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A review by eesh25
Cress by Marissa Meyer
5.0
Oh. My. God. This series is driving me crazy!
This is such a good series and this book was amazing. By far the best one in the series and the wait for book 4 is going to be agonising.
The story is going on strong and there's so much happeneing and they keep on almost-dying and I'm freaking out because I want the characters to be okay. To be happy. They're all such great characters and I love them all.
I especially love Kai (for some reason) and I want to tell Cinder that if she doesn't want him, I'll keep him. Though I don't see that happening. *Remorseful sigh*
Also, I never thought I'd say this, but I liked the damsel in distress. And I the main reason for that is that even though she needs saving at times and she's not very stable emotionally, she's not really a damsel. She kind of wants to be because, that way, at least she won't be hopelessly stuck like she was before. And I understand that. Her life has been so influenced by fairytales and movies and she doesn't know reality. She's never experienced it. She did monumentally well for someone who was trapped in a satellite for 7 years. Alone.
One last thing I wanna talk about is that I love how Marissa Meyer incorporates pieces of the original fairytales into the stories. The things that most retellings whould have glossed over after coming so far away from the originals (I mean, Cinderella was a Cyborg! You can't get much farthar than that.)
Things like Cinderella losing her shoe (or foot, in this case), the wolf disguised as grandma, Cinderella's dress (or gloves, in this case) being ruined by the mean step-sister, Repunzel's hair being used as rope. All those things are nice, little surprises. It proves that these aren't just retellings because of some vague things like step-sister, step-mother, red hood and long hair. She really does include many of the fairytale details into her books along with making the characters (the females especially) stronger.
Excited to meet Winter. She seems like a very interesting character.
Update: I forgot to say that I absolutely LOVE Marissa Meyer for intoducing sci-fi werewolves.
This is such a good series and this book was amazing. By far the best one in the series and the wait for book 4 is going to be agonising.
The story is going on strong and there's so much happeneing and they keep on almost-dying and I'm freaking out because I want the characters to be okay. To be happy. They're all such great characters and I love them all.
I especially love Kai (for some reason) and I want to tell Cinder that if she doesn't want him, I'll keep him. Though I don't see that happening. *Remorseful sigh*
Also, I never thought I'd say this, but I liked the damsel in distress. And I the main reason for that is that even though she needs saving at times and she's not very stable emotionally, she's not really a damsel. She kind of wants to be because, that way, at least she won't be hopelessly stuck like she was before. And I understand that. Her life has been so influenced by fairytales and movies and she doesn't know reality. She's never experienced it. She did monumentally well for someone who was trapped in a satellite for 7 years. Alone.
One last thing I wanna talk about is that I love how Marissa Meyer incorporates pieces of the original fairytales into the stories. The things that most retellings whould have glossed over after coming so far away from the originals (I mean, Cinderella was a Cyborg! You can't get much farthar than that.)
Things like Cinderella losing her shoe (or foot, in this case), the wolf disguised as grandma, Cinderella's dress (or gloves, in this case) being ruined by the mean step-sister, Repunzel's hair being used as rope. All those things are nice, little surprises. It proves that these aren't just retellings because of some vague things like step-sister, step-mother, red hood and long hair. She really does include many of the fairytale details into her books along with making the characters (the females especially) stronger.
Excited to meet Winter. She seems like a very interesting character.
Update: I forgot to say that I absolutely LOVE Marissa Meyer for intoducing sci-fi werewolves.