Tag: the lunar chronicles
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My Review of Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles
If you have been checking in with this blog over the last few months, then you will have seen I reread The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. If you don’t know what that is, the Lunar Chronicles is a YA sci-fi fairytale retelling series spread across four books, blending elements of the traditional narrative structures…
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It All Comes Down To This In Marissa Meyer’s Winter
What a whirlwind end to a fantastic series! Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles comes to a stunning conclusion with Winter, a whopping 823 pages that is bound to have you immersed, excited, and eagerly anticipating the ever-changing action for Cinder, Scarlet, Wolf, Cress, Captain Thorne, Kai and Iko. Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cress Will Have Your Heart in Your Throat
Cress, Marissa Meyer’s third instalment in the Lunar Chronicles, is where the conflicts really heat up. Everything about this book carries high-stakes, making the interactions incredible, the action intense, and the characters raw and complex beyond the immediate issues at hand. It is exhilarating, immersive, and an absolute must-read. Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives…
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My Favourite Reads of 2024
It’s time to share my 2024 favourites! I am very happy with the books I read in 2024, finding so many gems and enjoying far more genres than expected. I have rated a far few books a 4.5 or 5 stars and I highly recommend them all. This list goes in chronological order of when…
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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer May Be My Favourite Lunar Chronicles Book
Continuing with Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles, Scarlet takes us away from the Eastern Commonwealth and drops us into rural France, giving us another side of Princess Selene’s story. I love the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, and seeing it brought into a sci-fi space context made it all the more enjoyable. In fact, it…
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Marissa Meyer’s Cinder is My Kind of Fairytale Retelling
When it comes to fairytale retellings, I hold Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles in high favour. When I first read Cinder I was astounded by the brilliance of this story world and the simple what if? What if we took Cinderella and made it sci-fi? What if we took cinderella and made her a cyborg? What…