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A review by syl_val15
Cress by Marissa Meyer
5.0
5 STARS!
'Cress' is the third entry in 'The Lunar Chronicles', a well-renowned bestselling book series,
which retells the story of Rapunzel, a famous folklore and a fairy tale.
Being the Rapunzel analogue, we follow the long blonde locks bearing Cress, the protagonist of the book,
who herself isn't rationally different from its original role model,
here depicted as a highly skilled computer hacker who is stuck on a satellite floating in the outer space and revolving around the planet of Luna,
often visited by her keeper, Sybil, the Dame Gothel analogue character, who severally taunts and enslaves her, similar to the fairy tale.
And then, there's Thorne, a character originally introduced in the second novel as a sarcastic and jocular woman-crazy battleship cadet,
lifted to a co-leading character in this story while being unveiled as the prince analogue from the original Rapunzel fairy tale,|
whose ship with him along was sent up to the space satellite to indirectly come to Cress' rescue.
However, encountering Sybil along the way came to a high price when Thorne tragically is caused to lose eye-sight in the hands of the evil woman.
Locked and trapped in an "escape pod", Cress and Thorne are fired away, landing aggressively on the Sahara Desert.
Contrary to the power-girl protagonists of the previous two novels, Cress is rather shy, naive and sensitive, yet very hopeful in a world where her fright brings her into certain struggles. Abilities that are rarely portrayed in leading women nowadays as if it isn't appealing for the female of the species to be helpless. A very peculiar character with brilliance covering her overall that resonates with me hence I find myself relating to her more than I feel with the others.
In the case of Thorne, who was an overconfident swashbuckling scoundrel and a womanizer with no sensitively romantic side to him in his appearances prior to this book, he was, for the first time, in love in every imaginable way with Cress whom he found different and uniquely dearly and delightful, bringing out another side out of his characteristics that were never explored before. Nevertheless, however, boys will be boys. Despite his feelings for Cress, he'd never admit it while having a scuffle with his heart and mind... And the pride of his machismo. It kind of makes my heart fluster, but as the old saying goes... "It is what it is."
I found 'Cress' terrific. An outstanding novel where the emotional angles never let the reader remain detached as long as one's concentrated with the read rather than casually passing over the words like a pedestrian. This one is my favourite of all the three in 'The Lunar Chronucles' series that I've read. Perfection in every manner. Rating: Five out of Five stars! Highly Recommended.
'Cress' is the third entry in 'The Lunar Chronicles', a well-renowned bestselling book series,
which retells the story of Rapunzel, a famous folklore and a fairy tale.
Being the Rapunzel analogue, we follow the long blonde locks bearing Cress, the protagonist of the book,
who herself isn't rationally different from its original role model,
here depicted as a highly skilled computer hacker who is stuck on a satellite floating in the outer space and revolving around the planet of Luna,
often visited by her keeper, Sybil, the Dame Gothel analogue character, who severally taunts and enslaves her, similar to the fairy tale.
And then, there's Thorne, a character originally introduced in the second novel as a sarcastic and jocular woman-crazy battleship cadet,
lifted to a co-leading character in this story while being unveiled as the prince analogue from the original Rapunzel fairy tale,|
whose ship with him along was sent up to the space satellite to indirectly come to Cress' rescue.
However, encountering Sybil along the way came to a high price when Thorne tragically is caused to lose eye-sight in the hands of the evil woman.
Locked and trapped in an "escape pod", Cress and Thorne are fired away, landing aggressively on the Sahara Desert.
Contrary to the power-girl protagonists of the previous two novels, Cress is rather shy, naive and sensitive, yet very hopeful in a world where her fright brings her into certain struggles. Abilities that are rarely portrayed in leading women nowadays as if it isn't appealing for the female of the species to be helpless. A very peculiar character with brilliance covering her overall that resonates with me hence I find myself relating to her more than I feel with the others.
In the case of Thorne, who was an overconfident swashbuckling scoundrel and a womanizer with no sensitively romantic side to him in his appearances prior to this book, he was, for the first time, in love in every imaginable way with Cress whom he found different and uniquely dearly and delightful, bringing out another side out of his characteristics that were never explored before. Nevertheless, however, boys will be boys. Despite his feelings for Cress, he'd never admit it while having a scuffle with his heart and mind... And the pride of his machismo. It kind of makes my heart fluster, but as the old saying goes... "It is what it is."
I found 'Cress' terrific. An outstanding novel where the emotional angles never let the reader remain detached as long as one's concentrated with the read rather than casually passing over the words like a pedestrian. This one is my favourite of all the three in 'The Lunar Chronucles' series that I've read. Perfection in every manner. Rating: Five out of Five stars! Highly Recommended.