Fairest
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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