A robotic Cinderella!?!? What? The book
C
inder
b
y Marissa Meyer is about a robotic
Cinderella. Overall, I would rate this book a 5 out 5. You would like this book if you like broken
fairy tales. This is a fantasy book that can rival
H
arry Potter
.
This book is the beginning of a series that shows the main characters, Cinder, struggles.
This book is set in the future after WWIV. Just from that one sentence, you can tell that there
has been some disagreement between the countries. There has been a plague spreading
through the Eastern Commonwealth, the place that Cinder lives. The king has caught the
plague and is about to die. The prince is not ready to become a king yet. The prince came to
Cinder, the best mechanic in the commonwealth, to ask her to fix one of his androids. He jokes
around and says that there is important information that will help kill the plague. Even though he
was disguised, she still recognized him because of her cyborg eyes. This is a broken fairy tale
because in the book, she goes to a ball and meets the prince, but it goes all wrong because their are people there that want to kill her. That is not a happy ending like in the real Cinderella.
Another example of this book being a broken fairy tale is that there are cyborgs, and
hovercrafts, and a plague that is killing everyone! This book has all of this and still manages to
incorporate a Cinderella theme. This book is kind of like
L
eviathan
if you have ever read that
book. They both have other worldly inventions, but
C
inder
is set in the future while
L
eviathan
is
set in the past. They both have people who are pretending to be other people. This is a great
book and you will not be disappointed if you read this book