Marissa Meyer
This fourth installment in the Lunar Chronicles was a short novel, almost more of a novella. Though the book was 150 pages long, the story is only 113 pages, with a excerpt from the next novel, Winter, at the end. Obviously disappointing! For this novel, we are thrown back in time to when Queen Levana was Princess Levana. The novel opens to her parents dying and her sister being crowned as Queen. It was a great look at the background of a queen that we know as an evil dictator. She wasn't always the person that we have come to know in the first two books of the Lunar Chronicles. Though it was a letdown that we didn't hear more of the story of Cinder and her crew of misfits, it was fascinating to see how a villain becomes the person we all hate. This prequel could even be read before the other three books without it giving away too many important details from Cinder, Scarlet, or Cress To hear the final installment of Cinders story, we have to wait until the fall. This is a good novella to tide fans over, but definitely leaves the reader wanting more.
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