Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Cinder’s Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding!

Cinder's Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding! by Marissa Meyer

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I loved choose your own adventure books as a kid. To this day I wish I had kept them. My dad was great on getting me books where you were just a kid wandering in a forest and somehow got yanked into a different dimension. I also died every single time. Apparently I made poor choices as a kid. This choose your adventure starring Cinder from the Lunar Chronicles is so cool. “Cinder’s Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding!” follows Cinder who is about to […]

This Lunar Chronicles short story collection is for hardcore fans and people who wanted an epilogue to Winter.

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A fun little book, but some of the stories were weak, and a couple were just  schmoopsy fanservice. Hardcore fans will really love this, though. If this collection is anything to judge her by, short stories aren’t really Meyer’s forte. Most of the stories in this collection were just “meh.” The standout stories for me were “The Little Android,” which is her version of The Little Mermaid story, following the Hans Christian Andersen version more than the Disney-fied one. It was well written and sad […]

You stumbled on the finish line there, Marissa

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

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The thing about sequels, or any book that comes after the first in a series, is that you’re never quite sure how they’re going to stack up to the first. Obviously, the first was good enough to get you to come back for more, but will it be as you remembered? Will the characters and story not only hold up, but progress? That’s the tricky part, I think. Sequels have to be better, have to push the story further along and really get you invested. […]

I’ve seen so many planets dancing

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Poor Cress, man. In “The Lunar Chronicles,” Cress is our Rapunzel — locked away in a satellite orbiting Earth, performing high-tech intelligence operations under coercion by her Lunar mistress, who happens to be the chief aide to the evil Lunar Queen. So it could be said that Cress is the most important VIP whose political influence could never buy her own personal autonomy. Cress and our heroine of the long arc, Cinder, first crossed paths when Cinder intercepted classified data hidden by Cress in a […]



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