Square Fish Cress: Book Three of the Lunar Chronicles

The third book in the Lunar Chronicles series. Cress (short for Crescent) is a seventeen-year-old girl who for seven years of her life been trapped in a satellite hacking codes and computer systems for the Lunar Queen and has been a prisoner for the rest. Hardly daring to hope that she has any chance of escape, Cress does the dirty work for the royals of Lunar, tracking, covering and de-coding. But from the crew of this one ship comes a response. They are coming to rescue her, so now she gets to travel all the way down to Earth for the first time in her life with the man she has grown to love threw stalking and background information- Captain Thorne - as Cinder, Scarlett, Kai and Wolf all need her help to take down the evil Queen Levana. Over my time reading about this world, I have grown to love it. Although it is still hard for me to picture some of the items, objects, transport and even some of the people in this series, but I'm getting used to the idea of it and it kind of reminds me of a cleaner, slicker version of Star-Wars. I really liked how we got to travel a bit more and saw how the whole world is not taken over by futuristic setting and technology. I kind of wanted to see a bit more of Cress's satellite and what it was like in there, because the book didn't spend too long in there and I was really looking forward to seeing 'Rapunzel's tower', if you know what I mean. I thought that being named the title of the book, Cress wasn't there that much, but I understand that this is not really just about her but about the people and the plot that's going on around her and how she plays a part in it; I thought she had a very small personality compared with the other characters, but that didn't make me love her any less since she was so sweet and understanding towards everyone and really smart too and I think she's my favourite out of Cinder, her and Scarlett in that she has a lot more award moments and is socially impaired compared with the others, making her more relatable. I mentioned this before but I love Thorne as a character, him being the real joker of the whole crew; we saw, a few times in 'Scarlett', that Thorne can be kind, caring and understanding behind his almost hateful selfishness and arrogance, but this side of him really comes out in 'Cress' and I love how he is kind of letting that arrogant side of him go down a little, showing how he's actually a really nice person underneath. I though Cinder in this one was aw-some, seriously; she was the leader, she had powers, she had skills and she was also pretty funny. About 80% of the time, I got annoyed with Kai, even thought I thought he had some of the best character development moments; he always did the worst decisions and - even though you can understand why - everything inside you screams at you to not marry that retched queen! I thought Wolf was really al lot more sweet and gentle in this book but by all means is still as tough as nails and there are a few times when he has really scary moments when you think he might hit someone; but I thought he was really sweet when he was with Scarlett (in the little time he was with Scarlett). I thought Scarlett was a lot more likable in 'Cress' and I could really see how Cinder and Scarlett could become really good friends. I am still in love with Iko as a character and I really liked how Iko built a relationship with Cress even though Cress is so shy. I think I liked all the sections where Cress and Thorne were pretty much alone together, but I think my favourite one is when Cress explains to Thorne how her life has been up until this point and what it was like when she was a child. But I think my very favourite moment in 'Cress' was right at the end, the last section from Cress's point of view in the ship where Thorne and Cress talk about destiny and about themselves and other things like that. I also liked it when Thorne's first comment on seeing Cress is "is that all hair?" (very funny!). I think that my favourite couple - out of the three we've seen so far - is a thigh between Scarlett and Wold or Cress and Throne and personally I think they are more interesting than Cinder and Kai. I also feel like there's this thing going on with Cinder and Thorne in that they have some kind of a love-hate relationship where it is mostly Cinder who does the hating. I did like how the book ends and it leaves us with us being able to go get up to Lunar and go get Princess Winter. Great plot, great characters, I cried near the end and I have fallen in love with everything about this series! I just can't wait to find out what happens next in Winter!

Libro en inglés, pasta blanda sin sobrecubierta. Es el 3ero de la saga, de igual manera es el más grande de los 4.

La saga continua sin bajar el nivel, al contrario, mejora con el avance de la trama y la incorporación de personajes, o mejor dicho, al ganar mayor protagonismo personajes ya conocidos, porque Cress, la versión de Rapunzel de esta historia ya tuvo una breve aparición en la historia. Aquí se incorporan muchos de los elementos del cuento original con una vuelta de tuerca que se adapta a la narración de forma creíble, y también se puede decir que la versión de Disney ha dejado su huella. En resumen, una lectura muy recomendable para los que les gusta los dos primeros libros, porque la acción no decae y los personajes te enamorarán.

Admittedly when I first heard about Marissa's "Lunar Chronicles" series I was skeptical- it sounded like there was way too random plot elements tossed into a 400 page YA book than could possibly ever work. However, when I actually delved into the world of "Cinder", I quickly learned that that was anything but the case. It's sequel, "Scarlet", was an even stronger book, if possible, and hands down one of my most favourite books of 2013 (featuring one of my most favourite YA couples EVER, Wolf and Scarlet). Therefore, as you can imagine, when it came time for "Cress" I did everything in my power to get my hands on a copy- and, again, I was anything but disappointed. I think that the biggest strength of these books, this book especially, is how seamless and effortless they appear when you know that that is anything but the case for author Marissa Meyer. It is truly mindblowing how many classical fairytales she has woven together- and done so from the very first book, dropping Easter eggs, so to speak, all along the way (for instance, briefly introducing Cress and making mention of Winter in "Cinder"). Furthermore, while there are a number of fairytale retellings in YA, especially as of late, I think that Marissa's stand out from the bunch, as she has truly made each of them her own. Another strength of this book is it's pacing, after reading it it truly felt as if I had read four books instead of one, simply because of everything that happened in it. That being said, not once while reading it did I ever find myself overwhelmed, instead, being intrigued the entire way and flipping through the pages as quickly as I possibly could to see what sort of situation my favourite cast of characters would get into next. On the note of characters, you would think that with so many main characters in one book that they wouldn't get as much attention that they deserve in the way of development, but that is anything but the case- they have as many differences than they do similarities- from Cinder, to Cress, to Scarlet, to Iko, to Thorne, and on. The only real complaint about is this book is that I wish that Scarlet had played a larger role in it- though what little role she did play in this book managed to bring on the FEELS that I so desperately wanted between her and Wolf after their book. Furthermore, this book was, like the others, a fair bit predictable, however, I am was happy with this fact because it means that much of the theories that I had thought of about the series were true! All in all, there's no questioning it- Marissa Meyer is one of the most ingenious and unique YA authors that we've seen in quite some time, she never ceases to amaze me with her ever-growing skills and abilities. Though I only recently read this book, I know that I will be rereading it soon because I can't bear to be away from these character/ world for too long! Furthe

Assolutamente fantastico, soprattutto grazie al fatto che riconoscersi in Cress è facilissimo (e la sua cotta colossale per Thorne è troppo dolce). Cress e Thorne sono decisamente la mia coppia preferita delle Cronache lunari, non vedo l'ora di vedere come risolveranno le cose tra loro in Winter. In breve: Cinder continua a essere una super badass, Cinder e Thorne sono una delle mie brotp preferite, Kai continua a non capire niente e Wolf, Scarlet e Winter fanno di cognome Mai una gioia.