So this is definitely my favorite of the three Lunar Chronicles novels I’ve read so far (spoiler alert: I started reading Winter, got bored, started reading something else, and then the book was due back at the library, so I still haven’t finished the series. I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it, I just checked out SO MANY NEW BOOKS.) Anyway. Cress! Like Cinder and Scarlet before it, Cress is based on a fairy tale. In this case, Rapunzel, which has always been one […]
The characters and story were fine. The editing? Not so much.
Now that Bunnybean is tearing her way through the Lunar Chronicles books, I figured I might as well try and finish up the last book (I don’t count the new book of “related short stories” that just came out), Winter. I wasn’t all that excited about reading it, to be honest. I loved Cinder and Scarlet, and really liked Cress. And then I read Fairest. And I despised it. It really almost ruined the entire series for me. It was so heavy-handed and annoying, I […]
Cress, Cress, let down your hair!
I’m still so far behind in my reviews, I’m starting to get anxious about it. We are leaving for a month-long vacation next week, and I just might not be able to get a chance to say everything I want and need to say. Sorry that these next few might not get the detail that they deserve 🙁 Even thought it feels like ages ago, I think it was only about two weeks ago that I finished Cress. For those that don’t know (which, really, […]
Space Rapunzel is a socially mal-adjusted hacker and I love her.
“When she was just a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.” Guys, I can’t give out another five star rating this year. I just can’t. But I almost did with this anyway. It was THISCLOSE. I’m going with 4.5 stars for now, but I reserve the right to change my mind upon re-read. I just really really enjoyed myself while reading this, probably more than I should have. Cress, the third volume of The Lunar Chronicles, is […]
Cress’ tower is a satellite. She has no way to let down her hair.
4.5 stars This is the third book in a series, and I would strongly recommend you don’t start with this one. This review will contain minor spoilers for Cinder, the first book in the series and Scarlet, the second book, so if you’ve not read them, go read them first. This review will be here when you’re done. Crescent Moon, or Cress, as she’d prefer to be called, has spent the last seven years all alone on a satellite orbiting Earth, monitoring communications for the Lunar government and […]