Cinder
By Marissa Meyer
I love a good “girl power”
story. When I was in my senior
year of college, I was an RA for a freshman women’s dorm and my group of
residents used to tease me because I was always posting articles and posters to
boost their confidence as young women taking on the world. College had given me that gift and I
wanted to pass it on to them right from their very first year. Cinder is a modern twist on the
Cinderella fairy tale set in a future that is post WWIV. Earth’s countries have realigned in the
peaceful aftermath and the Moon is populated by a race of people with
extraordinary powers and adversarial tendencies.
Cinder herself is no
waif-like wanabee princess waiting for a price to rescue her from the doldrums
of her arduous life. She is an
extraordinarily talented cyborg mechanic who works in the market to earn the
money to support her stepmother and stepsisters. Unlike the traditional tale, she is very close to one of the
sisters while maintaining the traditional antagonistic relationship with the
other as well as with her stepmother.
Marissa’s tale is a non-stop whirl of adventure as Cinder does indeed
encounter her Prince, whom she treats as if he were any other customer, only to
end her day slamming her doors as her neighbor drops from the highly contagious
plague. What ensues is a trail
that leads her to discovering what she is made of and who she is.
The next book in the series,
Scarlet, looks like it will be an exciting traipse through the woods to
grandmother’s house and it will be nothing like any of the Red Riding Hood
tales you’ve ever read before! The
wolf is most certainly going to be a fun surprise in this version of the story.
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