{Cover Wars} Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Hello guys and welcome to another edition of cover wars where this week we will be shacking thing up a little, you see we always compare books that have had a cover make over but this week we will look at the same but only that it will be compared by an international edition. This week's contender is Marissa Meyer's very own Cinder! Let’s take a look at the book blurb shall we?

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . 

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

Now that we are all on the same page shall we take a look at our international contenders? In the right corner we have the cover that started it all; with a red shinny slipper we have the original Cinder cover!!

On the left corner with the charisma of the beautiful cyborg girl sitting alone in the dark with just one glass slipper at foot, it’s been used in the Spanish edition and what I am led to believe is the Polish edition of Cinder!!

Now guys I must confess it’s the original edition of Cinder that made me read the book, but the international edition we see hear stole my heart.

The original cover is an allusive temptress with a clue of the book, a beautiful cover for a really good retelling of Cinderella. The red slipper calls out to you and there is no doubt about which story we are talking about, even before you read the book you have an idea of what it’s going to be about.

On the other hand the second cover is as  little bit more direct but it also gives the feel that Cinder will get up at any moment and head out to do what she must, I may not be able to see her face but I can imagine what she is thinking, what she must do. But I’m also conscious that if you haven’t read the book it is hard to imagine her that way. If I had no idea what this book was about I would find myself drawn to the beautiful dress and the curious about how this person lost her slipper I would find myself wondering how this cover and the way this book starts collide.

What about you guys? How do you think each cover translates? 

{Arc Review} Scarlet by Marissa Meyers

Series: The Lunar Chronicles #2

Publication Date: February 5, 2013

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends (MacMillan)

ISBN-13: 97803126429669

Synopsis

Cinderella has left the ball

Her metal foot lies on the floor

Besides it a prince with a broken heart

and an evil queen ready to get what she wants

On the other side of the world

A red hooded girl has her own problems of her own

Her grandmother's gone missing

For secrets they say she's been keeping

Can red riding hood trust the Wolf?

Or will she be eaten before she figures things out?

The faith of the Earth is being played here

The main pieces are assembling

Sides are being chosen,

But can all the alliances be made

Before Earth finds herself doomed?

Review

I know that that wasn’t a typical review, it just came out that way and I liked it and I hope you enjoyed it too.

Scarlet is a great follow up to Cinder. “Scarlet” is more about Cinder and Scarlet finding themselves in two different situations that will end up colliding into one story. Cinder is running away after the big bomb that Dr. Erland while Scarlet is trying to find her grandmother even when the police gave up she will do whatever she can to find the woman that raised her.

In this book we see the world of the Lunar Chronicles expand to what seems to be only a glimpse of what is to come, we see Cinder back away from the connection she has with the characters around her and at times also with the reader, we see that she needs time to understand everything that has happened to her, will happen and who she wants to be.

On Cinder most of the things where up to a certain point predictable, with these two stories matching up most of the predictability is taken out of the equation and you are left to enjoy the ride while you let the author drive you into this wonderful story.

If I could ask for something I would have asked to feel more connected to the characters in this book, the characters are interesting but there just seemed to be interesting people I was reading not people that I could feel their pains, their sorrows and happiness.

Still Marissa Meyers tells the story makes you feel like spending time with a friend you can relax, the way she describes the events that are happening makes you get lost in a world you can actually close your eyes and see and left face it Marissa Meyer can surely make villains that will have your teeth grinding every time you read them.

By the way guys, am I the only one that thinks that this series would make an excellent Manga and Anime adaptation?

I hope this review hasn’t spoiled Scarlet for you in any way and that you decide to read and enjoy this book as I did.

Rating:

If you liked Ever After: A Cinderella Story, then read Cinder by Marissa Meyer

There is just this weird appeal to retellings, maybe it is the comfort of knowing what is going to happen, the possibility of re-exploring a world we think we know, the pleasure of spending more time with characters we like or the idea of seeing the story we loved through someone else's eyes.

A good retelling goes beyond a guilty pleasure, especially if we get to enjoy strong heroines, breaking the cycle of the "damsel in distress" they might need help but they will not wait for their beloved prince to come to the rescue and if need be they will get their hands dirty.

That is the thing that I love about both "Ever After" and "Cinder" our heroines are strong, they might find themselves in situations slightly or completely different then the Grimm brothers stories or the Disney version but they will fight but they will also try to make smart decisions based on the information they know and even if who they are doesn't fit the society's mold they will not change how they are just to please others.

Title: Ever After: A Cinderella Story

Director: Andy Tennants

Stars: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, and Patrick Godfrey.

Release Date: July 29, 1998

Before her father died both Daniel and him where happy, they missed Daniel's mother but they had one another.

One day Daniel's father Auguste decides that the best thing he can do for his daughter is to give her a mother to give his dearest tomboy in the right direction.

Sadly after Auguste's death Daniel is demoted into a servant working all day and falling asleep by the chimney while she tries to read the books her father left behind, even if that means waking up covered in cinders.

A faithful encounter with prince Henry start a series of events turn Daniel's life upside down and into a future she would have never dared to imagine.

Title: Cinder

Series: The Lunar Chronicles #1

Author: Marissa Meyer

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends (Macmillan)

Release Date: January 3, 2012

In New Beijing leaves a girl named Cinder, a girl who turns out to be the city’s best mechanic. Even if she is the best she is nothing more than a second class citizen a fact her stepmother never lets her forget, she will never let her forget that she isn’t 100% a girl nor the fact that she owns her.

Cinder’s world starts to shift the day that Prince Kai asks her to fix her robot and her dearest stepsister gets sick with the plague that has reached pandemic levels and no cure is known.

One thing leads to another and Cinder ends up in the middle of an intergalactic struggle between Earth and the lunar Queen Levana, Cinder will have to have faith and do what she can to save those that never spared her a second glance.

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