ready to put herself out there if it means helping. She's the boss of a lunar mutant soldier army, man. When I read Scarlet I didn't find myself really interested in her, but in this book I've come to love her.
Wolf didn't deserve any of the things that happened to him: not his mother, not getting modified again, not forgetting, not hating Scarlet. And he went through it all suffering like a little lamb but it's okay because he'll always be loved.
Brief about Iko: I wish I had a friend like her.
Cress was such a real character because she cried and got stressed and scared and tired but she wasn't weak, she could damn well hack her way out of anything and I love her. The references of her being so short not even high heels make her tall cracked me up because DAT ME. I'm sure she'll get through what happened to her in the end of this book. I wish she doesn't get tired of Thorne after hearing him apologize so much.
Thorne makes it seem like he's this bad boy captain rude but he's just a puppy and I feel like when we see him through his pov it's when it shows the most. I am so fucking done with what Levana made him do.
Winter was a really sad character. If I thought of her for more than five minutes, I'd cry. She's such a tragic character and I can't help but think that she would've been better off living like a normal girl. I honestly want to wish her the biggest of lucks with that treatment she's getting. She has Jacin, so she'll be okay.
I think jacin is the one I liked the least of them all, but that doesn't mean I didn't like him at all. He was good, just not great. He was there for Winter when she needed him and I found that to me extremely cute. Also can we talk about how everytime someone is like okay you two split up he's like LIKE HELL WE ARE and just drags winter around.
I found this book to have a really real (YEAH HUH) depiction of friendship, let it be between boy and girl, cousins, boys, girls, couples. One of the moments that struck me the most was when Scarlet hugs Cinder from behind (indeed I'm almost crying now only thinking about it), because that's what friendship is like. And when a boy and a girl touched as in hugging or patting the other on the back or having to drag the other because they were wounded, most of the times they weren't a couple. And I find it tiring that everytime in a large group some people end in trouble, it's always a couple. That's too much odds playing at once. I loved how this book didn't make that weird. Friends were friends and they were times of war and people helped each other without making a fuss of it. And when in the end they show up at Cinder's all together? That was the most beautiful thing I've ever read.
To summarize: this book was the perfect end to this series.
I love Cinder so much and I'm so proud of her because we've seen her grown and she's the one that's been constantly there to tell this story to us. She's so brave in the end and she sure does how to make good decisions. People sure do love her, and I'm looking forward to reading the wedding novella. Her relationship with Kai is so pure and strong, she doesn't doubt him for a second, even when Levana manipulates him or when she doesn't know where he is but she knows he must be okay because she trusts him.
Kai is such a brave character, he keeps defying Levana over and over again and he's always there for cinder even when she doesn't need him, because hell if he won't get between trouble and her if he can. I also really appreciate Korrin, how loyal and just a really good friend he is.
If Scarlet Benoit punched me in the face and then shot a hole through my head, my ghost would say thank you. This girl didn't have it easy for one second and she's so strong and always ready to put herself out there if it means helping. She's the boss of a lunar mutant soldier army, man. When I read Scarlet I didn't find myself really interested in her, but in this book I've come to love her.
Wolf didn't deserve any of the things that happened to him: not his mother, not getting modified again, not forgetting, not hating Scarlet. And he went through it all suffering like a little lamb but it's okay because he'll always be loved.
Brief about Iko: I wish I had a friend like her.
Cress was such a real character because she cried and got stressed and scared and tired but she wasn't weak, she could damn well hack her way out of anything and I love her. The references of her being so short not even high heels make her tall cracked me up because DAT ME. I'm sure she'll get through what happened to her in the end of this book. I wish she doesn't get tired of Thorne after hearing him apologize so much.
Thorne makes it seem like he's this bad boy captain rude but he's just a puppy and I feel like when we see him through his pov it's when it shows the most. I am so fucking done with what Levana made him do.
Winter was a really sad character. If I thought of her for more than five minutes, I'd cry. She's such a tragic character and I can't help but think that she would've been better off living like a normal girl. I honestly want to wish her the biggest of lucks with that treatment she's getting. She has Jacin, so she'll be okay.
I think jacin is the one I liked the least of them all, but that doesn't mean I didn't like him at all. He was good, just not great. He was there for Winter when she needed him and I found that to me extremely cute. Also can we talk about how everytime someone is like okay you two split up he's like LIKE HELL WE ARE and just drags winter around.
I found this book to have a really real (YEAH HUH) depiction of friendship, let it be between boy and girl, cousins, boys, girls, couples. One of the moments that struck me the most was when Scarlet hugs Cinder from behind (indeed I'm almost crying now only thinking about it), because that's what friendship is like. And when a boy and a girl touched as in hugging or patting the other on the back or having to drag the other because they were wounded, most of the times they weren't a couple. And I find it tiring that everytime in a large group some people end in trouble, it's always a couple. That's too much odds playing at once. I loved how this book didn't make that weird. Friends were friends and they were times of war and people helped each other without making a fuss of it. And when in the end they show up at Cinder's all together? That was the most beautiful thing I've ever read.
To summarize: this book was the perfect end to this series.