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You stumbled on the finish line there, Marissa

December 2, 2015 by Malin 3 Comments

3.5 stars WARNING! This review WILL contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. Do NOT keep reading this review if you’re not caught up, having read all three previous books! There are also some minor spoilers for this book, but if you skip my list of dislikes, you’ll avoid them. Winter was one of the books I was most anticipating in the second half of 2015. Marissa Meyer’s retellings of Grimm fairy tales with a clever YA sci-fi dystopian twist just kept getting better […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: adventure, CBR7, Dystopian, Malin, Marissa Meyer, romantic, science fiction, the Lunar Chronicles, winter, Young Adult

This book tried to do too much, and mostly failed at all of it. I’m very sadface about it.

November 18, 2015 by narfna 5 Comments

So first of all, as a whole, I really love this series. I love the characters. I love the blending of sci-fi and fairy-tales. I love the epic, space-faring, international, futuristic scope of it. And I liked this book as well, but I didn’t love it. And as a book, and a series-ender, it was far from perfect. I’m really upset about not loving it, especially since each book since Cinder has been better than the last. I really thought Meyer had got her feet […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: fairy tale retelling, Marissa Meyer, narfna, science fiction, the Lunar Chronicles, winter, Young Adult

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