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kcdayton 's review for:
Wires and Nerve, Volume 1
by Marissa Meyer
If you've read the other Cinder books, this one won't be much of a surprise.
The main character is Iko this time, and she's as endearing as ever.
Iko's tasked herself with gathering up the wolfy men, created by Levana to be her soldiers.
The other characters are side characters as well. We get glimpses of post-Winter life for all of the main characters.
There's three main tensions in this book (and probably this series). 1, gathering up the wolfy soldiers before they kill people. 2, as a corollary to 1--getting people to trust the Lunar people again, after centuries of mindfuckery. 3, much more personally--Iko getting to be human, or at least getting respected as a human.
Just like in the Cinder books, there's politics and romance and it's set in a futuristic Silver Milennium-style world. (Well aware that's like saying it's a wet watery ocean, but not everyone is familiar with Sailor Moon's Silver Millenium.)
The author has said she's a huge fan of both Sailor Moon and Firefly, and that clearly comes through in these books.
My biggest gripes have always been these: one, it's so hetero it's unbelievable, and two, the stakes never feel believably high. Sure it's got some shock factor, but the heroes always survive and the bad guys always die or get locked up.
Bonus points for making it very clear that Kai is East Asian and giving Winter and Iko dark skin. Cinder should look more East Asian than she does, but I'll let it slide. FOR NOW.
I'll pick up the sequel when it pops up at the library, and while I enjoy these books, they're a lot like cotton candy: all fluff, no substance.
Clarifying my rating: it's not a three-star because I love Iko and because everyone wasn't white. My bar is so low. T_____T
Also is anyone else expecting the secret of Iko to be that she started life as a REAL GIRL? Because that's all the twist for stories about androids ~*~with a secret twist~*~ ever is. Someone come up with a new twist, plzkthx.
The main character is Iko this time, and she's as endearing as ever.
Iko's tasked herself with gathering up the wolfy men, created by Levana to be her soldiers.
The other characters are side characters as well. We get glimpses of post-Winter life for all of the main characters.
There's three main tensions in this book (and probably this series). 1, gathering up the wolfy soldiers before they kill people. 2, as a corollary to 1--getting people to trust the Lunar people again, after centuries of mindfuckery. 3, much more personally--Iko getting to be human, or at least getting respected as a human.
Just like in the Cinder books, there's politics and romance and it's set in a futuristic Silver Milennium-style world. (Well aware that's like saying it's a wet watery ocean, but not everyone is familiar with Sailor Moon's Silver Millenium.)
The author has said she's a huge fan of both Sailor Moon and Firefly, and that clearly comes through in these books.
My biggest gripes have always been these: one, it's so hetero it's unbelievable, and two, the stakes never feel believably high. Sure it's got some shock factor, but the heroes always survive and the bad guys always die or get locked up.
Bonus points for making it very clear that Kai is East Asian and giving Winter and Iko dark skin. Cinder should look more East Asian than she does, but I'll let it slide. FOR NOW.
I'll pick up the sequel when it pops up at the library, and while I enjoy these books, they're a lot like cotton candy: all fluff, no substance.
Clarifying my rating: it's not a three-star because I love Iko and because everyone wasn't white. My bar is so low. T_____T
Also is anyone else expecting the secret of Iko to be that she started life as a REAL GIRL? Because that's all the twist for stories about androids ~*~with a secret twist~*~ ever is. Someone come up with a new twist, plzkthx.