#tbt: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

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Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Lunar Chronicles Volume 1. 400 p. Feiwel + Friends/ Macmillan Publishers, January, 2012. 9780312641894. (Own.)

Happy Thursday TMS Readers! #tbt features Cinder by Marissa Meyer. As I wrote up my review of Gilded for this week's Teen Tuesday post, I happened to look up Cinder to check to see if I was remembering correctly that it was Ms. Meyer's debut. I saw that it was, and has been out for ten years ago this month. Easy to plan #tbt this week!

Cinder is the best mechanic in New Beijing, hands down, but she's also a cyborg and they are shunned and discriminated against. No one treats her worse than her own stepmother and one of her two stepsisters. She's flustered when Prince Kai brings his broken droid into her stall for repair. He's under pressure to marry Levana, queen of the Moon as his father negotiates with her for a cure to Letimosis, a dreaded plague. Kai and Nainsi have been searching for the Moon's lost heir, Princess Selene when Nainsi malfunctioned.

This sci-fi, Cinderella mash-up is quite enjoyable. It's fast-paced, there's quite a lot of intrigue and a little bit of romance in a vividly created world. It ends on a cliff-hanger, but luckily, readers can move right on to the second installment, Scarlet, without waiting. Happy reading!