Why I picked itI'm making my way through the Lunar Chronicles right now because I had heard so many amazing things about it! I'm definitely glad I started it! summary(Few possible Cinder spoilers if you haven't read the book. I tried to keep it as spoiler free as possible, but beware just in case.) This is a retelling of the classic fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood. Scarlet's grandmother is missing. The police are no help, so she ends up enlisting the assistance of a suspicious yet seemingly okay street fighter called Wolf. Together they make their way to where a gang is holding her grandmother and trying to get information out of her that Scarlet is convinced she doesn’t have. At the same time, Cinder is on a mission with a new accomplice (that was forced on her) to stop Emperor Kaito from marrying the Lunar Queen Levana. She has secrets, lots of them, and she's trying to figure out a new way to end Queen Levana's reign. Together, she and Captain Thorne end up on a search for Scarlet and her grandmother as well, meeting up with Scarlet and Wolf to continue their quests. what I likedAnother great book. Unlike with some series where the middle books can at times get a little boring, Scarlet was not that way. Even though I went straight from Cinder into Scarlet, I still was surprised by some of the things that developed throughout the book. Normally I pride myself in being able to read things and predict what is going to happen extremely early, but it took me a couple of different references to something before I realized what was going to happen. So, props, Marissa Meyer. You've been able to slow me down in predicting the direction of your books! Wolf is probably one of my favorite characters. There is an internal battle happening with him at all times, and I love to see him go back and forth between the two instincts. Though I knew which was going to win out (sorry, Marissa, that you couldn't hide from me), it was still a real enough struggle for me to sympathize. The jumping back and forth between two main storylines plus another one or two support storylines was very smooth. Transitions were good and made sense, and the storylines meshed well. I wasn't feeling like the jumps back and forth were confusing at all, and all of the information that came into the picture happened at the right time. I'm also starting to see a subtle trend that I didn't actually pay attention to until I started Cress. I love that these fairytale retellings are very similar to the actual fairytales, yet instead of "Prince Charming" saving the "Damsels in Distress" the girls save themselves. They're very strong, independent women, and I love that they can do things on their own. They just happened to fall in love with a guy along the way. what I didn't likeSomething I've found that Marissa Meyer does extremely often is that every time a character gets angry, upset, or stressed, they immediately have a headache that comes on. I'd like to see some different reactions to these emotions that fits with each character instead of having them all battle these headaches. Maybe nervous ticks or quirks that they did when they experienced these. The worldbuilding was a little better in this book, mainly just because information keeps coming in about the different provinces around the world as well as more information about Luna too. However, there are still times I wish that I could get a little better descriptions. On the flip side, I love the development of all the different types of characters in the world: humans, lunars, cyborgs, the Lunar army Levana is creating, etc. Overall Impression 🌟🌟🌟🌟I'm gonna stick with 4/5 stars. As with Cinder, I loved this book and didn't have many complaints. However, the books are not my ABOSOLUTE favorite. They are so good. But not 5/5 good yet. As I keep reading the series, I'm becoming more and more impressed (especially with some of the seemingly not important details in the first book that are becoming important now. THAT takes a lot of worldbuilding, character building, and forethought!). Maybe the overall series will end up a 5/5 rating.. We will see!
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